Professor Karín Lesnik-Oberstein has just published a new, edited, volume, for which she has also written the introduction and first chapter, and which includes contributions from a wide range of colleagues from CIRCL (The Graduate Centre for International Research in Childhood: Literature, Culture, Media (CIRCL)), including here at Reading Dr Sue Walsh and Dr Neil Cocks. The book, as with all CIRCL edited volumes, research and teaching, follows through the implications of considering the reading of perspectives and textuality for issues of identity, including questioning underpinning assumptions such as ‘voice’, ‘agency’, ‘affect’ and ‘the body’.