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		<title>Maastricht 2013</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The IRSCL Board has decided that the 2013 IRSCL Congress will be held in Maastricht, our first Congress in the Netherlands. Look for further information on this site. The convenor of the Congress is Lies Wesseling, Maastricht University.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irscl.com/president/2010/07/maastricht-2013/</link>
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		<title>IRSCL Congress in Brisbane</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the Paper Call and information about the 2011 IRSCL Congress in Brisbane, please go to the Congress website: http://irscl2011.com/]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irscl.com/president/2010/07/irscl-congress-in-brisbane/</link>
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		<title>Review &#8211; Acts of Reading. Teachers, Texts and Childhood</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Acts of Reading. Teachers, Texts and Childhood. Edited by Morag Styles and Evelyn Arizpe. Stoke-on-Trent, Sterling: Trentham Books, 2009. v +244 pages. USD 34.95 (paperback). This book gathers papers initially given at an international conference in 2007, which originated in the discovery of the so-called “Jane Johnson archive” in Indiana. As indicated by M. Spenser’s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irscl.com/president/2010/05/review-acts-of-reading-teachers-texts-and-childhood/</link>
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		<title>Review &#8211; Shakespeare as Children’s Literature: Edwardian Retellings in Words and Pictures</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Shakespeare as Children’s Literature: Edwardian Retellings in Words and Pictures. Velma Bourgeois Richmond. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2008. 363 pages. USD 35.00 (paperback). In their Preface to Tales From Shakespeare (1807), Charles and Mary Lamb engage in a complex dialectic with some twenty plays by Shakespeare that serve curiously as both the point of departure for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irscl.com/president/2010/05/review-shakespeare-as-children%e2%80%99s-literature-edwardian-retellings-in-words-and-pictures/</link>
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		<title>Review &#8211; Representations of Technology in Science Fiction for Young People</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Representations of Technology in Science Fiction for Young People. Noga Applebaum. New York: Routledge, 2010. 187 pages. £80 (hardback). Noga Applebaum’s contribution to Routledge’s Children’s Literature and Culture series offers an insightful new angle from which to explore constructions of childhood in literature for young readers. The study is motivated by her concern that the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irscl.com/president/2010/05/review-representations-of-technology-in-science-fiction-for-young-people/</link>
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		<title>Review &#8211; Frigjord oskuld. Heterosexuellt mognadsimperativ i svensk ungdomsroman</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Frigjord oskuld. Heterosexuellt mognadsimperativ i svensk ungdomsroman [Empowered Innocence. The heterosexual Developmental Imperative in Swedish Young Adult Fiction]. Mia Franck. Åbo: Åbo Akademi University Press, 2009. 322 pages. 27€ (paperback). Ever since 1906, when Finland was the first European nation to grant women the right to vote, women’s rights have been at the centre of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irscl.com/president/2010/03/review-frigjord-oskuld-heterosexuellt-mognadsimperativ-i-svensk-ungdomsroman/</link>
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		<title>Review &#8211; Public School Literature, Civic Education and the Politics of Male Adolescence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Public School Literature, Civic Education and the Politics of Male Adolescence. Jenny Holt. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008. 270 pages. £55 (hardback). In her exploration of the dynamic between public school literature, male adolescence and citizenship, Jenny Holt proposes the public school story as a source through which to examine developing ideas about adolescence and citizenship. She [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irscl.com/president/2010/03/review-public-school-literature-civic-education-and-the-politics-of-male-adolescence/</link>
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		<title>Review &#8211; Conceptualizing Cruelty to Children in Nineteenth-Century England. Literature, Representation, and the NSPCC</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Conceptualizing Cruelty to Children in Nineteenth-Century England. Literature, Representation, and the NSPCC. Monica Flegel. Farnham: Ashgate, 2009. 208 pages. 55£ (hardback). “Couple try to sell baby son for £20.” “Drunken mum jailed over baby death.” “Teen admits squirting bleach over mother after Harry Potter film.” “Parents of disabled girl found hanged are charged with child [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irscl.com/president/2010/03/review-conceptualizing-cruelty-to-children-in-nineteenth-century-england-literature-representation-and-the-nspcc/</link>
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		<title>Review &#8211; Facets of Children’s Literature Research: Collected and Revised Writings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[﻿Facets of Children’s Literature Research: Collected and Revised Writings. Göte Klingberg. Stockholm: Swedish Institute for Children’s Books, 2008. 197 pages. E-book. It is inspiring to read a work by someone who dedicated his life to children’s literature research. In this e-book, Göte Klingberg offers numerous reflections collected from various papers and presentations in order to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.irscl.com/president/2010/03/review-facets-of-children%e2%80%99s-literature-research-collected-and-revised-writings/</link>
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		<title>Review &#8211; Critical Approaches to Food in Children’s Literature</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Keeling, Kara K. and Pollard, Scott T. (eds) Critical Approaches to Food in Children’s Literature, New York &#38; London: Routledge, 2009. 276pp. 0 415 96366 4 This is an excellent contribution to what has increasingly been called “food studies” – a discipline that for many might be viewed as curiously as “child studies.” Bring the [...]]]></description>
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