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Although it should be said that children’s and young adult scholars have largely ignored work being done on literary cartography related to adult fiction.
Our discussion here focuses primarily on scholarship in English, but there is also relevant work being undertaken by scholars in other languages.
On this, see, for example, Aaron Drummond and Michael Tlauka (2010).
Ryan’s notion is given at least some credence by the experiment conducted by Paul V. Crawford and Frank W. Day (1982), albeit with older readers.
Examples include Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell’s Edge Chronicles series (https://www.randomhouse.com/kids/edgechronicles/index.php?p=explore) and Cressida Cowell’s How to Train Your Dragon series (http://www.howtotrainyourdragonbooks.com), both of which have maps in the books, but also have online interactive versions of these maps.
For more information about this project, visit their website: http://www.literaturatlas.eu/en/.
To date, children’s and young adult literature scholars have tended to focus on the same few maps. In fairness, experience suggests part of the reason for this lies in obtaining copyright permissions.
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Anthony Pavlik has a PhD in children’s literature and has published on children’s and young adult literature topics including maps, spatiality and ecocriticism. He co-edited, with David Rudd, the special issue of Children’s Literature Association Quarterly on Jacqueline Rose, and he is an editorial board member of Children’s Literature in Education.
Hazel Sheeky Bird received her PhD from Newcastle University in 2012 and is the author of Class, Leisure and National Identity in British Children’s Literature, 1918–1950 (Palgrave, 2014). She has also written on Tolkien’s The Hobbit (Palgrave, New Casebook, 2013) and children’s maritime literature and culture.
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Pavlik, A., Bird, H.S. Introduction: Maps and Mapping in Children’s and Young Adult Literature. Child Lit Educ 48, 1–5 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10583-016-9303-5
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