The early reader in children's literature and culture: theorizing books for beginning readers

From The New England primer to The cat in the hat: big steps in the growth and development of early readers / Ramona Caponegro

The boxcar children and The box-car children: the rewriting of Gertrude Chandler Warner's classic and the origins of the early reader / Michelle Ann Abate

Creating and marketing early reader picture books / Rebekah Fitzsimmons

The end?: approaches to closure in early readers / Karen Coats

Reading reading in the early reader: mindset, emotion, and power / Gretchen Papazian

Redefining the early reader in an era of multiliteracies: visual language of Mo Willems' Elephant and Piggie series / Daniel Hade and Laura Anne Hudock

Babymouse in space: locating the reader, text, character, and brand / Annette Wannamaker

'I think these chapters are not real': In a dark, dark room and the horrors of early reading / Katharine Slater

'Just think

How many girls have special powers like you?': weird girls and the normalizing of deviance in early readers / Michelle Beissel Heath

Free-ranging childhood and saving the earth in the Marty McGuire and Ivy and Bean early reader series / Helen Bittel

Alvin Ho: not allergic to playing Indian, feathers, and other stereotypical things / Sarah Park Dahlen

The world is flat, Stanley: globalization, ethnocentricity, and absurdity / Anne W. Anderson and Rebecca L. Powell

Playing with language, food, and pictures: ideology and cultural adaptations in the translation of the Captain Underpants series / Teresa Asiain

'Watch your language, Andy, ' said Terry. 'There might be children reading'; or, early readers the Australian way / Erica Hateley

Anna Hibiscus and The no. 1 car spotter: Africa in early readers / Jennifer Miskec.