An Invitation to Explore: New International Perspectives in Children’s Literature

Edited by Laura Atkins, Nolan Dalrymple, Michele Gill, Liz Thiel
paperback £18.00   ISBN:    978 0 9552106 3 1
2008

An Invitation to Explore brings together a collection of essays which are representative of the breadth of research currently being undertaken in the field of Children's Literature. The papers explore the literature through a variety of theoretical perspectives and include both contemporary and historical material as the subject of enquiry. Originating from the third, annual Child and the Book post-graduate conference in 2006, the papers are international in scope, representing the range of scholars engaged in this ever expanding field of research.

Contents Introduction: The Worldliness of Children’s Literature Peter Hunt A Future without a Past: Technology and History in Three Children’s Science Fiction Novels Noga Applebaum Graphic Images: Depicting the Bombing of Hiroshima in the Graphic Novel Barefoot Gen Laura Atkins One Hundred Years of Children’s Literature in Iran Farzad Boobani Greek Picturebooks in a Process of Change: Towards the Construction of an Energetic Reader Anastasia Economidou Alex Rider: Mission Possible - Empowering Boy Readers through Fiction Michelle Gill Apocalyptic Youth Fiction and Limit: The Politics of the Outside Cassie Hague    ‘Nurs’d in ocean’s pearly caves’: The Limitations of Evolutionary Theory and the Fallacy of Free Will in Charles Kingsley’s The Water Babies Zoe Jaques Fiction for all Ages?: ‘All-ages-literature’ as a New Trend in Late Modern Norwegian Children’s Literature Ase Marie Ommundsen Colonialism and War in Children’s Literature: Korea 1935-1953 Sarah Park        The New Hero: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, The Prisoner of Zenda, and a New Era of Adventure Alison Pipitone Activating the Shadow: Dark Fiction for Children Jennifer Sattaur Violets or Violence? Anarchism in Children’s Literature Ulf Schöne        An Invitation to Explore: David Almond's Early Children's Texts and the Adolescent Reader Liz Thiel