Children’s Literature and Childhood in Performance   
Edited by Kimberley Reynolds
(NCRCL papers 9)
£14.00 ISBN 0 9546384 0 9
2003

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We are increasingly presented with alternative ways of viewing children’s literature and this collection of papers considers the advantages, potential and problems of children’s literature in performance. This new volume includes papers from the proceedings of the IBBY/NCRCL Conference held at Roehampton in November 2002. All the contributors consider some aspect of children’s literature and how it has been portrayed and enacted on television. on stage, on audio cassettes, as film and as animation. The book includes papers by Peter Hollindale, Gillian Cross, Fiona Collins and Pat Pinsent and has an introduction by Kimberley Reynolds. The wide ranging papers examine subjects as diverse as adapting texts for TV, the ethics of using child actors, animating picture books and storytelling as performance art.

Contents
Introduction
Kimberley Reynolds	Children's Literature and Childhood in Performance
Child Performers
Peter Hollindale	The Professional Child: Performing Lord of the Flies
Michael Newton	The Puppet's Becoming: Dolls, Toys and Puppets in Films for Children
Laura Atkins	Creepy Kids: Childhood and Knowing in Two Films of the Uncanny
Performing Childhood
Amy Moore	From Kettles to Cauldrons: Girls' Play Upon the Stage in Alcott's Comic Tragedies
Rosemary Johnston	'All the World's a Stage': Children's Literature as Performance
Adapting Children's Texts
Gillian Cross	How Do They Do the Eyes? Televising the Demon Headmaster
Vanessa Joosen	Emil and the Detectives in Post-modern Berlin
Fiona Collins	From Picture Book to Animated Film
Mary E. Hine	Adapting Margaret Mahy's The Tricksters for Studio Theatre: An Experiment in Textual Intervention
Leilani Clark	Children's Picture Books in Performance
Storytelling and Performing for Children
Adrienne Scullion	But Why? But Why? But Why? Storytelling and Performance in New Drama for Children
Patrick Ryan	LISTEN UP! a Storytelling Residency Involving Schools in the Western Education and Library Board, Northern Ireland
Pat Pinsent	The Storyteller in Children's Fiction