Ralf Thiede is an associate professor of English at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA.
"""The sober title of this book fails to do justice to both the originality of Ralf Thiede’s contribution and the extraordinary range of relevant research on which it is based. … My copy of Thiede’s book is full of underscorings and marginal notes… a significant contribution by a polymathic scholar. Hugh Crago, Children's Literature Association Quarterly, 2020. ""The sober title of this book fails to do justice to both the originality of Ralf Thiede’s contribution and the extraordinary range of relevant research on which it is based. … My copy of Thiede’s book is full of underscorings and marginal notes… a significant contribution by a polymathic scholar. Hugh Crago, Children's Literature Association Quarterly, 2020."