The Edinburgh companion to childrens literature Time has passed since having a PhD in childrens literature was a funny joke in Youve Got Mail. Childrens literature research is now one of the most dynamic fields of literary criticism and of education and has a bright future ahead as childrens writers and publishers invent yet more forms of literature for young people and researchers find yet more sophisticated ways of exploring them. This collection takes informed and scholarly readers to the utmost frontier of childrens literature criticism from the intricate worlds of childrens poetry picturebooks and video games to the new theoretical constellations of critical plant studies non fiction studies and big data analyses of literature.