Description: A timely group of essays that wrestles with what children's literature is and who it is made for
Brief description: Derritt Mason is associate professor of English at the University of Calgary. They are author of Queer Anxieties of Young Adult Literature and Culture and coeditor (with Kenneth B. Kidd) of Queer as Camp: Essays on Summer, Style, and Sexuality.
Review Quotes: A vital provocation for scholars of children's and young adult literature, in which twenty-three sharp thinkers challenge us to expand our definitions, center the underrepresented, and redraw the boundaries that haunt the field. As the essays in Alt Kid Lit demonstrate, if you want to change the paradigm, you first need to take the risks that lead to new ways of thinking. So. Accept that challenge. Start by reading this book.--Philip Nel, author of Was the Cat in the Hat Black? The Hidden Racism of Children's Literature, and the Need for Diverse Books