Contents

Preface

Perry Nodelman

'There's Like No Books About Anything'

Peter Hunt

The Knowledge: What Do You Need to Know About Children's Literature?

Rebecca Rabinowitz

Messy New Freedoms: Queer Theory and Children's Literature 

Vanessa Joosen

The Apple That Was Not Poisoned: Intertextuality in Feminist Fairytale Adaptations

Karen Sands-O'Connor

All There in Black and White: Examining Race and Ethnicity in Children's Literature

Laura Atkins

A Publisher's Dilemma: The Place of the Child in the Publication of Children's Books

Ann Alston

There's No Place Like Home: The Ideological and Mythological Construction of House and Home in Children's Literature

David Rudd

Border Crossings: Carrie's War, Children's Literature, and Hybridity

Katrien Vloeberghs

Constructions of Childhood and Giorgio Agamben's Infantia

Virginie Douglas

Storytelling and the Adult/Child Relationship in Geraldine McCaughrean's A Pack of Lies, or the Dilemma of Children's Literature

Maiko Miyoshi

Who is the Writer: The Child or the Adult

Alison Waller

Is Holden Caulfield Still Real?: The Body of Theory and Practice in Young Adult Literature

Dominique Sandis

Proposing a Methodology for the Study of Nation(ality) in Children's Literature

Gabrielle Thomson-Wohlgemuth

Children's Literature in Translation from East to West