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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

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 (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. International Research in Children’s Literature, 11 (2). pp. 209-211. ISSN 1755-6198 Online: 1755-6201

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 (Unpublished)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). International Research in Children's Literature, 11 (2). pp. 209-211. ISSN Print: 1755-6198 Online: 1755-6201

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 (2015) Teaching Children’s Literature: An Overview. White Rabbit: English Studies in Latin America, 9. pp. 1-12. ISSN 0719-0921

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) 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) 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

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) '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

Bigger, Stephen and Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2010) Growing Environmental Activists: Developing Environmental Agency and Engagement Through Children’s Fiction. Environmental Education Research, 16 (3 & 4). pp. 401-414. ISSN 1469-5871 (electronic) 1350-4622 (paper)

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 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 (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 (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.

Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2004) Nyt syn på romantikken i Philip Pullmans trilogi His Dark Materials” (Re-visioning Romanticism in Philip Pullman’s Trilogy: His Dark Materials). Nedslag i børnelitteraturforskningen 5 ( New Research into Children's Literature 5), 5. pp. 135-155.

Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2004) Reflection and Direction: Research and Children’s Literature. CREArTA, Journal of the Centre for Research and Education in the Arts. ISSN 1448 5373

Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2003) Conceptualising Childhood: Robert Louis Stevenson’s A Child’s Garden of Verses. Cambridge Journal of Education, 32 (3). pp. 359-365. ISSN 0305 764X

Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (1997) If We Had Fairies They’d Melt - A Comparative Discussion Of The Fairy Tale In Nineteenth-Century English, American And Australian Literature For Children. Journal of the South Australian Teachers Association., Vol. 2 (No.2).

Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (1997) The Anxiety Of The Real: A Reading Of Charles Kingsley’s Water Babies’. British Association of Lecturers in Children's Literature Bulletin.

Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (1997) Northern Lights and Southern Gardens. Opinion, 26 (2). pp. 9-13. ISSN 0813 619X

Book Section

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)

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) 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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (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) '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 (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) 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 (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

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

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 (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 (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 (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 (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) 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) 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) 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 (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) Genre and Convention. In: Teaching Children’s Fiction. Teaching the New English . Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke.

Mills, Colin and Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2004) Selecting Books for Younger Readers. In: International Companion Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature 2nd edition. Routledge. ISBN 0415290538

Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2003) Walking Into the Sky: Englishness, Heroism and Cultural Identity: a 19th and 20th Century Perspective. In: Children’s Literature and the Fin-de-Siecle. Contributions to the Study of World Literature (13). Praeger, Westport, CT, pp. 51-56. ISBN 0313321207

Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2002) Children’s Literature: The State of the Art. In: Children’s Literature in English at the Turn of the Millennium ; Selected papers and workshops from the First and Second International Biennial Conferences on Children's Literature in English, University of Hradec Kralove 27-29 January 1999 and 24-26 Ja. The British Council, Gaudeamus, Hradec Kralové, pp. 9-20. ISBN 8070419407

Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2000) Text Culture And Post-Colonial Children’s Literature: A Comparative Perspective. In: Voices of the Other ; Children's Literature and the Postcolonial Context. Children's Literature and Culture (10). Garland, New York, pp. 71-88. ISBN 081533284X

Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 Social and Cultural Values and Reading – a Literary Perspective. In: Pedagogy of Children’s Reading: History, Theory, Perspectives. Moscow State University of Culture and Arts, Moscow.

Report

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). Other. INIS Irish Children's Book Magazine.

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 (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)

Conference or Workshop Item

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)

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 (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) 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) ‘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) Reading as Protection and Enlightenment in Marcus Zusak’s The Book Thief. In: Reading Fictions, October 11th, 2013, University of Glasgow. (Unpublished)

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) ‘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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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 (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 (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 (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) 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 (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 (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) 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) 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 (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 (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) '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) ‘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) ‘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)

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.

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) ‘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) ‘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 (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 (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 (2005) The Construction of ‘Englishness’ in the Work of Michael Morpurgo, Children’s Laureate for the UK, 2003-2005.’. In: International Research Society for Children's Literature, August 2005, Trinity College, Dublin, Eire. (Unpublished)

Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2005) ‘A Panorama of Pirates, Performance and Parenting'. In: International Research Society for Children's Literature, August 2005, University of Winnipeg, Canada. (Unpublished)

Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2003) ‘Out of this World’: Fantasy, Fairy tale, Subjectivity and Projection of the Future in 19th and 20th Century Fantasy Texts for Children. In: International Research Society for Children's Literature, August 2003, Agder University, Kristiansand, Norway. (Unpublished)

Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2002) ‘Conceptualising Childhood: Robert Louis Stevenson’s A Child’s Garden of Verses’. In: Australian Children’s Literature Research Association Conference, June 2002, Brisbane, Australia. (Unpublished)

Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2002) ‘Contemporary Writing and Culture in the UK’. In: Catholic Teacher’s Association, June 2002, Brisbane, Australia. (Unpublished)

Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2000) ‘Genre, Culture and Politics in African American Writing for Children’. In: Research seminar series, March 2000, Cardinal Newman College, Birmingham. (Unpublished)

Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2000) ‘Voices of Anti-imperialism in Fiction for Children’. In: Seminar series, Centre for International Research in Children's Literature, October 2000, University of Reading. (Unpublished)

Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (1998) ‘The Recurrent Image of Eden in English Children’s Literature. In: British Comparative Literature Association Conference, June 1998, University of Lancaster. (Unpublished)

Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (1996) Cinders and Tom on the Town Literary Theory & Children's Literature.’. In: A Coming of Age? Researching Children’s Literature, March 1995, La Sainte Union College, Southampton..

Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 Out of the Mouths of Babes... the Construction of Irishness in Charles Kingsley’s The Water Babies’. In: To the Other Shore conference on the notions of Irishness, La Sainte Union, Southampton. (Unpublished)

Book

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 (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 (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 and Thacker, Deborah (2002) Introducing Children's Literature: from Romanticism to Postmodernism. Routledge, London. ISBN 0415204119

Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2000) Text Culture and National Identity in Children’s Literature. NORDINFO.

Webb, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6619-1802 (2000) 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). NORDINFO publications: 44 . NORDINFO, Helsinki. ISBN 9525204065