The Looking Glass: New Perspectives on Children's Books is an electronic journal about children's literature. The site was launched April 2, 1997 -- International Children's Book Day. As our name suggests, we combine an interest in the traditional with an eye to the modern. Our readers and contributors are academics, librarians, teachers, parents and anyone else fascinated by the world of children's literature.
This journal is published by a small group of volunteers. Our expertise includes writing, editing, teaching, publishing, librarianship -- all the various aspects of children's books and literature. In the beginning, our parent organization was the Toronto Centre for the Study of Children's Literature (TCSCL), then housed at the Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto, now at York University. From 1 July 1998, however, The Looking Glass was independent of any institutional support. In July 2007 La Trobe University in Australia began providing hosting and technical support, utilising the OJS open access journal system.
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| The Looking Glass welcomes new submissions of possible articles. Just send them to editor@the-looking-glass.net |
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You can find the old Looking Glass site at
http://tlg.ninthwonder.com/
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Vol 13, No 3 (2009)
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Frame of Reference
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David Beagley |
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Alice's Academy
| Revealing Discrimination: Social Hierarchy and the Exclusion/Enslavement of the Other in the Harry Potter Novels |
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Amy M Green |
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Emerging Voices
| The Sorcerer’s Stone, Mirror of Erised, and Horcruxes: Choice, Individuality, and Authenticity in Harry Potter |
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Nichole LeFebvre |
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Jabberwocky
| Expelliarmus!: Retaliation and peaceable outcomes in the Harry Potter series. |
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Janet Iafrate |
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| Oliver Twisted: the origins of Lord Voldemort in the Dickensian orphan. |
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James Washick |
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Curiouser and Curiouser
| Review: The Crossover Novel: contemporary children's fiction and its adult readership |
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| Review: Public School Literature, Civic Education and the Politics of Male Adolescence |
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The Caucus Race
| Conferences, announcements, websites and paper calls |
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The Looking Glass: new perspectives on children's literature
ISBN 1551-5680
