Children's Studies: Core Journals

Bookbird aims to communicate new ideas to the whole community of readers interested in children's books. It is open to any topic in the field of international children's literature. 1998-current.

CJCR aims to encourage a deeper understanding of the rights of children. It is international in scope and content, and encourages diverse approaches to the subject.

Interdisciplinary forum for research relating to children in contemporary global society that spans divisions between geographical regions, disciplines, social and cultural contexts, and applied and basic research. 1993-current.

Children & Society is an interdisciplinary journal publishing high quality research and debate on all aspects of health, education, and childhood welfare. 1997-current.

Children's Geographies provides an international forum to discuss issues that impact upon the geographical worlds of children and young people under the age of 25 and of their families. 2003-current

Children's Literature publishes theoretically-based articles that address key issues in the field. Each volume includes articles, essays, and abstracts of dissertations of note. 1972-current.

Girlhood Studies provides a forum for the critical discussion of girlhood from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, and for the dissemination of current research and reflections on girls' lives to a broad, cross-disciplinary audience of scholars, researchers, practitioners in the fields of education, social service and health care and policy makers. 2008-current.

Global Studies in Childhood publishes articles that discuss issues associated with childhood in education, family, and community contexts from a global perspective. 2010-current.

Jeunesse is an interdisciplinary journal whose mandate is to publish research on and to provide a forum for discussion about cultural productions for, by, and about young people. 2010-current.