Abstract

This panel will explore the conventions of books less frequently analyzed in classrooms and often overlooked by the scholarly world: young adult literature. Such undervalued literature often becomes the foundation for an individual's lifelong readership, therefore increasing the significance of children's and young adult literature in relation to its audience. We will be merging a comprehensive study of young adult literature with a specific application to rewritten fairy tales within that genre in order to prove the value of good young adult literature in its strong, believable characters; its foundations in tradition and folklore; and the beauty of the writing itself