Intergenerational solidarity is required in all societies as a vital element of intergenerational relationships. It connects age-others who share common values and interests, feelings of affection and affinity, mutual care, responsibility and protection, thereby fostering the transfer of cumulative knowledge, experience and culture essential to human development. As such, intergenerational solidarity is a vital mechanism ensuring survival of the human species. The intensification of effective intergenerational affiliations is increasingly urgent in the face of global aging, changes in family structure, transnational family separation, precariatism, and political trends pitting younger and older generations against each other. The publications generated by the grant break new ground by exploring approaches to texts, authors, readers and scholarship itself that examine the diversity of intergenerational connections represented in children’s literature as expanding the typical understanding of children’s texts as educational tools used to influence young generations. These publications provide evidence for the socio-cultural and political importance of children’s culture in the development of intergenerational solidarity and empathy towards age-others. Finally, they innovatively position the field of children’s literature studies as a site of cross-generational bonds, creating possibilities for a socially impactful inquiry into the culture of childhood. The opening of academia to children’s ideas concerning research process, achieved in the course of the projects co-conducted with child researchers, constitutes further evidence for the validity of children’s literature scholarship practised against the dominating binaries of childhood and adulthood. As both projects have shown, scholarship conducted through creating a community involving children and adults (researchers, educators, parents), through an engagement with this community and through collective action performed by its members, results in ontoepistemic equality contributing to intergenerational solidarity. Both lines of inquiry pursued in the grant have not only created an innovative academic approach to children’s literature studies, but have also shown how this dynamically developing field addresses the current need for stronger social cohesion across generations.