Maria Nikolajeva is a Swedish literary critic and academic, specialising in children's literature. She was professor of Education at the University of Cambridge and Professorial Fellow of Homerton College, Cambridge from 2008 until her retirement in July 2020. She was also Director of Cambridge's Centre for Children's Literature from 2010. She previously taught at Stockholm University and Åbo Akademi University.

Aesthetic approaches to children's literature
2005
ISBN 9781283625913
Beyond Babar
2006
ISBN 9781461656791
Selma Lagerlöf ur ryskt perspektiv
1991
ISBN 9789163004056
Återkommande mönster i Selma Lagerlöfs författarskap
1995
ISBN 9789163039003
The rhetoric of character in children's literature
2002
ISBN 9780810842502
The magic code
1988
ISBN 9789122012009
From Mythic to Linear
1991
ISBN 9780810849525
Aspects and Issues in the History of Children's Literature
1995
ISBN 9780313369285
Voices from far away
1995
ISBN 9789197174169
Children's literature comes of age
1996
ISBN 9781317358275
När Sverige erövrade Ryssland
1996
ISBN 9789171393081
How picturebooks work
2000
ISBN 9780815334866
Power, voice and subjectivity in literature for young readers
2009
ISBN 9781135238209
Om hur
2010
ISBN 9789113026237
Till en evakuerad igelkott
2012
ISBN 9789170611124
Retórica del personaje en la literatura para niños
2014
ISBN 9786071616586
Reading for learning
2014
ISBN 9789027269959