Download or read book New World Orders in Contemporary Children's Literature written by C. Bradford and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-03-13 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book demonstrates how contemporary children's texts draw on utopian and dystopian tropes in their projections of possible futures. The authors explore the ways in which children's texts respond to social change and global politics. The book argues that children's texts are crucially implicated in shaping the values of their readers.