PhD. dissertations written on children's litreature defended in Iran so far:

A Study of Capacities For Rewriting and Recreating the Stories of Kalile va Damne for Children, Farzaneh Moeini, Persian Language and Literature, Shiraz University, Sep 2017.

A Comparative Study of the Model of Empowerment in Six Selected Iranian and English Young Adult Novels, Fatemeh Farnia, English Language and Literature, Shiraz University, Feb 2017.

Decentralization Techniques in Picture-Story Books (age groups A and B), A Comparative Study in Arabic and Persian, Boshra Mirghaderi, Arabic Language and Literature, Isfahan University, Feb. 2015.

‌A Comparative Investigation of Philosophical-Educational Bases and Displaying Devices of "Authority and Freedom" in Persian and English Child's Stories, Ali Shirvani Shiri, Philosophy of Education, Isfahan University, Oct., 2013.

Towards Developing a Philosophy of Children's Literature, Morteza khosronejad, History and Philosophy of Education, Shiraz University, 2002