Alison Waller on Young Adult fiction, memories of childhood reading and literary ordinariness

Alison Waller celebrates the launch of the new International Journal for Young Adult Literature, the first dedicated space for Young Adult literature, by telling us about her work on memories of childhood reading, which included speaking to adults who she then asked to reread their favourite childhood books, prompting fascinating results. She also shares details of her new project working on ordinariness in Young Adult literature, a genre usually thought of in terms of extraordinary superpowers, emotions and experiences.