This volume discusses Childrens Literature through the ages from fairy tales and early didactic literature through to the classics of the nineteenth and twentieth-centuries and the modern day.
Part One: Introduction
Part Two: A Cultural Overview
Part Three: Texts, Writers and Contexts
Alternative Worlds: Carroll, Lewis and Wynne Jones
Real Lives: Alcott, Ashley and Wilson
Adventure Stories: Wyss, Ransome and Muchamore
Rhymes and Rhythms: Stevenson, Seuss and Zephaniah
Picture Books: Sendak, Browne and Child
Young Adult Fiction: Blume, Chambers and Larbalestier
Part Four: Critical Theories and Debates
Criticising Children's Literature
Gender and Sexuality
Children's Literature and Ideology
The Future of Children's Literature
Part Five: References and Resources
Timeline
Further Reading
Index
Lucy Pearson has a PhD in the Children's Publishing of the 1960s and 1970s from Newcastle University, where she has taught a range of children's literature courses and is a research collaborator with Seven Stories, Newcastle Universitys Centre for Childrens Literature. Herresearch interests are focused around the role of literature in society from an ideological and practical perspective, particularly in the context of childrens literature.
Peter Hunt is a Visiting Professor at Newcastle University and Professor Emeritus at Cardiff University. He an expert in the field of Childrens Literature and the author of An Introduction to Childrens Literature (OPUS, 1994).
