The Lion and the Unicorn is an academic journal

Academic journal

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 founded in 1977. It examines children's literature

Children's literature

Children's literature is for readers and listeners up to about age twelve; it is often defined in four different ways: books written by children, books written for children, books chosen by children, or books chosen for children. It is often illustrated. The term is used in senses which sometimes...

 from a scholarly perspective covering the publishing industry, regional authors, comparative studies, illustration

Illustration

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, popular culture

Popular culture

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, and other topics. It provides unique author and editor interviews and a highly-regarded book review section. The journal frequently takes the form of special themed issues.

The journal is published three times each year in January, April, and September by the Johns Hopkins University Press

Johns Hopkins University Press

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. Circulation is 686 and the average length of an issue is 160 pages. The title of the journal was inspired from a scene in the 1871 book Through the Looking-Glass

Through the Looking-Glass

Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There is a work of literature by Lewis Carroll . It is the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland...

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External links

• Official website
• The Lion and the Unicorn at Project MUSE
  Project MUSE
  Project MUSE is an online database of current and back issues of peer-reviewed humanities and social sciences journals. It was founded in 1993 by Todd Kelley and Susan Lewis and is a project of the Johns Hopkins University Press and the Milton S. Eisenhower Library. It had support from the Mellon...