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| Illustrations | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Preface to the Third Edition | |
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| Part I | |
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| Defining Children's Literature | |
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| Critical Opinion: Reading Children's Books | |
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| Protecting Children's Literature | |
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| The Imaginative Uses of Secrecy in Children's Literature | |
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| An Eye for Thresholds | |
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| Interpreting the Past: Reflections of an Historical Novelist | |
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| Progressive Utopia, Or, How to Grow Up Without Growing Up | |
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| Alice, Huck, Pinnochio, and the Blue Fairy: Bodies Real and Imagined | |
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| Of Style and the Stylist | |
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| Fin de Siecle | |
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| Part II | |
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| Runes to Ward Off Sorrow: Rhetoric of the English Nursery Rhyme | |
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| Woods and Castles, Towers and Huts: Aspects of Setting in the Fairy Tale | |
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| Unknown Childhood | |
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| A Dissolving Ghost | |
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| Deeper Than You Think | |
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| Part III | |
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| Turtles All the Way Down | |
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| Some Presumptuous Generalizations About Fantasy | |
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| Fantasy: Why Kids Read It, Why Kids Need It | |
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| Dr Seuss and Dr Einstein: Children's Books and Scientific Imagination | |
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| Part IV | |
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| Science Fiction as Myth and Metaphor | |
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| Let There Be Dragons | |
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| What is it About Science Fiction? | |
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| Part V | |
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| The Poem On Page 81 | |
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| Strict and Loose Nonsense: Two Worlds of Children's Verse | |
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| Part VI | |
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| What is a Picture Book? | |
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| How Picture Books Work | |
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| Black and White Set the Tone | |
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| The Construction of Texts: Picture Books and the Metafictive | |
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| Part VII | |
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| The Absent Mother: Women Against Women in Old Wives' Tales | |
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| Women's Coming of Age in Fantasy | |
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| Fathers Fare Poorly in Children's Books | |
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| Part VIII | |
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| Innocence and Experience in the Young Adult Romance | |
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| The Adolescent Novel of Ideas | |
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| Part IX | |
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| The Turbulent Years | |
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| Trends in Children's Books Today | |
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| Cultural Politics from a Writer's Point of View | |
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| There Was Once | |
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| The Lion, The Witch, and The Drug Addict | |
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| Greening the Child | |
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| Abandonment: The New Realism of the Eighties | |
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| Taking Political Stock: New Theoretical and Critical Approaches to Anglo-American Children's Literature in the 1980s | |
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| Epilogue: Some Thoughts on Conecting | |
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| Notes on Contributors | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| Index | |