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It's time to talk about Roald (2020)
Journal Article
Alston, A. (in press). It's time to talk about Roald. NATE Primary Matters, 19-24

“When something is wrong we write it”: The portrayal of female genital mutilation in children’s literature (2019)
Journal Article
Alston, A. (2019). “When something is wrong we write it”: The portrayal of female genital mutilation in children’s literature. Bookbird, 57(2), 22-34. https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2019.0015

© 2019 BY BOOKBIRD, INC. Focusing on Williams-Garcia’s No Laughter Here (2004) and Craigie’s What Was Never Said (2015), this article questions their representation of female genital mutilation (FGM). It considers the use of voice, writing, and siste... Read More about “When something is wrong we write it”: The portrayal of female genital mutilation in children’s literature.

Mothers in children's and young adult literature: From the eighteenth century to postfeminsim. Eds Lisa Rowe Fraustino and Karen Coats (2017)
Journal Article
Alston, A. (2017). Mothers in children's and young adult literature: From the eighteenth century to postfeminsim. Eds Lisa Rowe Fraustino and Karen Coats. International Research in Children's Literature, 10(2), 227-229. https://doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2017.0244

Your room or mine? Spatial politics in children's literature (2005)
Journal Article
Alston, A. (2005). Your room or mine? Spatial politics in children's literature. New Review of Children's Literature and Librarianship, 11(1), 15 - 31. https://doi.org/10.1080/13614540500105412