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1. Michelle Ann Abate

Singular Sensations

“With her trademark pitch-perfect precision and profound purview, Abate rips the curtains back to show the magic behind single-panel comic storytelling. With breathtaking historical scope and dazzling analyses of exemplars, Abate gifts us with generative concepts and vital tools that crack wide open understanding of how story works in one gestaltic gulp. Singular Sensations is the paradigm shift in Comics Studies we’ve long awaited!” - Frederick Luis Aldama (author of the Eisner–award winning Latinx Superheroes in Mainstream Comics)

1. Michelle Ann Abate

Blockheads, Beagles, and Sweet Babboos

Sheds new light on the past importance, ongoing significance, and future relevance of a comics series that millions adore: Charles M. Schulz’s Peanuts. More specifically, the book examines a fundamental feature of the series: its core cast of characters.

“Suffering Sappho!”

This book explores the past place, current presence, and possible future status of lesbianism in comics.

1. Michelle Ann Abate

No Kids Allowed

[Abate's] most foundational argument is that the genre of children's literature for adults exists at all. Abate's study moves well beyond the genre itself to include cultural analysis of the shifting, often contradictory boundaries of childhood and adulthood."—American Literary History

1. Michelle Ann Abate

The Big Smallness

Selected for the Outstanding Academic Title (OAT) Award 2017 by CHOICE magazine. "Author Abate (Ohio State Univ.) makes a strong argument for the "ongoing atomization of American cultural, social, and political life" that has brought readers to the rather nuanced children's literature market of today. The current sociocultural landscape is a vast departure from the one-size-fits-all mentality of the Industrial Revolution, later reinforced during the mass industrialization of the early 20th century. Abate explains the technological advances that make it possible for anyone to author and publish books for children—books that reflect whatever personal interest or political issue the authors wish to advance. In a series of essays, she dissects the range of contemporary children's literature niches reflecting concerns as diverse as marijuana legalization, elective plastic surgery, LGBTQ rights, and schoolyard bullying. Providing objective analysis of these materials, Abate successfully demonstrates the positives as well as downsides of such fiction, which is fascinating in its ingenuity, exciting in its possibilities, and at times even troubling in its partisanship. The future of children's literature may perchance be foretold in such specialized work.Summing Up: Highly recommended. All libraries/levels." - K. N. Reed, Middle Tennessee State University, CHOICE "Some of the highlights of The Big Smallness include eye-opening expeditions into cultural histories behind the issues Abate discusses. ... Those looking for theoretical reflection on the formation of heteronormative gender and sexual identities will especially enjoy chapters 3 and 5; a reader interested in the ongoing medicalisation of motherhood and the developing adolescent body will likely turn to chapters 2 and 4." - Marek Oziewicz, University of Minnesota, USA

1. Michelle Ann Abate

Raising Your Kids Right

"Few people are aware of the right's attempts to use children's literature ideologically to indoctrinate American youth. While this book will certainly be valuable to scholars of children's literature and education, those outside of academe should also sit up and take notice." - Philip Nel (coeditor of Tales for Little Rebels) "Raising Your Kids Right is an eye-opening examination of how the contemporary conservative movement has deployed children's literature. Michelle Ann Abate adds a crucial dimension to the study of the conservative movement while simultaneously expanding the discussion about the intersections of children's literature and American politics." (Children's Literature Association Quarterly) "A timely and engaging study of the rise of conservative children's books published in the United States. It is a valuable study of the political nature of some of children's literature as it zeros in on a handful of high-profile conservative titles published since the 1990s." - Jan Susina (Teachers College Record) "A brilliant study that marks a significant intervention in both the fields of political science and children's literature." (The Lion and the Unicorn) "The role of children's literature in laying the groundwork for future generations to embrace conservatism is worth exploring and understanding. Abate's book helps open that conversation, while leaving plenty of questions for future scholars to pursue." (Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth)