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Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2025) Children's Literature. In: Cambridge Companion To George MacDonald. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. (In Press)
Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2023) The Trope of Disability in Fiction for Children as a Model For Teaching Children’s Literature. In: Global Children’s Literature in the College Classroom. Bloomsbury Publishing, Rowman & Littlefield, Lexington Books, London, pp. 159-178. ISBN 978-1-66692-462-6
Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2021) 'Ghosts, murder and mutation': The portrayal of pandemics in children’s and YA fiction. Book 2.0, 11 (1). pp. 65-79. ISSN Print: 2042-8022 Online: 2042-8030
Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2021) The Flip Side of Arcadia: a Consideration of the Influence of A.A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh (1926), and The House at Pooh Corner (1928). In: Positioning Pooh: Edward Bear After One Hundred Years. Children's Literature Association Series . University Press of Mississippi, Mississippi. ISBN 9781496834102
Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2021) Crossing the Divide: Dementia and Developing Understanding between Young and Old in Contemporary Children’s Literature. In: Intergenerational Solidarity in Children’s Literature and Film. Children's Literature Association . University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 1-4968-3196-9
Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2020) Reflections on Playing and Puzzling with Alice and Tom. In: Rulers of Literary Playgrounds: Politics of Intergenerational Play in Children's Literature. Routledge (Taylor & Francis), New York, pp. 223-234. ISBN 9781003048985 (ebook)
Levene, A. and Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2019) Depictions of the ‘Ideal Child’ in Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Legislature. The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, 12 (1). pp. 26-44. ISSN 1939-6724 Online: 1941-3599
Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2019) Abilities. In: The Cambridge History of Children's Literature in English, Volume 3: 1914-the present. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. (Submitted)
Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2018) Review of Markus P. J. Bohlmann. Misfit Children: An Inquiry Into Childhood Belongings. Children and Youth in Popular Culture. Lexington Books, 2017, 258 pages. University of Edinburgh Press.
Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2018) Alcoholism and the Innocents: a Discussion of Drunkenness in Nineteenth Century Books for Children. In: Substance Use and Abuse in the Long Nineteenth Century, September 13th-14th, 2018, Edge Hill University. (Unpublished)
Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2018) Environmental Havoc in Teen Fiction: Speculating Futures. In: Using Literature in English Language Education: Challenging Reading for 8-18 Year Olds. Bloomsbury, London. ISBN 9781350034259
Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2018) Fantasy, Fear and Reality: Tracing Pathways Between Carroll, Kingsley, and MacDonald Leading to the Inklings. In: Informing the Inklings : George MacDonald and the Victorian Roots of Modern Fantasy. Winged Lion Press, London. ISBN 1935688200 978-1935688204
Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2018) Alice and Paddington: Digital Migrants From Book to Film. In: On the Fringes of Literature and Digital Media Culture: Perspectives from Eastern and Western Europe. 'Textxet' Studies in Comparative Literature . Brill, Leiden, pp. 159-170. ISBN 978-90-04-36168-3
Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2018) Myth - Conceptions of World War I in Selected Diaries and Fictional Diaries Written by and for Children. (Unpublished)
Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2018) Misfit Children: An Enquiry into Childhood Belongings. Children and Youth in Popular Culture. Ed. Markus P. J. Bohlmann (Book Review). Edinburgh University Press.
Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2017) Health, Sickness and Literature for Children. In: The Edinburgh Companion to Children’s Literature. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, pp. 281-288. ISBN Hardback: 9781474414630, eBook (ePub): 9781474414654
Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2017) Speculating Futures in Fiction for Teenagers: Westernized Perspectives. In: Teaching English with Challenging Texts Literature in Language Education with 8-18 Year Olds. Bloomsbury, London. (In Press)
Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2017) Environmental Perspectives and Speculating Futures in Fiction for Teenagers. In: Teaching English with Challenging Texts Literature in Language Education with 8-18 Year Olds. Bloomsbury, London. (In Press)
Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2016) Narrative Matters: ‘The third space’ in Adolescent and Young Adult Fiction. Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 21 (4). pp. 231-232. ISSN 1475-357X Online:1475-3588
Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2016) Considering Sickness and Health in Literature for Children and Young Adults: a Case Study of Health and Disability in the Work of F.H. Burnett. In: Narrating Disease and Deviance in Media for Children and Young Adults. Peter Lang, Frankfurt, pp. 19-34. ISBN 978-3-631-67279-2
Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2016) Myth - Conceptions of World War I in Selected Diaries and Fictional Diaries Written by and for Children. In: UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED. (Unpublished)
Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2015) 'Reading as Protection and Enlightenment in Marcus Zusak’s The Book Thief'. In: Children as Readers in Children's Literature: The power of texts and the importance of reading. Routledge, Abingdon, pp. 71-80. ISBN Hardback 9781138806696 Paperback 9781138806702 eBook 9781315751542
Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2015) Teaching Children’s Literature: An Overview. White Rabbit: English Studies in Latin America, 9. pp. 1-12. ISSN 0719-0921
Andrews, Maggie and Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2014) Myth-Conceptions of World War 1 in Diaries and Expistolatory Fiction for Children. In: CFP – The First World War in European Children’s Literature: 1970-2014, 27th June 2014, Trinity College Dublin. (Unpublished)
Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2014) Cooking Up a Good Story in Cookery Books for Children. In: Festschrift fur Hans - Heino Ewers. Kinder und Jugendkultur, literatur und medien, 93 . Peter Lang Publishing Group, Frankfurt am Main, pp. 337-344. ISBN 978-3-631-64614-4
Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2014) Constructions of Childhood through Food in Children’s Literature. In: Feast or Famine? Food and Children’s Literature. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, pp. 8-21. ISBN 978-1443861427
Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2013) ‘Food: Changing Approaches to Food in the Construction of Childhood in Western Culture’. In: (Re)imagining the World: Children's literature's response to changing times. New Frontiers of Educational Research . Springer, New York. ISBN 3642367593, 978-3642367595
Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2013) ‘Disaster To…..?’: Sustainability in English Children’s Literature: 1911-2013’. In: Sustainability. Research Focus Conference, Institute of Science and the Environment, University of Worcester, May 10th, 2013, University of Worcester. (Unpublished)
Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2013) 'Picture Books and Multiple Readings: When We Lived in Uncle’s Hat by Peter Stamm and Juta Bauer.'. In: Picturebooks: Beyond the Borders of Art, Narrative and Culture. Routledge, Abingdon, pp. 84-95. ISBN ISBN 978-0-415-81418-8
Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2013) What Do We Tell The Children? Critical Essays On Children’s Literature edited by Ciara Ní Bhroin And Patricia Kennon. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012 (Book Review). INIS Irish Children's Book Magazine.
Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2013) History, National Identity and the Environment in Contemporary English Fiction for Children. Childhood in Britain (93). pp. 54-59. ISSN Online: 0171 1695
Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2013) ‘Cooking up a Good Story’. In: 21st biennial conference of the International Research Society for Children’s Literature on Children’s Literature and Media Cultures, August 10th-14th 2013, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University, The Netherlands. (Unpublished)
Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2013) Childhood Three Ways: Constructions of Childhood Through Food in Children’s Literature. In: IBBY/NCRCL, University of Roehampton Annual Conference. ‘Food and Children’s Literature’., November 9th, 2013, University of Roehampton. (Unpublished)
Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2013) Reading as Protection and Enlightenment in Marcus Zusak’s The Book Thief. In: Reading Fictions, October 11th, 2013, University of Glasgow. (Unpublished)
Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2013) Challenging Teenage and Young Adult Reading in the UK: The Novels of Philip Reeve. ‘Children’s literature: reflections, analysis and testimonies’ Tema Y Variaciones De Literatura No.41 (Topics and variations in literature volume 41), 41. pp. 155-190. ISSN 1405-9959.
Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2012) Using Children’s Literature. In: Primary English Teaching: An Introduction to Language, Literacy and Learning. Revised Australian Edition,. Hawker Brownlow Education, Victoria, Australia.
Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2012) ‘From System to Question to Challenge: The Construction of Adolescence in Kipling’s Kim; Chambers’ Dance On My Grave and Hartnett’s Sleeping Dogs’. In: Till En Evakuerad Igelkott. (Celebrating a Displaced Hedgehog.). Makadam.
Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2012) Review of Thomas Kullmann (ed.) Violence in English Children’s and Young Adults’ Fiction. International Research in Children’s Literature, 5. pp. 126-130. ISSN 1775-6198
Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2011) Realism, Fantasy and a Critique of Nineteenth Century Society in George MacDonald’s At the Back of the North Wind. In: Behind the Back of the North Wind. Winged Lion Press, Hamden, CT, pp. 175-192. ISBN 1936294109, 9781936294107
Levene, A. and Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2011) 'Nothing Wrong With Us Brits! the Repression of Mental Health Problems in English Texts Post WW2: an interdisciplinary approach.'. In: IRSCL Bi-annual conference., August 16th, 2011, Brisbane, Australia. (Unpublished)
Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2011) ‘Shadow of Asylum: Refuge Under Siege’. In: ‘Change and Insurrection in Children’s Literature’ ChLA Annual Conference,, June 23rd-25th, 2011, Roanoke Virginia. (Unpublished)
Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2011) Invited Lecture Series on Aspects of Children’s Literature. In: invited lectures, April 2011, University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria. (Unpublished)
Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2011) Learning and Teaching Literacy using Children’s Literature. In: Primary English Teaching: An Introduction to Language, Literacy and Learning. Sage, London. ISBN 9781849201964
Levene, A. and Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2011) 'Nothing Wrong With Us Brits!' the Repression of Mental Health Problems in English Texts Post WW2: an Interdisciplinary Approach. INIS, The (Irish) Children’s Books Magazine, 36 (Winter). pp. 34-37.
Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2011) Hungry Cities: a Discussion of Contemporary Approaches Towards the Environment in English Children’s Literature. In: Navigasjoner: I Barne-Og Ungdomslitteraturen. Portal.
Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2011) 'Picture Books and Multiple Readings: When We Lived in Uncle’s Hat by Peter Stamm and Juta Bauer.'. New Review of Children’s Literature and Librarianship, 17 (2). pp. 164-175. ISSN 1361-4541 (Print), 1740-7885 (Online)
Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2011) Review of Karín Lesnik-Oberstein (ed): Children in Culture, Revisited: Further Approaches to Childhood. The Journal of Children's Literature Studies, 8 (3). ISSN 1743-0526
Levene, A. and Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2011) 'Overwork, Leisure and Health in Literature and Legislature in the Mid-nineteenth Century'. In: Child Health and Welfare in History invited symposium, November, 2011, St John’s Research Centre, Oxford.. (Unpublished)
Levene, A. and Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2011) ‘More Like Dogs Dozing Upon a Warm Hearthstone than Like Children’: Nnineteenth-century Perceptions of Children’s Work and Health in Literature and Legislature’. In: ‘Child Labour in the Past: Children as economic contributors and consumers’ conference of The Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past,, September 2011, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge.. (Unpublished)
Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2011) ‘The Book Thief: Reading as Protection and Enlightenment. In: ‘Reading Fictions: How representations of books and readers in children’s literature reflect perceptions of the power and purpose of literacy.’, University of Glasgow. (Unpublished)
Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2011) ‘The Construction of the Obese Child in Children’s Literature.’. In: Invited Seminar series at The Cambridge/Homerton Research and Teaching Centre for Children’s Literature., November, 2011, Institute of Education, Homerton, University of Cambridge. (Unpublished)
Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2011) 'System to Question to Challenge: the Fictional Construction of Adolescence in Kipling’s Kim, Chambers’ Dance on My Grave and Hartnett’s Sleeping Dogs. In: The Emergent Adult: Adolescent Literature and Culture Conference., September, 2011, The Cambridge/Homerton Research and Teaching Centre for Children’s Literature, University of Cambridge.. (Unpublished)
Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2010) The Political Import of the Construction of Childhood: International Perspectives. In: Alworth Institute International Seminar Series, October 27th, 2010, Alworth Institute, University of Minnesota Duluth. (Unpublished)
Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2010) A.A. Milne’s Poetic World of Childhood in When We Were Very Young and Now We Are Six. In: Poetry and Childhood. Trentham, London. ISBN 1858564727 (pbk.) :
Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2010) System to Question to Challenge: the Fictional Construction of Adolescence in Kipling’s Kim, Chambers’ Dance on My Grave and Hartnett’s Sleeping Dogs. In: The Emergent Adult, September 3rd-6th 2010, University of Cambridge Faculty of Education, Homerton. (Unpublished)
Cox, Robyn and Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2010) 'Children's Literature and Its Impact on Improving Writing Skills'. In: Education Conference for Teachers, Courtyard Theatre, Hereford. (Unpublished)
Bigger, Stephen and Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2010) Developing Environmental Agency and Engagement Through Young People’s Fiction. Environmental Education Research, 16 (3-4). pp. 401-414. ISSN 1469-5871 (electronic) 1350-4622 (paper)
Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2010) Politics and Children's Literature. In: Australasian Children's Literature Association for Research Bi-annual congress: Children's Literature and its Politics: Representation and the Rules of Engagement., June 2010, University of Wollongong, Australia. (Unpublished)
Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2010) International Perspectives on Landscape in Children’s Literature. In: Symposium on New Zealand Children's Literature, June 2010, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand. (Unpublished)
Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2009) Politics and Landscape in Children's Literature. In: Invited keynote seminar series, November, 2009, University of Malmo, Sweden. (Unpublished)
Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 and Cox, Robyn (2009) The Olympic Stories Project. Primary Subjects 6, Council for Subject Associations PS5.
Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2009) When We Lived in Uncle’s Hat: a Discussion of a Surreal Construction of Identity and Family.’. In: New Impulses In Picturebook Research. ‘Beyond Borders: Art, narrative and culture in picturebooks’, September 2009, University of Glasgow. (Unpublished)
Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2009) ‘Winds of Change Whistling Through the Willows: a Discussion of the Changing Perceptions of the Relationship Constructed with the Environment in English Children’s Literature: 1908-2008.’. In: ‘Children’s Literature and Cultural Diversity’, 19th Biennal Congress of the International Research Society for Children’s Literature, August 2009, Institut fur Jugendbuchforschung, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.. (Unpublished)
Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2009) ‘States of being in Howl’s Moving Castle and the Time of the Ghost by Diana Wynne Jones.’. In: Diana Wynne Jones Conference, July 2009, University of the West of England, Bristol. (Unpublished)
Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2009) ‘Fat or Thin? A Discussion of Cultural Perceptions of Body Size in Fatty Rati and The Fattening Hut.’. In: ‘The Best of Three’; Children’s Literature Association 36th Annual Conference., June 2009, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. (Unpublished)
Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2009) International Research Centre for Primary English and Children's Literature: Annual Research and Knowledge Transfer Report 2008-2009. Other. University of Worcester. (Unpublished)
Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2009) ‘Is Our Future Set in Stone? A Discussion of Michelle Paver’s Chronicles of Ancient Darkness.’. In: Deep Into Nature: Ecology, Environment and Children’s Literature. Pied Piper Press, Lichfield, pp. 258-267. ISBN 978 0 9552106 9
Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2009) ‘The Changing Employment of the Greek and Roman Classics in Children's Literature, 1856-2012.’. In: ‘Asterisks & obelisks.’, July 2009, Dept. of Classics, University of Wales, Lampeter.. (Unpublished)
Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2009) ‘Children’s Literature in England; the Contemporary Position.’. In: The Minimondi Festival of Children's Literature, May 2009, Palermo, Sicily. (Unpublished)
Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2009) Planning and Developing Research at PhD Level in Children’s Literature. In: Belfast PhD Research network in children’s literature., May 2009, Queen's University, Belfast.. (Unpublished)
Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2009) A.A. Milne’s Poetic World of Childhood in When We Were Very Young and Now We Are Six. In: British Library/Homerton Cambridge Poetry and Childhood, March 2009, British Library, London. (Unpublished)
Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2008) Voracious Appetites: the Construction of 'Fatness' in Children's Literature. In: Critical Approaches to Food in Children's Literature. Children's literature and culture; 59 . Routledge, London, pp. 105-121. ISBN 0415963664
Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2008) Aesthetic Hegemony: Western Scholars and Native American Culture. In: What Do You See? International Perspectives on Illustration In Children’s Picture Books. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, pp. 88-100. ISBN 1443800074
Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2008) International Centre for Research in Children's Literature, Literacy and Creativity : Annual Research and Knowledge Transfer Report 2007 - 2008. Other. University of Worcester, University of Worcester. (Unpublished)
Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2008) ‘Spirit Walking Across the Landscape’: a Discussion of Landscape and the Environment in Michelle Paver’s Series Chronicles of Ancient Darkness. In: University of Worcester Research Focus Landscape and the Environment, 2008, University of Worcester. (Unpublished)
Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2008) Is Our Future Set in Stone? A Discussion of Michelle Paver’s Chronicles of Ancient Darkness. In: IBBY/MA conference Roehampton, November 2008, National Centre for Research in Children's Literature University of Roehampton. (Unpublished)
Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2008) A Discussion of the Contemporary Relevance of Michelle Paver’s Series Chronicles of Ancient Darkness. In: Children's Literature Association Annual Conference, June, 2008, Illinois State University, Illinois, USA. (Unpublished)
Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2008) Politics and Children’s Literature. In: Children’s Literature Association India, January 2008, Mangalore, India. (Unpublished)
Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2007) ‘The Real and the Child-like: Generation and Philosophy in Tove Jansson’s The Summer Book’. In: Tove Jansson Rediscovered. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne. ISBN 1-84718-269-0 ISBN13: 9781847182692
Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2007) Realism, Fantasy and a Critique of Nineteenth Century Society in George MacDonald's At the Back of the North Wind. In: "A Noble Unrest" Contemporary Essays on the Work of George MacDonald. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, pp. 17-32. ISBN 1847181546
Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2007) The Real and the Child-Like: Generation and Philosophy in Tove Jansson's The Summer Book. In: Tove Jansson Rediscovered. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, pp. 222-233. ISBN 1847182690
Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2007) Swash-Buckler With a Re-Fashioned Sword? The Model of the Hero in Contemporary Adventure Stories. In: Children's Literature: Some Marxist Perspectives. University of Hertfordshire Press. ISBN 1902806654
Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2007) “A Noble Unrest”: Contemporary Essays on the work of George MacDonald. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne. ISBN 1847181546
Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2007) Aesthetic Hegemony: Western Scholars and Native American Culture. In: IBBY/MA Roehampton, November, 2007, National Centre for Research in Children's Literature, University of Roehampton. (Unpublished)
Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2007) ‘Re-writing the Heroic Map: a Discussion of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Problematisation of the Nineteenth Century Hero and Cultural Otherness.’. In: International Research Society for Children's Literature Congress, August 2007, Kyoto Japan. (Unpublished)
Johnson, Rachel and Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2007) Research Collection, Development and Collaboration. In: Collectors and Collecting, June 2007, Chawton House, Hampshire.. (Unpublished)
Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2007) ‘Voracious Appetites: the Construction of 'Fatness' in Children's Literature.’. In: Children's Literature Association Annual conference, June 2007, Virginia, USA. (Unpublished)
Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2007) ‘Chicken or eggs-over-easy?: a Discussion of Catherine Forde’s Fat Boy Slim'. In: American Popular Culture Association and the Popular Culture Assoc Conference, April 2007, Boston, USA. (Unpublished)
Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2007) ‘The Real and the Child-like: Generation and Philosophy in Tove Jansson’s The Summer Book’. In: A Celebration of Tove Jansson, March 2007, Oxford University. (Unpublished)
Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2007) ‘Swash-buckler with a Re-fashioned Sword? The Model of the Hero in Contemporary Adventure Stories. In: Marxism and Children’s Literature, September 2006, University of Hertfordshire.
Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2007) 'Before the Mounties Arrived….’ perspectives on Canada - Stories by Sir Charles D. Roberts and R.M. Ballantyne. In: Henty Society Conference.
Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2007) Realism, Fantasy and a Critique of Nineteenth Century Society in George MacDonald’s At the Back of the North Wind, 1871.’. In: C.S. Lewis Society,, June 2006, Taylor University, Indiana, USA.
Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2007) "A Noble Unrest”: Contemporary Essays on the Work of George MacDonald. Jean Webb (Editor). Cambridge Scholars Publishing,, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. ISBN 1847181546
Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2006) Genre and Convention. In: Teaching Children’s Fiction. Teaching the New English . Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke.
Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2006) Beyond the Knowing: The Frontier of the Real and the Imaginary in David Almond’s Skellig and The Fire-Eaters. In: Towards or Back to Human Values. Spiritual and Moral Dimensions of Contemporary Fantasy. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, pp. 242-252. ISBN 9781904363732
Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2006) Re-visioning Romanticism in Philip Pullman’s Trilogy His Dark Materials. BookBird Lithuania, Winter.
Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2006) ‘Writing History and Children’s Literature’. In: ‘Writing History and Children’s Literature’, Autumn 2006, Danish National Centre for Research in Children's Literature, Copenhagen. (Unpublished)
Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2006) ‘Reconstruction of the Family in the Work of Jacqueline Wilson’. In: Children's Literature Association Annual Conference, June 2006, Manhattan Beach, LA, USA. (Unpublished)
Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2005) The Sunny Side Of Darkness: Children´s Literature in Totalitarian and Post-Totalitarian Eastern Europe. Jean Webb (Editor). University of Tallinn Press, Tallinn.
Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2005) The Construction Of ‘Englishness’ In The Work Of Michael Morpurgo, Children’s Laureate For The UK, 2003-2005. INIS : The Magazine of Children's Books Ireland, Winter.

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1.	Reading as Protection and Enlightenment in Marcus Zusak’s The Book Thief	1155
2.	‘The Changing Employment of the Greek and Roman Classics in Children's Literature, 1856-2012.’	1005
3.	‘More Like Dogs Dozing Upon a Warm Hearthstone than Like Children’: Nnineteenth-century Perceptions of Children’s Work and Health in Literature and Legislature’	968
4.	Text Culture and National Identity in Children’s Literature: International Seminar on Children's Literature, Pure and Applied, University of Worcester, England June 14-19, 1999. Jean Webb (Editor)	754
5.	'Nothing Wrong With Us Brits!' the Repression of Mental Health Problems in English Texts Post WW2: an Interdisciplinary Approach.	717
6.	Conceptualising Childhood: Robert Louis Stevenson’s A Child’s Garden of Verses.	698
7.	‘Out of this World’: Fantasy, Fairy tale, Subjectivity and Projection of the Future in 19th and 20th Century Fantasy Texts for Children	642
8.	The Flip Side of Arcadia: a Consideration of the Influence of A.A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh (1926), and The House at Pooh Corner (1928).	572	2
9.	‘Is Our Future Set in Stone? A Discussion of Michelle Paver’s Chronicles of Ancient Darkness.’	570
10.	What Do We Tell The Children? Critical Essays On Children’s Literature edited by Ciara Ní Bhroin And Patricia Kennon. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012 (Book Review)	564
11.	Introducing Children's Literature: from Romanticism to Postmodernism.	550
12.	'Reading as Protection and Enlightenment in Marcus Zusak’s The Book Thief'	547	926
13.	Realism, Fantasy and a Critique of Nineteenth Century Society in George MacDonald's At the Back of the North Wind.	526
14.	Text Culture And Post-Colonial Children’s Literature: A Comparative Perspective.	521
15.	Developing Environmental Agency and Engagement Through Young People’s Fiction	516	467
16.	International Centre for Research in Children's Literature, Literacy and Creativity : Annual Research and Knowledge Transfer Report 2007 - 2008	466	583
17.	‘Reconstruction of the Family in the Work of Jacqueline Wilson’	454
18.	Voracious Appetites: the Construction of 'Fatness' in Children's Literature	442
19.	A.A. Milne’s Poetic World of Childhood in When We Were Very Young and Now We Are Six.	441
20.	Beyond the Knowing: The Frontier of the Real and the Imaginary in David Almond’s Skellig and The Fire-Eaters	435
21.	‘The Book Thief: Reading as Protection and Enlightenment.	405
22.	System to Question to Challenge: the Fictional Construction of Adolescence in Kipling’s Kim, Chambers’ Dance on My Grave and Hartnett’s Sleeping Dogs.	399
23.	‘Food: Changing Approaches to Food in the Construction of Childhood in Western Culture’	381
24.	‘Disaster To…..?’: Sustainability in English Children’s Literature: 1911-2013’	379
25.	"A Noble Unrest”: Contemporary Essays on the Work of George MacDonald. Jean Webb (Editor)	372
26.	Walking Into the Sky: Englishness, Heroism and Cultural Identity: a 19th and 20th Century Perspective.	368
27.	Narrative Matters: ‘The third space’ in Adolescent and Young Adult Fiction	355	435
28.	If We Had Fairies They’d Melt - A Comparative Discussion Of The Fairy Tale In Nineteenth-Century English, American And Australian Literature For Children	354
29.	'Nothing Wrong With Us Brits! the Repression of Mental Health Problems in English Texts Post WW2: an interdisciplinary approach.'	350
30.	Re-visioning Romanticism in Philip Pullman’s Trilogy His Dark Materials.	348
31.	'Picture Books and Multiple Readings: When We Lived in Uncle’s Hat by Peter Stamm and Juta Bauer.'	335
32.	The Sunny Side Of Darkness: Children´s Literature in Totalitarian and Post-Totalitarian Eastern Europe. Jean Webb (Editor)	334
33.	The Construction Of ‘Englishness’ In The Work Of Michael Morpurgo, Children’s Laureate For The UK, 2003-2005	324
34.	The Anxiety Of The Real: A Reading Of Charles Kingsley’s Water Babies’.	322
35.	Nyt syn på romantikken i Philip Pullmans trilogi His Dark Materials” (Re-visioning Romanticism in Philip Pullman’s Trilogy: His Dark Materials)	322
36.	The Real and the Child-Like: Generation and Philosophy in Tove Jansson's The Summer Book.	321
37.	Childhood Three Ways: Constructions of Childhood Through Food in Children’s Literature	318
38.	Fantasy, Fear and Reality: Tracing Pathways Between Carroll, Kingsley, and MacDonald Leading to the Inklings	314
39.	Reflection and Direction: Research and Children’s Literature	307
40.	Alice and Paddington: Digital Migrants From Book to Film	305
41.	Children’s Literature: The State of the Art.	304
42.	Depictions of the ‘Ideal Child’ in Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Legislature	302	297
43.	Considering Sickness and Health in Literature for Children and Young Adults: a Case Study of Health and Disability in the Work of F.H. Burnett	293	10
44.	‘Re-writing the Heroic Map: a Discussion of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Problematisation of the Nineteenth Century Hero and Cultural Otherness.’	291
45.	'Overwork, Leisure and Health in Literature and Legislature in the Mid-nineteenth Century'.	290
46.	Aesthetic Hegemony: Western Scholars and Native American Culture	289
47.	‘Fat or Thin? A Discussion of Cultural Perceptions of Body Size in Fatty Rati and The Fattening Hut.’	276
48.	Hungry Cities: a Discussion of Contemporary Approaches Towards the Environment in English Children’s Literature.	274
49.	‘Chicken or eggs-over-easy?: a Discussion of Catherine Forde’s Fat Boy Slim'.	274
50.	Constructions of Childhood through Food in Children’s Literature	269
51.	Learning and Teaching Literacy using Children’s Literature	269
52.	Genre and Convention.	267
53.	Crossing the Divide: Dementia and Developing Understanding between Young and Old in Contemporary Children’s Literature.	264	188
54.	Challenging Teenage and Young Adult Reading in the UK: The Novels of Philip Reeve	258	188
55.	History, National Identity and the Environment in Contemporary English Fiction for Children	257	4
56.	Social and Cultural Values and Reading – a Literary Perspective.	257
57.	Politics and Landscape in Children's Literature	255
58.	Teaching Children’s Literature: An Overview	253
59.	Environmental Havoc in Teen Fiction: Speculating Futures	250	3
60.	Review of Markus P. J. Bohlmann. Misfit Children: An Inquiry Into Childhood Belongings. Children and Youth in Popular Culture. Lexington Books, 2017, 258 pages.	249	8
61.	‘Spirit Walking Across the Landscape’: a Discussion of Landscape and the Environment in Michelle Paver’s Series Chronicles of Ancient Darkness.	249
62.	Using Children’s Literature.	249
63.	'Children's Literature and Its Impact on Improving Writing Skills'.	246
64.	Selecting Books for Younger Readers.	245
65.	Northern Lights and Southern Gardens.	244
66.	'Ghosts, murder and mutation': The portrayal of pandemics in children’s and YA fiction	243	133
67.	Alcoholism and the Innocents: a Discussion of Drunkenness in Nineteenth Century Books for Children	243	3
68.	‘States of being in Howl’s Moving Castle and the Time of the Ghost by Diana Wynne Jones.’	243
69.	‘Cooking up a Good Story’.	243
70.	Review of Thomas Kullmann (ed.) Violence in English Children’s and Young Adults’ Fiction.	242
71.	‘The Recurrent Image of Eden in English Children’s Literature	236
72.	Health, Sickness and Literature for Children	235	9
73.	‘Writing History and Children’s Literature’	226
74.	Cinders and Tom on the Town Literary Theory & Children's Literature.’	225
75.	‘Contemporary Writing and Culture in the UK’.	223
76.	Myth-Conceptions of World War 1 in Diaries and Expistolatory Fiction for Children	223
77.	Myth - Conceptions of World War I in Selected Diaries and Fictional Diaries Written by and for Children	220
78.	'Picture Books and Multiple Readings: When We Lived in Uncle’s Hat by Peter Stamm and Juta Bauer.'	218
79.	Realism, Fantasy and a Critique of Nineteenth Century Society in George MacDonald’s At the Back of the North Wind	218
80.	International Research Centre for Primary English and Children's Literature: Annual Research and Knowledge Transfer Report 2008-2009	217	375
81.	‘Voracious Appetites: the Construction of 'Fatness' in Children's Literature.’	215
82.	Politics and Children's Literature.	215
83.	‘From System to Question to Challenge: The Construction of Adolescence in Kipling’s Kim; Chambers’ Dance On My Grave and Hartnett’s Sleeping Dogs’	215
84.	‘The Construction of the Obese Child in Children’s Literature.’	213
85.	The Political Import of the Construction of Childhood: International Perspectives.	213
86.	The Olympic Stories Project.	212
87.	A.A. Milne’s Poetic World of Childhood in When We Were Very Young and Now We Are Six	212
88.	‘Shadow of Asylum: Refuge Under Siege’	212
89.	Invited Lecture Series on Aspects of Children’s Literature	210
90.	Swash-Buckler With a Re-Fashioned Sword? The Model of the Hero in Contemporary Adventure Stories.	210
91.	Out of the Mouths of Babes... the Construction of Irishness in Charles Kingsley’s The Water Babies’	210
92.	Cooking Up a Good Story in Cookery Books for Children	209	12
93.	‘Genre, Culture and Politics in African American Writing for Children’	209
94.	Review of Karín Lesnik-Oberstein (ed): Children in Culture, Revisited: Further Approaches to Childhood.	207
95.	Planning and Developing Research at PhD Level in Children’s Literature.	207
96.	Is Our Future Set in Stone? A Discussion of Michelle Paver’s Chronicles of Ancient Darkness.	207
97.	‘The Real and the Child-like: Generation and Philosophy in Tove Jansson’s The Summer Book’	206
98.	‘Swash-buckler with a Re-fashioned Sword? The Model of the Hero in Contemporary Adventure Stories.	204
99.	“A Noble Unrest”: Contemporary Essays on the work of George MacDonald	203
100.	When We Lived in Uncle’s Hat: a Discussion of a Surreal Construction of Identity and Family.’	202

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