This volume examines how texts addressed to children are meant to assist socioemotional education and whether we put forward adultist assumptions around such conceptualisations of the emotional.
Macarena García-González is Ramón y Cajal Senior Researcher at University Pompeu Fabra University, where she directs the interdisciplinary research group JOVIS, on childhood and youth studies. Her publications include two monographs -Origin Narratives: The Stories We Tell Children about Immigration and International Adoption (2017), and Enseñando a sentir: Repertorios éticos en la ficción infantil (2021)-, as well as several articles and book chapters on children's literature, reading promotion, culture and education. She is the Associate Editor at the Children's Literature in Education journal.