Bridget Carrington
Bridget Carrington and Jennifer Harding have previously collaborated as the editors of earlier IBBY UK/NCRCL MA conference proceedings: Going Graphic: Comics and Graphic Novels for Young People; Conflicts and Controversies: Challenging Children's Literature; It Doesn't Have to Rhyme: Children and Poetry (Pied Piper Publishing, 2010, 2011, 2012); Beyond the Book: Transforming Children's Literature (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013).Bridget Carrington's doctoral research investigated the early...See more
Bridget Carrington and Jennifer Harding have previously collaborated as the editors of earlier IBBY UK/NCRCL MA conference proceedings: Going Graphic: Comics and Graphic Novels for Young People; Conflicts and Controversies: Challenging Children's Literature; It Doesn't Have to Rhyme: Children and Poetry (Pied Piper Publishing, 2010, 2011, 2012); Beyond the Book: Transforming Children's Literature (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013).Bridget Carrington's doctoral research investigated the early history of novels for young adult girls. Formally a teacher, she now researches and reviews a wide range of children's literature. She has contributed to the Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature (2005) and the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, and examined the novels of Flora Shaw in A Victorian Quartet: Four Forgotten Women Writers (edited by L. Thiel, E. Lomax, B. Carrington and M. Sebag-Montefiore, Pied Piper Publishing, 2008). She was the Editor of the Journal of Children's Literature Studies (no longer published).Jennifer Harding is a freelance editor and indexer with a regular clientele ranging from children's literature to politics and mathematics. Formerly a lecturer in further education for seventeen years, she followed this with fifteen years with a well-known educational publisher as an in-house editor. She edited What Do You See? International Perspectives on Children's Book Illustration (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008), with Pat Pinsent; and Deep into Nature: Ecology, Environment and Children's Literature (Pied Piper Publishing, 2009), with Elizabeth Thiel and Alison Waller. She is Associate Editor of IBBYLink, the journal of IBBY UK. See less
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