创办于1972年的美国《儿童文学》杂志,是当代西方儿童文学理论批评界最重要的学术园地之一。三十余年来,该刊以“学术多元”和“文化多元”的办刊理念和学术特征,在很大程度上推动了当代西方英语儿童文学理论批评的发展,也在一定程度上记录了当代西方英语儿童文学研究作为一门独立学科日渐走向成熟的历史进程。 The “Children’s Literature” magazine, founded in 1972, is one of the most important academic fields in contemporary western children’s literature theory and criticism. For more than thirty years, the journal’s concept and academic features of “multiple academic schools” and “cultural pluralism” have greatly promoted the development of theoretical criticism of contemporary western English children’s literature, To some extent, the history of contemporary western English children’s literature research as an independent discipline matures.