Childhood Remembered   
Edited by Kimberley Reynolds
£12.00    ISBN 0 9546384 2 5
2003

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The proceedings of the 4th annual IBBY/NCRCL Children's Literature Conference held at University of Surrey Roehampton. The papers are organised in four sections: papers which deal primarily with childhood remembered as reflected in the history of children's literature; those which take a more theoretical approach to the subject; talks presented by or about children's writers and illustrators; and papers which deal with 'childhood remembered' in children's literature from other countries. This book includes papers by Adèle Geras, Mary Hoffman, Christine Wilkie, Celia Vázquez, Nicholas Orme, Marian Keyes and Gillian Lathey and has a brief introduction by Kimberley Reynolds. The wide ranging papers examine childhood as it is reflected and remembered through children's literature texts.

Contents
Introduction
Kimberley Reynolds	Introduction
Part 1: Historical Approaches
Nicholas Orme	The Earliest Children's Literature in England
Charlie Etherington	Punch and Judy (But Not Quite as We Remember It!)
Susan Bailes	Doll Narratives: Themes of Loss and Sacrifice
Mary Davidson	Tantrums in the Family: Mrs Molesworth's Victorian Children
Marian Keyes	Remembering Childhood with the Renier Collection
Pamela Cox	'Home Girls': Writing Delinquency and Neglect in Early Twentieth -Century Britain
Nicola Humble	Eccentric Families in the Fiction of Adolescence From the 1920s to the 1940s
Part 2: Critical Approaches
Christine Wilkie	The Garden, the Wolf, and the Dream of Childhood: From Phillippa Pearce to Gillian Cross
Joe Kelleher	Delinquency and Dreams: Redeeming the Sea of Stories
Susan Hancock	Miniature Worlds
Part 3: Writers and Illustrators
Adèle Geras	Packing and Unpacking: Rearranging the Past
Mary Hoffman	Dragons in the Wallpaper
Part 4: Childhood Remembered in Children's Literature form other Countries
Gillian Lathey	The Impossible Legacy: Recollections of Nazi Childhoods
Celia Vázquez	Enid Blyton in Spain
Aileen Withington	Fiona French: A Journey in Style
Valerie Coghlan	Looking Forward, Looking Back