This book offers insights into the typically overlooked perspectives of children and children's culture in Europe, North America and the Global South, and Australia during the period around the First World War, engaging with developments in Children's Literature, War Studies, and Education.
"The contributions to this impressive collection of essays address the role of literature, children's material culture, education and institutions in shaping children's perspectives, attitudes and morals during the Great War. (...) Children's Literature and Culture of the First World War, a volume that certainly deserves the serious attention of children's literature scholars." - Anja Müller, University of Siegen, Germany
"Ultimately, this timely and detailed study provides an important example of why children and childhood should be foregrounded in the study of war, and the insights that cna be gained by studying these themes in a transnational context." - Ashley Henrickson, Jeunesse, 9.2, 2017
