Repetition is of course an important part of children's literature with its connections to both fairy tales and fables, so the "curious gap" mentioned in the introduction is curious indeed.
This collection of articles aims to remedy the situation by focusing on seriality in children's literature.
The anthology is the result of a symposium, “Narrative, Repetition, and Texts for Young People,” that was held in June 2011 at the University of Winnipeg in Canada, and in many ways this collection of articles is breaking new and fertile ground.
