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| List of Figures | |
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| List of Plates | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Classic Texts | |
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| Louisa May Alcott, Little Women(1868-9) | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Little Women: Alcott's Civil War | |
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| 'Wake up and be a man': Little Women, Laurie, and the Ethic of Submission | |
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| Louisa May Alcott and the Rise of Gender-Specific Series Books | |
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| Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island (1881-2; 1883) | |
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| Introduction | |
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| My First Book: 'Treasure Island' | |
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| Slaves to Adventure: The Pure Story of Treasure Island | |
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| Treasure Island and the Romance of the British Civil Service | |
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| Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902) | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Peter Rabbit: Potter's Story | |
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| Aesop in the Shadows | |
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| Perspective and Point of View in The Tale of Peter Rabbit | |
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| Two Classic Poetry Collections: Robert Louis Stevenson, A Child's Garden of Verses (1885) and A.A. Milne, When We Were Very Young (1924) | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Contexts of A Child's Garden of Verses | |
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| A.A. Milne: When We Were Very Young | |
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| J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan (1904) | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Peter Pan and the Spectacle of the Child | |
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| A Hundred Years of Peter Pan | |
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| Peter Pan and the Pantomime Tradition | |
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| Arthur Ransome, Swallows and Amazons (1930) | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Lake District Novels | |
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| Arthur Ransome and Problems of Literary Assessment | |
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| Peter Pan, Wild Cat Island, and the Lure of the Real | |
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| Philippa Pearce, Tom's Midnight Garden (1958) | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Loneliness, Dreaming, and Discovery: Tom's Midnight Garden | |
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| Midnight Gardens, Magic Wells | |
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| Tom's Midnight Garden | |
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| Mildred Taylor, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (1976) | |
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| Introduction | |
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| A Search for Law and Justice in a Racist Society | |
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| Child Agency in Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry | |
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| The Role of Education in Mildred D. Taylor's Roll of Thunder | |
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| Philip Pullman, Northern Lights (1995) | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Dust as Metaphor in Philip Pullman | |
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| Obedience, Disobedience, and Storytelling in C.S. Lewis and Philip Pullman | |
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| Intertextuality | |
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| J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (1997) | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Phenomenon of Harry Potter, or Why All the Talk? | |
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| The Unthinkingness of Harry Potter | |
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| Harry Potter and the Reinvention of the Past | |
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| Contemporary Trends | |
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| Fiction for Adolescents: Melvin Burgess, Junk (1996) | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Sympathy for the Devil | |
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| 'And it's so real': Versions of Reality in Melvin Burgess's Junk | |
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| Radical Agendas: Beverley Naidoo, The Other Side of Truth (2000) | |
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| Introduction | |
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| A Writer's Journey: Retracing The Other Side of Truth | |
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| What is The Other Side of Truth? | |
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| Past Worlds: Jamila Gavin, Coram Boy (2000) | |
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| Introduction | |
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| New Historical Fiction for Children | |
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| Coram Boy as History | |
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| Future Worlds: Philip Reeve, Mortal Engines (2001) | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Carnivalizing the Future: Mortal Engines | |
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| Traction Cities, Postmodernisms, and Coming of Age: Mortal Engines | |
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| Further Reading for Part 2 | |
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| Index | |