Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Chapter I: Introducing the Study of Children's Literature
1. Introduction
2. Natalie Babbitt, "Happy Endings? Of Course, and Also Joy" (1970)
3. Aidan Chambers, "Axes for Frozen Seas" (1985)
4. Hazel Rochman, "Introduction: Beyond Political Correctness" (1993)
5. Naser Yusefi, "Good Books, Bad Books—and Who Decides Why" (1995)
Chapter II: Historical Children's Literature
1. Introduction
2. Gillian Adams, "Medieval Children's Literature: Its Possibility and Actuality" (1998)
3. Peter Hunt, "Passing on the Past: The Problem of Books That Are for Children and That Were for Children" (1996)
4. Susan R. Gannon, "Report from Limbo: Reading Historical Children's Literature Today" (1998)
Chapter III: The Picturebook
1. Introduction
2. Marcia Brown, "Distinction in Picture Books" (1958)
3. Deborah Stevenson, "Narrative in Picture Books or, The Paper That Should Have Had Slides" (1998)
4. Aidan Chambers, "Why 'Tell Me'?" (1993)
5. Aidan Chambers, From "Scenes from 'Tell Me' in Action" (1993)
6. Scott McCloud, From "The Vocabulary of Comics" and "Blood in the Gutters" in Understanding Comics (1993)
7. Emer O'Sullivan, "Translating Pictures" (1999)
Chapter IV: Poetry and Nursery Rhymes
1. Introduction
2. Perry Nodelmen, "The Nursery Rhymes of Mother Goose: A World without Glasses" (1987)
3. Morag Styles, "'From the Best Poets'?: How the Canon of Poetry for Children Is Constructed" (1998)
Chapter V: Fairy Tales and Fantasy
1. Introduction
2. Hugh Crago, "What Is a Fairy Tale?" (2003)
3. Anna E. Altmann, "Parody and Poesis in Feminist Fairy Tales" (1994)
4. C.W. Sullivan III, "Fantasy" (1992)
Chapter VI: Young Adult Literature
1. Introduction
2. Anne Scott Macleod, "The Journey Inward: Adolescent Literature in America, 1945-1995" (1997)
3. Virginia Monseau, From "Responding to Response" in Responding to Young Adult Literature (1996)
4. Geralde Schmidt-Dumont, "Poetic Encryption and 'Sex Scrubbed Clean': A Report from Germany" (1994)
5. Caroline Hunt, "Young Adult Literature Evades the Theorists" (1996)
Chapter VII: Drama and Theatre
1. Introduction
2. Sanjay Kumar, "Theatre for Children in India: An Instrument for Social Change?" (1998)
3. Jack Zipes, "Political Children's Theatre in the Age of Globalization" (2003)
4. "Wolfgang Schneider, "'Rosy Cheeks' and 'Shining Eyes’ as Criteria in Children's Theatre Criticism" (1995)
Chapter VIII: Film Adaptations
1. Introduction
2. Keith Mehlinger, "A Case Study of The Planet of Junior Brown" (2000)
3. A. Waller Hastings, "Moral Simplification in Disney's The Little Mermaid" (1993)
4. Shaul Bassi, "Traffic in the Jungle: Teachers, Lawyers, Doctors, and Animals in Three Kipling Films" (2001)
Chapter IX: Theoretical Explorations and Practical Issues
1. Introduction
2. Wendy Lamb, "Strange Business: The Publishing Point of View" (1998)
3. Margaret Mahy (Lyttelton), "The Writer in New Zealand: Building Bridges through Children's Books" (1996)
4. Perry Nodelman, "Fear of Children's Literature: What's Left (or Right) After Theory?" (1997)
5. Margaret Mackey, "Playing the Phase Space: Contemporary Forms of Fictional Pleasure" (1999)
Further Readings
Sources
Index
