In this Issue

Table of Contents

Hey, I Still Can’t See Myself!: The Difficult Positioning of Two-Spirit Identities in YA Literature

Robert Bittner
pp. 11-22
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2014.0040
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The Invisibility of Lesbian Mother Families in the South Australian Premier’s Reading Challenge

Damien Riggs, Scott Hanson-Easey
pp. 23-33
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2014.0024
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What a Shame! Gay Shame in Isabelle Holland’s The Man Without a Face

Anne Stebbins
pp. 34-42
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2014.0027
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Sexual Slipstreams and the Limits of Magic Realism: Why a Bisexual Cinderella May Not Be All That “Queer”

Jon Michael Wargo
pp. 43-50
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2014.0030
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“A girl. A machine. A freak”: A Consideration of Contemporary Queer Composites

Jennifer Mitchell
pp. 51-62
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2014.0033
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A Doctor for Who(m)?: Queer Temporalities and the Sexualized Child

Adrianne Wadewitz, Mica Hilson
pp. 63-76
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2014.0036
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Celebrating the Margins: Families and Gender in the Work of the Swedish Picturebook Artist Pija Lindenbaum

Lydia Kokkola, Mia Österlund
pp. 77-82
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2014.0039
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Identifying Effective Trans* Novels for Adolescent Readers

Mary Catherine Miller
pp. 83-86
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2014.0042
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The Queer Art of Failure by Judith Halberstam (review)

Lydia Kokkola
pp. 87-88
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2014.0026
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Fictions of Adolescent Carnality: Sexy Sinners and Delinquent Deviants by Lydia Kokkola (review)

Laura Robinson
pp. 88-89
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2014.0029
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An allen Fronten: Kriege und politische Konflikte in Kinder- und Jugendmedien by Ingrid Tomkowiak (review)

Ines Galling
pp. 90-92
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2014.0032
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The Child Reader, 1700–1840 by Matthew O. Grenby (review)

Nikola von Merveldt
pp. 92-94
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2014.0035
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La littérature de jeunesse migrante: récits d’immigration de l’Algérie à la France by Anne Schneider (review)

Sibylle Weingart
pp. 94-95
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2014.0038
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Ehon Sakka to Iu Shigoto (review)

Fumiko Ganzenmüller, Junko Yokota
pp. 96-97
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2014.0041
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Focus IBBY

Elizabeth Page
pp. 99-111
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2014.0025
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Editorial

Roxanne Harde
pp. iii-iv
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2014.0028
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Queerness and Children’s Literature: Embracing the Negative

Laura Robinson
pp. v-x
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2014.0034
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Postcards

Sylvia Vardell, Samantha Christensen, Taylor Kraayenbrink, Melek Ortabasi, Tia Lalani, Doris Audet, Tülin Kozikoglu, Melissa Garavini
pp. x-111
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2014.0031
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The Biggest Loser: Mercer Mayer’s Little Critter Series, the Queer Art of Failure, and the American Obsession with Achievement

Michelle Ann Abate
pp. 1-10
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2014.0037
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