The Lion and the Unicorn (journal)

The Lion and the Unicorn is an academic journal founded in 1977. It examines children's literature from a scholarly perspective covering the publishing industry, regional authors, comparative studies, illustration, popular culture, and other topics.^[1] 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 Lion and the Unicorn

Discipline	Children's literature
Language	English
Publication details
History	1977-present
Publisher	Johns Hopkins University Press (United States)
Frequency	Triannually
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Lion Unic.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
ISSN	0147-2593 (print) 1080-6563 (web)
OCLC no.	31871270
Links
Journal homepage Online access

The journal is published three times each year in January, April, and September by the Johns Hopkins University Press. Circulation is 686^{[citation needed]} 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.

See also

• Children's literature periodicals
• Children's literature criticism

• Children's literature portal