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| About the Contributors | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Chapter Abstracts | |
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| Adults and Children's Literature | |
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| The Fundamentals of Children's Literature Criticism: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass | |
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| Randall Jarrell's The Bat-Poet Poets, Children, and Readers in an Age of Prose | |
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| Arnold Lobel's Frog and Toad Together as a Primer for Critical Literacy | |
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| Blending Genres and Crossing Audiences: Harry Potter and the Future of Literary Fiction | |
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| Pictures and Poetics | |
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| Wanda's Wonderland: Wanda G�g and Her Millions of Cats | |
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| A Cross-Written Harlem Renaissance: Langston Hughes's The Dream Keeper | |
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| Dumbo, Disney, and Difference: Walt Disney Productions and Film as Children's Literature | |
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| Redrawing the Comic-Strip Child: Charles M. Schulz's Peanuts as Cross-Writing | |
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| The Cat in the Hippie: Dr. Seuss, Nonsense, the Carnivalesque, and the Sixties Rebel | |
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| Wild Things and Wolf Dreams: Maurice Sendak, Picture-Book Psychologist | |
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| Reimagining the Monkey King in Comics: Gene Luen Yang's American Born Chinese | |
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| Reading History/Learning Race and Class | |
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| Froggy's Little Brother: Nineteenth-Century Evangelical Writing for Children and the Politics of Poverty | |
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| History in Fiction: Contextualization as Interpretation in Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped | |
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| Tom Sawyer, Audience, and American Indians | |
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| Living with the Kings: Class, Taste, and Family Formation in Five Little Peppers and How They Grew | |
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| A Daughter of the House: Discourses of Adoption in L. M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables | |
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| Where in America Are You, God?: Judy Blume, Margaret Simon, and American National Identity | |
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| Let Freedom Ring: Land, Liberty, Literacy, and Lore in Mildred Taylor's Logan Family Novels | |
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| "What Are Young People to Think?": The Subject of Immigration and the Immigrant Subject in Francisco Jim�nez's The Circuit | |
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| Innocence and Agency | |
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| "My Book and Heart Shall Never Part": Reading, Printing, and Circulation in the New England Primer | |
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| Castaways: The Swiss Family Robinson, Child Bookmakers, and the Possibilities of Literary Flotsam | |
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| Tom Brown and the Schoolboy Crush: Boyhood Desire, Hero Worship, and the Boys' School Story | |
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| Peter Pan as Children's Theater: The Issue of Audience | |
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| Jade and the Tomboy Tradition | |
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| Happily Ever After: Free to Be… You and Me, Second-Wave Feminism, and 1970s American Children's Culture | |
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| Paradise Refigured: Innocence and Experience in His Dark Materials | |
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| Index | |