Kimberley Reynolds is Professor of Children's Literature in the School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics at Newcastle University in the UK. She was the first Associate Editor for Children's Literature for the 7th edition of The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Recent publications include Radical Children's Literature: Future Visions and Aesthetic Transformations (2007), which received the ChLA Award in 2009, and Children's Literature Studies: A Handbook to Research (2011).