Research and Dissertations

Vermin Rehabilitated: Of Mice and Rats in Children’s Literature

Children with No Boundaries: Apartheid in Beverley Naidoo’s Novels

Thirteen Papery Layers: Irony, Metafiction, Incongruity in Lemony Snicket’s "A Series of Unfortunate Events"

Grannies and Ageism in Roald Dahl’s "The Witches" and David Walliams’s "Gangsta Granny"

The Sadness of Mango Street: Gender and Ethnicity in Sandra Cisnero’s Work

Innovation, Metafiction and Feminist Empowerment in Web-based Fairy Tales

Roald Dahl and the Writing Factory: Tremendous Ways of Keeping Children Fascinated

World of David Walliams: Lonely Children Redeemed by Humour and Grotesque

Comic Books and their Use to Enhance the Children’s Literacy and Communication Development

Healing Gardens and Prosthetic Trumpets: F. Hosdson Burnett’s "The Secret Garden" and E. B. White’s "The Trumpet of the Swan"

R. J. Palacio "Wonder": Dealing with Diference

The Totalitarian World of Kathryn Lasky’s "The Guardians of Ga’houle"

Identity, the Double and the Other Mother in Neil Gaiman’s "Coraline"

Gypsies - Perennial Outcasts in Childrens’ Literature

"Diary of a Wimpy Kid": Genre, Inferiority, Translation, Popularity