About the Journal
Libri & Liberi is published twice a year in printed and electronic form <www.librietliberi.org > or on the HRČAK portal <https://hrcak.srce.hr/
L&L is currently referenced in ERIH PLUS (European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences), Scopus, Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), a new edition of Web of Science™ (Thomson Reuters), MLA International Bibliography, MLA Directory of Periodicals, ULRICHSWEB − Global Serials Directory, CEEOL (Central and Eastern European Online Library), CEJSH (Central European Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities), ROAD (Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources) and Hrčak (Croatian Portal of Academic Journals). Libri & Liberi is included in Classe A pubblicati da ANVUR (L'Agenzia nazionale di valutazione del sistema universitario e della ricerca, Italy) and belongs to the A1 category of academic journals in Croatia. Articles in Libri & Liberi are also accessible through EBSCOhost research databases.
Fields of interest
Libri & Liberi publishes peer-reviewed academic papers on various topics in the field of children's literature and young adult literature and on related topics, on their wider cultural contexts, and on their intercultural contacts in the fields of literature and the media. The journal particularly appreciates interdisciplinary approaches and intermediality.
Submitted articles may address topics in various areas of expertise, such as:
- history of children’s literature and young adult literature;
- theory of literature and cultural theory in relation to children’s literature;
- comparative children’s literature;
- Croatian children’s literature in a wider international context;
- translation;
- children’s poetry;
- narratives;
- comics;
- historical and theoretical aspects;
- picturebooks;
- drama, theatre and puppetry;
- multimedia;
- comics and graphic novels;
- animation and children’s movies;
- folklore, oral literature and storytelling;
- cultural aspects of childhood and adolescence;
- literary postmodernism;
- popular culture, popular literature and children as recipients;
- wider cultural contexts of children’s literature and young adult literature;
- intertextuality and intermediality;
- magazines for children and young people;
- informational literature;
- fantasy;
- problem novels;
- bildungsroman;
- censorship and self-censorship;
- illustration and visual communication;
- visual literacy;
- publishing children’s books;
- libraries;
- set texts in education (required reading) and promoting reading;
- understanding literature at preschool and school age;
- teaching literature at various levels of education;
- reading and teaching literature in a foreign language;
as well as in other related areas of interest.
