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Books and Boundaries: Writers and their Audiences
Edited by Pat Pinsent
(NCRCL Papers 10) £14.00  ISBN 0 9546384 3 3
May 2004

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This book examines the way in which children’s books are increasingly read by adults. The papers focus on topics such as ‘cross-over’ books which transgress the boundaries between children’s and adult’s fiction; the marketing of books for specific audiences and the adult appeal of children’s picture books. The proceedings of the NCRCL/IBBY conference held at University Surrey, Roehampton in November 2003. 

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Contents

Introductory

 

Pat Pinsent

Crossing the Boundaries

 

How the Authors of Children’s Books Perceive their Audience: Penelope Lively, Ann Thwaite, Theresa Breslin, Linda Newbery, Elizabeth Laird & Neil Gaiman

Section One: Picture Books for All Ages

Catherine Buscall

Mummy, Why is Daddy Reading my Picturebook?: The Magical World(s) of Claude Ponti

Sarah Godek

Fabulous Frankensteins: The Adaptation of an Adult Novel in Children’s Picture Books.

Penni Cotton

Adult Challenges from the European Picture Book

Mieke Desmet

The Universe of Jimmy: Creating Picture Books for Adults in Taiwan

Section Two: Crossing the Boundaries -Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Peter Bramwell

Border Crossing in Historical Fiction

Rachel Falconer

Tolkien, Dante, and Crossover Epic

Natasha Baker

The Hero in Crossover Narrative throughout the Ages.

Maiko Miyoshi

Boundaries between Fact and Fiction: Autobiographical Narratives

Katharn Turner Artemis Fowl and the Poisoned Chalice: The Perils of Popularity

Clare Walsh

Troubling the Boundary between Fiction for Adults and Fiction for Children: A Study of Melvin Burgess

Jenny Kendrick

On the Borders of Adult Knowledge: Children Growing Up in William Mayne’s A Game of Dark, Midnight Fair & Cradlefasts

Section Three: Crossing Over – The International Dimension

Belen Gonzalez Cascallana

Crossing Over: The Reception of ‘Kiddult’ Fiction in Spain

Gaby Thomson-Wohlgemuth

The Case of East German Children’s Literature: Crossover and Dual Address in a Socialist Society

Sue Neale

Daniel Pennac: A Storyteller in Search of an Audience

Sophie Mackay

Jostein Gaarder’s Sophie’s World: Where there’s no Room for Sitting Comfortably

Conclusion

Market Forces at Work: Julia Eccleshare, Gillie Russell, Brenda Gardner, Marilyn Brocklehurst & James Naughtie

 

 

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