Engagements with Children's and Young Adult Literature (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781032581996)

Lydia Kokkola is a Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Oulu, Finland. She has worked on fiction portraying the Holocaust, sexuality in YA fiction, literature set in Sápmi ('Lapland') and a range of projects related to reading in a second language. Her current interests focus on plant sentience in CYA literature.

Sara Van den Bossche is Assistant Professor of Youth Cultures at Tilburg University, the Netherlands. Her main interests are queer, feminist, ethnic-cultural, and cognitive criticism, canonisation, and adaptation. She has contributed chapters to The Routledge Companion to Children's Literature and Culture (2023) and The Oxford Handbook of Young Adult Literature (2011).