Language, Gender and Children's Fiction

Abstract

Language, Gender and Children’s Fiction is about the fi ction young children read (at home and school), the language of that fiction, and the way female and male characters, and gender relations, are represented in the language of that fiction. Literacy practices and events vary hugely how culture-specific is the bedtime story, for instance? and much fiction is actually encountered through TV, film, computer games and theatre rather than the written word, but most children worldwide are also likely to encounter written fiction of some sort.