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  1. Envisaging “Our” Nation: Politicized Affects in Minority Language Literature

    Article • Children s Literature in Education, November 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Lydia Kokkola

  2. The Disgust that Fascinates: Sibling Incest as a Bad Romance

    Article • Sexuality & Culture, October 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Lydia Kokkola

  3. Why I No Longer Work with Holocaust Literature

    Article • Religious Studies and Theology, August 2016, Equinox Publishing

    Professor Lydia Kokkola

  4. Becoming Native? The Wisdom of Plants in Margarita Engle'sThe Surrender Tree

    Article • International Research in Children s Literature, July 2016, Edinburgh University Press

    Professor Lydia Kokkola

  5. This is a discussion of truthfulness in life writing in relation to the poetry of Robert Kroetsch

    Article • English Studies, June 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Lydia Kokkola

  6. An ‘Invisibling’ view of a Northern Landscape: Inga Borg’s Plupp Series

    Article • Bookbird A Journal of International Children s Literature, January 2016, Project Muse

    Professor Lydia Kokkola

  7. The Mighty Child: Time and Power in Children's Literature. Clémentine Beauvais. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2015. 209 pages.

    Article • International Research in Children s Literature, December 2015, Edinburgh University Press

    Professor Lydia Kokkola

  8. Children's Literature and Learner Empowerment: Children and Teenagers in English Language Education . Janice Bland. London, New Delhi, New York and Sydney: Bloomsbury, 2013. 298 pages.

    Article • International Research in Children s Literature, July 2015, Edinburgh University Press

    Professor Lydia Kokkola

  9. Beyond Human: Escaping the Maze of Anthropocentrism in Peter Dickinson’s Eva

    Article • Bookbird A Journal of International Children s Literature, January 2015, Project Muse

    Professor Lydia Kokkola

  10. Eleanor H. Porter’s Pollyanna: A Children’s Classic at 100 ed. by Roxanne Harde, Lydia Kokkola

    Article • Children s Literature Association Quarterly, January 2015, Project Muse

    Professor Lydia Kokkola

  11. Eleanor H. Porter's Pollyanna

    Article • November 2014, University Press of Mississippi

    Professor Lydia Kokkola

  12. Glad to be 100: The Making of a Children’s Classic

    Article • November 2014, University Press of Mississippi

    Professor Lydia Kokkola

  13. Resisting Focalisation, Gaining Empathy: Swedish Teenagers Read Irish Fiction

    Article • Children s Literature in Education, October 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Lydia Kokkola

  14. Fictions of Adolescent Carnality: Sexy Sinners and Delinquent Deviants. Lydia Kokkola. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2013. 236 pages.

    Article • International Research in Children s Literature, July 2014, Edinburgh University Press

    Professor Lydia Kokkola

  15. The smell of an impossible dream: Dallas, migration, and creative failure in Angie Cruz’s Let It Rain Coffee

    Article • The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, June 2014, SAGE Publications

    Professor Lydia Kokkola

  16. John Burningham: United Kingdom ⋆ Illustrator

    Article • Bookbird A Journal of International Children s Literature, January 2014, Project Muse

    Professor Lydia Kokkola

  17. Make Yourself At Home! Adolescents in Search of the Queer Spaces of Home

    Article • Barnboken, January 2014, The Swedish Institute for Children's Books

    Professor Lydia Kokkola

  18. Fictions of Adolescent Carnality: Sexy Sinners and Delinquent Deviants by Lydia Kokkola

    Article • Children s Literature Association Quarterly, January 2014, Project Muse

    Professor Lydia Kokkola

  19. The Queer Art of Failure by Judith Halberstam

    Article • Bookbird A Journal of International Children s Literature, January 2014, Project Muse

    Professor Lydia Kokkola

  20. Imaginative Spaces and Emotional Depth in the Works of John Burningham

    Article • Bookbird A Journal of International Children s Literature, January 2014, Project Muse

    Professor Lydia Kokkola

  21. Finnish Child Language and Culture in Sweden: An Original Luleå Story

    Article • Bookbird A Journal of International Children s Literature, January 2014, Project Muse

    Professor Lydia Kokkola

  22. Celebrating the Margins: Families and Gender in the Work of the Swedish Picturebook Artist Pija Lindenbaum

    Article • Bookbird A Journal of International Children s Literature, January 2014, Project Muse

    Professor Lydia Kokkola

  23. Fictions of Adolescent Carnality: Sexy Sinners and Delinquent Deviants by Lydia Kokkola

    Article • Bookbird A Journal of International Children s Literature, January 2014, Project Muse

    Professor Lydia Kokkola

  24. Fictions of Adolescent Carnality: Sexy Sinners and Delinquent Deviants by Lydia Kokkola

    Article • The Lion and the Unicorn, January 2014, Project Muse

    Professor Lydia Kokkola

  25. Narrative Pleasures in Young Adult Novels, Films, and Video Games. Margaret Mackey. Houndmills, Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. 237 pages.

    Article • International Research in Children s Literature, December 2013, Edinburgh University Press

    Professor Lydia Kokkola

  26. Representing the Holocaust in Children's Literature

    Article • October 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Lydia Kokkola

  27. Learning to read politically: narratives of hope and narratives of despair inPushby Sapphire

    Article • Cambridge Journal of Education, September 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Lydia Kokkola

  28. Review of a collected volume on Literary Community Making

    Article • European Journal of English Studies, August 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Lydia Kokkola

  29. Fictions of Adolescent Carnality

    Article • May 2013, John Benjamins

    Professor Lydia Kokkola

  30. Introduction

    Article • Bookbird A Journal of International Children s Literature, January 2013, Project Muse

    Professor Lydia Kokkola

  31. Reading Multilingual Literature: The Bilingual Brain and Literacy Education

    Article • Bookbird A Journal of International Children s Literature, January 2013, Project Muse

    Professor Lydia Kokkola

  32. Postcards

    Article • Bookbird A Journal of International Children s Literature, January 2013, Project Muse

    Professor Lydia Kokkola

  33. Multicultural Literature and the Use of Literature in Multicultural Education in Finland

    Article • Bookbird A Journal of International Children s Literature, January 2013, Project Muse

    Professor Lydia Kokkola

  34. "Who Does What to Whom and How": "Knowing Children" and Depictions of Prostitution in Anglophone Young Adult Literature

    Article • Children s Literature Association Quarterly, January 2013, Project Muse

    Professor Lydia Kokkola

  35. Editorial

    Article • Bookbird A Journal of International Children s Literature, January 2012, Project Muse

    Professor Lydia Kokkola

  36. Monica Pelz: Austria ★ Author

    Article • Bookbird A Journal of International Children s Literature, January 2012, Project Muse

    Professor Lydia Kokkola

  37. Renate Habinger: Austria ★ Illustrator

    Article • Bookbird A Journal of International Children s Literature, January 2012, Project Muse

    Professor Lydia Kokkola

  38. Bart Moeyaert: Belgium ★ Author

    Article • Bookbird A Journal of International Children s Literature, January 2012, Project Muse

    Professor Lydia Kokkola

  39. Louis Joos: Belgium ★ Illustrator

    Article • Bookbird A Journal of International Children s Literature, January 2012, Project Muse

    Professor Lydia Kokkola

  40. Lene Kaaberbøl: Denmark ★ Author

    Article • Bookbird A Journal of International Children s Literature, January 2012, Project Muse

    Professor Lydia Kokkola

  41. Charlotte Pardi: Denmark ★ Illustrator

    Article • Bookbird A Journal of International Children s Literature, January 2012, Project Muse

    Professor Lydia Kokkola

  42. Virpi Talvitie: Finland ★ Illustrator

    Article • Bookbird A Journal of International Children s Literature, January 2012, Project Muse

    Professor Lydia Kokkola

  43. Paul Maar: Germany ★ Author

    Article • Bookbird A Journal of International Children s Literature, January 2012, Project Muse

    Professor Lydia Kokkola

  44. Rotraut Susanne Berner: Germany ★ Illustrator

    Article • Bookbird A Journal of International Children s Literature, January 2012, Project Muse

    Professor Lydia Kokkola

  45. Christos Boulotis: Greece ★ Author

    Article • Bookbird A Journal of International Children s Literature, January 2012, Project Muse

    Professor Lydia Kokkola

  46. Effie Lada: Greece ★ Illustrator

    Article • Bookbird A Journal of International Children s Literature, January 2012, Project Muse

    Professor Lydia Kokkola

  47. Bianca Pitzorno: Italy ★ Author

    Article • Bookbird A Journal of International Children s Literature, January 2012, Project Muse

    Professor Lydia Kokkola

  48. Francesco Tullio Altan: Italy ★ Illustrator

    Article • Bookbird A Journal of International Children s Literature, January 2012, Project Muse

    Professor Lydia Kokkola

  49. Masamoto Nasu: Japan ★ Author

    Article • Bookbird A Journal of International Children s Literature, January 2012, Project Muse

    Professor Lydia Kokkola

  50. Satoshi Kako: Japan ★ Illustrator

    Article • Bookbird A Journal of International Children s Literature, January 2012, Project Muse

    Professor Lydia Kokkola

  51. Sun-Mi Hwang: Korea ★ Author

    Article • Bookbird A Journal of International Children s Literature, January 2012, Project Muse

    Professor Lydia Kokkola

  52. Seong-Chan Hong: Korea ★ Illustrator

    Article • Bookbird A Journal of International Children s Literature, January 2012, Project Muse

    Professor Lydia Kokkola

  53. Anita Paegle: Latvia ★ Illustrator

    Article • Bookbird A Journal of International Children s Literature, January 2012, Project Muse

    Professor Lydia Kokkola

  54. Tonke Dragt: The Netherlands ★ Author

    Article • Bookbird A Journal of International Children s Literature, January 2012, Project Muse

    Professor Lydia Kokkola

  55. Bjørn Sortland: Norway ★ Author

    Article • Bookbird A Journal of International Children s Literature, January 2012, Project Muse

    Professor Lydia Kokkola

  56. Øyvind Torseter: Norway ★ Illustrator

    Article • Bookbird A Journal of International Children s Literature, January 2012, Project Muse

    Professor Lydia Kokkola

  57. Lennart Hellsing: Sweden ★ Author

    Article • Bookbird A Journal of International Children s Literature, January 2012, Project Muse

    Professor Lydia Kokkola

  58. Anna-Clara Tidholm: Sweden ★ Illustrator

    Article • Bookbird A Journal of International Children s Literature, January 2012, Project Muse

    Professor Lydia Kokkola

  59. Franz Hohler: Switzerland ★ Author

    Article • Bookbird A Journal of International Children s Literature, January 2012, Project Muse

    Professor Lydia Kokkola

  60. Kathrin Schärer: Switzerland ★ Illustrator

    Article • Bookbird A Journal of International Children s Literature, January 2012, Project Muse

    Professor Lydia Kokkola

  61. Philip Pullman: United Kingdom ★ Author

    Article • Bookbird A Journal of International Children s Literature, January 2012, Project Muse

    Professor Lydia Kokkola

  62. John Burningham: United Kingdom ★ Illustrator

    Article • Bookbird A Journal of International Children s Literature, January 2012, Project Muse

    Professor Lydia Kokkola

  63. Editorial

    Article • Bookbird A Journal of International Children s Literature, January 2012, Project Muse

    Professor Lydia Kokkola

  64. Sinikka and Tiina Nopola: Finland ★ Authors

    Article • Bookbird A Journal of International Children s Literature, January 2012, Project Muse

    Professor Lydia Kokkola

  65. Annemarie Van Haeringen: The Netherlands ★ Illustrator

    Article • Bookbird A Journal of International Children s Literature, January 2012, Project Muse

    Professor Lydia Kokkola

  66. Bookbird Editors

    Article • Bookbird A Journal of International Children s Literature, January 2012, Project Muse

    Professor Lydia Kokkola

  67. Irish Children's Literature and Culture: New Perspective on Contemporary Writing. Edited by Valerie Coghlan and Keith O'Sullivan. New York and London: Routledge, 2011. 196 pages. £80 (hardback).

    Article • International Research in Children s Literature, December 2011, Edinburgh University Press

    Professor Lydia Kokkola

  68. New Directions in Picturebook Research. Teresa Colomer, Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer, and Cecilia Silva-Díaz. New York and London: Routledge, 2010. 241 pages, £80 (hardback).

    Article • International Research in Children s Literature, July 2011, Edinburgh University Press

    Professor Lydia Kokkola

  69. Sparkling vampires: Valorizing self-harming behavior in Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series

    Article • Bookbird A Journal of International Children s Literature, January 2011, Project Muse

    Professor Lydia Kokkola

  70. Interpictorial Allusion and the Politics of "Looking Like" in Allison and Emma's Rug by Allen Say

    Article • Children s Literature Association Quarterly, January 2011, Project Muse

    Professor Lydia Kokkola

  71. Virtuous Vampires and Voluptuous Vamps: Romance Conventions Reconsidered in Stephenie Meyer’s “Twilight” Series

    Article • Children s Literature in Education, December 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Lydia Kokkola

  72. Metamorphosis in Two Novels by Melvin Burgess: Denying and Disguising ‘Deviant’ Desire

    Article • Children s Literature in Education, November 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Lydia Kokkola

  73. Power, Voice and Subjectivity in Literature for Young Readers. Maria Nikolajeva. New York: Routledge, 2010. 204 pages. £80 (hardback).

    Article • International Research in Children s Literature, July 2010, Edinburgh University Press

    Professor Lydia Kokkola

  74. The Family in English Children's Literature. Ser. Children's Literature and Culture. Ann Alston. London: Routledge, 2008. 139 pages. £60.00/76.00€ (hardback).

    Article • International Research in Children s Literature, July 2009, Edinburgh University Press

    Professor Lydia Kokkola

  75. Truthful (hi)stories in Michael Ondaatje’sAnil’s Ghost

    Article • January 2009, John Benjamins

    Professor Lydia Kokkola

  76. "Instruction with delight": The narrator's voice in John Newbery's early English children's books

    Article • January 2009, John Benjamins

    Professor Lydia Kokkola

  77. Letters to the Editors

    Article • Bookbird A Journal of International Children s Literature, January 2008, Project Muse

    Professor Lydia Kokkola

  78. The unspeakable

    Article • January 2002, John Benjamins

    Professor Lydia Kokkola

  79. Early immersion reading

    Article • January 2002, John Benjamins

    Professor Lydia Kokkola