Review Articles, Reviews, Editorials, Essays, Encyclopedia Entries, and Miscellaneous Pieces
Review of The Heart Has Its Reasons: Young Adult Literature with Lesbian/Gay/Queer Content, by Michael Cart and Christine A. Jenkins (Scarecrow Press, 2006). International Research in Children’s Literature 1, no. 1 (2008): 106-7. (In press)
“Eternally Anne.” Review of Imagining Anne: The Island Scrapbooks of L.M. Montgomery, by Elizabeth Rollins Epperly (Penguin Canada, 2008); Before Green Gables, by Budge Wilson (Penguin Canada, 2008); Looking for Anne: How Lucy Maud Montgomery Dreamed Up a Literary Classic, by Irene Gammel (Key Porter Books, 2008). The Globe and Mail, 22 March 2008, D1, D9. (Full Text)
Review of American Sweethearts: Teenage Girls in Twentieth-Century Popular Culture, by Ilana Nash (Indiana University Press, 2006). Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 33, no. 1 (Spring 2008): 113-15. (Contents)
“Writing and Rewriting Nancy Drew, Girl Detective.” Review of Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her, by Melanie Rehak (Harcourt, 2005). Children’s Literature, no. 35 (2007): 228-36. (Contents)
Review of Almost Eden, by Anita Horrock (Tundra Books, 2006). Journal of Mennonite Studies, no. 25 (2007): 245-46. (Full Text)
“L.M. Montgomery Studies.” Review of Windows and Words: A Look at Canadian Children’s Literature in English, edited by Aïda Hudson and Susan-Ann Cooper (University of Ottawa Press, 2003); Anne of Green Gables, by L.M. Montgomery, edited by Cecily Devereux (Broadview Press, 2004); The Intimate Life of L.M. Montgomery, edited by Irene Gammel (University of Toronto Press, 2005). Canadian Literature, no. 189 (Summer 2006): 158-60. (Contents) (Full Text)
“The ‘Hardy Brats’ and their Foolhardy Creator.” Review of The Secret of the Hardy Boys: Leslie McFarlane and the Stratemeyer Syndicate, by Marilyn S. Greenwald (Ohio University Press, 2004). Children’s Literature, no. 34 (2006): 239-45. (Contents)
“Cooney, Caroline”; “Hardy Boys Series”; “Korman, Gordon”; “Mazer, Harry”; “Mazer, Norma Fox”; “Nancy Drew”; “Stratemeyer Syndicate.” In The Oxford Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature, edited by Jack Zipes, 1:343; 2:201; 2:381; 3:48; 3:48-49; 3:134; 4:53-54. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
“Shared Characteristics of Boys and Men in Recent Canadian Children’s Fiction.” Review of twelve Canadian novels for young adults by authors such as Tim Wynne-Jones, Martine Leavitt, Alan Cumyn, and Eric Walters. Canadian Children’s Literature / Littérature canadienne pour la jeunesse 31, no. 1 (Spring 2005): 145-61. (Contents)
“Assessments and Reassessments.” Editorial. In “Reassessments of L.M. Montgomery,” edited by Benjamin Lefebvre, 6-13. Spec. issue of Canadian Children’s Literature / Littérature canadienne pour la jeunesse, no. 113-114 (Spring-Summer 2004). (Contents) (Full Text)
«Méthodes d’évaluation». Présentation. Dans «Reassessments of L.M. Montgomery», sous la direction de Benjamin Lefebvre, 14-16. Numéro spécial de Canadian Children’s Literature / Littérature canadienne pour la jeunesse, no. 113-114 (Printemps-été 2004). (Sommaire) (Full Text)
“Conference Weather” (haiku). English Studies in Canada 30, no. 2 (June 2004): 190.
«Souvenirs d’enfance, procédures et produits». Présentation. Dans «Remembrances of Childhood», sous la direction de Carole H. Carpenter, 8-9. Numéro spécial de Canadian Children’s Literature / Littérature canadienne pour la jeunesse, no. 111-112 (Automne-hiver 2003). (Sommaire) (Texte intégral)
Review of Authors and Audiences: Popular Canadian Fiction in the Early Twentieth Century, by Clarence Karr (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2000). University of Toronto Quarterly 72, no. 1 (Winter 2002-2003): 470-71.
Review of Remembering Lucy Maud Montgomery, by Alexandra Heilbron (Dundurn Press, 2001). Jointly with Mary Henley Rubio. University of Toronto Quarterly 72, no. 1 (Winter 2002-2003): 506-7.
“The Gender Zones.” Review of Boys’ Own: An Anthology of Canadian Fiction for Young Readers, edited by Tim Wynne-Jones (Viking, 2001); Girls’ Own: An Anthology of Canadian Fiction for Young Readers, edited by Sarah Ellis (Viking, 2001). Canadian Children’s Literature / Littérature canadienne pour la jeunesse, no. 108 (Winter 2002): 73-78. (Contents) (Full Text)
“Ice and Water.” Review of Slapshots 1: The Stars from Mars, by Gordon Korman (Scholastic, 1999); Island 1: Shipwreck, by Gordon Korman (Scholastic, 2001). Canadian Children’s Literature / Littérature canadienne pour la jeunesse, no. 108 (Winter 2002): 83-86. (Contents) (Full Text)
“Belated Acknowledgements.” Review of L.M. Montgomery and Canadian Culture, edited by Irene Gammel and Elizabeth Epperly (University of Toronto Press, 1999). Essays on Canadian Writing, no. 77 (Fall 2002): 90-99.
“The Lives of Girls and Boys.” Editorial. Jointly with Marie C. Davis. Canadian Children’s Literature / Littérature canadienne pour la jeunesse, no. 105-106 (Spring-Summer 2002): 7-8. (Contents) (Full Text)
“They Shoot, They Score!” Review of fourteen titles in the Sports Stories series (James Lorimer, 1998-2001). Canadian Children’s Literature / Littérature canadienne pour la jeunesse, no. 104 (Winter 2001): 76-77. (Contents)
“‘Just Like Manitoba’: Didacticism, Universalism, Eurocentrism.” Review of Naomi: The Strawberry Blonde of Pippu Town, by Karmel Schreyer (Great Plains Fiction, 1999). Canadian Children’s Literature / Littérature canadienne pour la jeunesse, no. 100-101 (Winter 2000-Spring 2001): 147-48. (Contents)
“Meet the ‘Other Marilla’: An Interview with Elizabeth Mawson.” Kindred Spirits, Autumn 1999, 10-12.
“Avonlea without Anne.” In The Lucy Maud Montgomery Album, compiled by Kevin McCabe, 363-65. Toronto: Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 1999.