Academic publications

Open Access Monograph

Rea, Lauren. Children’s Culture and Citizenship in Argentina: A History of Billiken Magazine (19192019). York: White Rose University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.22599/Billiken 


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Academic articles on Billiken

Rea, L. ‘The Newsboy’s Good Deed: Billiken Magazine’s Construction of Argentine Childhood in 1942‘. Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, 12, 1 (2019): 68-87. Open access

Rea, L. ‘Trajectories in Argentine Children’s Literature: Constancio C. Vigil and Horacio Quiroga‘. International Research in Children’s Literature, 12, 1 (2019) 76-89. Special issue on Curating National Histories of Children’s Literature. Open access version.

Rea, L.  ‘Education, Popular Literature and Future Citizenship in Argentina’s Billiken Children’s Magazine (1919–1944).Global Studies of Childhood, 8, 3 (2018): 281-291. Special issue on Childhood Studies and Popular Culture. Open access version.