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The NCRCL encourages students of the MA in Children's Literature programme to publish where possible. The following list represents a selection of publications by past and present students:

• Liz Thiel, Elaine Lomax, Bridget Carrington, Mary Sebag Montefiore, A Victorian Quartet: Four Forgotten Women Writers ('Brenda', Hesba Stretton, Flora Shaw, Mrs. Molesworth), Lichfield: Pied Piper Publishing (2008). With an introduction by Kimberley Reynolds.
• Noga Applebaum, ‘Electronic Texts and Adolescent Agency: Computers and the Internet in Contemporary Children’s Literature’, in Reynolds, K. ed. Modern Children’s Literature: An Introduction, Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, 2005.
• Laura Atkins, ‘Creepy Kids: The Use of the Child’s Perspective in Films of the Uncanny’ in Children’s Literature and Childhood Performance, ed. Kim Reynolds, Lichfield: Pied Piper Publishing, 2003.
• Julie Barton has an article called ‘The Monsters of Depression in Children’s Literature: Of Dementors, Spectres and Pictures’ in The Journal of Children’s Literature Studies, vol. 2, issue 1, March 2005.
• Julie Barton, ‘Positive and Powerful: The Adolescent Character and Implied Reader in Alchemy and Hexwood’, in The Journal of Children’s Literature Studies vol.2,  issue 3, November 2005.
• Peter Bramwell, 'Patterns in teenage fiction of the last decade...' in New Review of Children's Literature and Librarianship, vol. 8, 2002.
• Peter Bramwell, ‘Opening the Box of Delights’ in Children’s Literature in Education, Vol. 33, No.2, June 2002.
• Becky Butler, ‘Different Lives: Disability in Contemporary Children’s Literature’. The Journal of Children’s Literature Studies, Vol. 2 Issue 1, 2005.
• Becky Butler: ‘Visitors in the Palace of Death: Anti-Semitism and Disability in Two Contemporary Novels for Children’, New Review of Children’s Literature and Librarianship, Vol. 12 Issue 2, 2006.
• Becky Butler: ‘The Wheelchair Girls: Disability in Four Contemporary Children’s Books’. Book Trust Website

• Leilani Clark, ‘Speaking Pictures: the role of sound and orality in audio presentations of children’s picture books’, New Review of Children's Literature and Librarianship, vol. 9, no.1, December 2003.
• Nadia Crandall, ‘The UK Children’s Book Business 1995-2004: A strategic Analysis’, New Review of Children's Literature and Librarianship, vol. 12, no.1, April 2006.
• Nadia Crandall, ‘Children’s Authors’ and ‘Children’s Publishers in the UK: New Models for a New Marketplace’, New Review of Children's Literature and Librarianship, vol. 12, no.2, November 2006.

• Susanna Davidson, 'Taking ‘Time Out’: The Carnivalesque in Shirley Hughes’s The Trouble with Jack, the Tales of Beatrix Potter and Robert Westall’s Yaxley’s Cat’, The Journal of Children’s Literature Studies, vol.1, issue 1, March 2004.
• Lesely Delaney, ‘Little Women, Good Wives: Victorian Constructions of Womanhood in the Girls’ Own Annual 1927’, Children’s Literature in Education, Vol. 34, No. 1, March 2003.
• Mieke K.T. Desmet, ‘Intertextuality/Intervisuality in Translation: ‘The Jolly Postman’s Intercultural Journey from Britain to the Netherlands’, Children’s Literature in Education, Vol. 32, No.1, March 2001.

• Felicity Ferguson: ‘Making the Muscular Briton’, Children’s Literature in Education, Vol. 37, No. 3 September 2006.

• Sarah Godek: ‘The Great Tunes of the Hough: Music and Song in Alan Garner’s The Stone Book Quartet’ in Children’s Literature in Education, Vol. 35, No. 1, March 2004.
• Sarah Godek, ‘Fantasy – Postwar, Postmodern, Postcolonial: Houses in Postwar Fantasy’ in Reynolds, K. ed. Modern Children’s Literature: An Introduction, Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, 2005.

• June Hopper, on Satoshi Kitamura, The Journal of Children’s Literature Studies, vol. 4, issue 1, March 2007.

• Vanessa Joosen, ‘ Feminist Criticism and the Fairy Tale’, New Review of Children’s Literature and Librarianship, Vol. 10, No.1, April 2004.
• Vanessa Joosen, ‘Fairy Tale Retellings: Between Art and Pedagogy, Children’s Literature in Education, Vol. 36, No.2, June 2005.
• Vanessa Joosen has a review in The Journal of Children’s Literature Studies, vol. 3, issue 1, March 2006.

• Joanna Kirk, ‘Challenging Authority: The Metafictional Story of Tracy Beaker’ The Journal of Children’s Literature Studies, vol. 3 issue 3, November 2006.

• Paul Nancarrow, ‘The Big Bad Wolf and Literary Enculturation: The Importance of Intertextuality in Children’s Reading Development and its Culmination in the Adolescent Reader’, The Journal of Children’s Literature Studies, vol.1, issue 1, March 2004.

• Pat Pinsent, ed. Out of the Attic, Pied Piper Publishing, 2006. This edited book included articles by former MA students Jenny Kendrick, Cheri Lloyd, Chris Clark, Sue Phelan, Clive Barnes, Peter Bramwell, and Pam Robson.
• Catherine Posey, ‘Spiritual Knowing in Green Knowe: Representations of Spirituality in Children’s Fantasy’,The Journal of Children’s Literature Studies, vol. 2, issue 2, July 2005.

• Liz Thiel, 'The Dark Horse: Ruby Ferguson and the Jill Pony Stories,' The Lion and The Unicorn, Vol. 26, No 1. (2002).
• Madelyn Travis, ‘The Goddess and the Wasteland: Patriarchy and the 'Other' in 'The Chronicles of Prydain' by Lloyd Alexander and 'The Dark is Rising' Sequence by Susan Cooper’, The Journal of Children’s Literature Studies, vol. 3, issue 2, July 2006.

• Kay Waddilove, on the depiction of fathers in picture books, The Journal of Children’s Literature Studies, vol. 4, issue 1, March 2007.

• Akiko Yamazaki, ‘Why Change Names? On the Translation of Children’s Books’ in Children’s Literature in Education, Vol. 33, No.1, March 2002.