School Stories: From Bunter to Buckeridge                       
Edited by Nicholas Tucker
(NCRCL papers 4) 
£12.00   ISBN 0 9546384 1 7
2003

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School stories have now been going strong for over a hundred years.  This is not surprising: no other fictional genre offers so much potential drama, all contained in one comparatively small space. For older readers they provide nostalgia plus occasionally sharper memories, often long forgotten. For children they can provide a glimpse of an ideal future as well as a warning about possible tribulations still to come. Ranging from extreme fantasy to today's often grimmer realities, these stories cover every important emotion from broad humour to fear, from trials and testing moments to final triumph.

Nicholas Tucker

This collection of papers constitutes the proceedings of a Children's Literature Conference held at Roehampton Institute in London in 1998. There are papers by Mary Cadogan, Rosemary Auchmuty, Isabel Quigly, Geoff Fox, Adèle Geras and Pat Pinsent and there is a brief introduction by Nicholas Tucker. The wide ranging papers consider the development of the school story by examining many classics of the genre.

Contents
Introduction
Nicholas Tucker	Introduction
Isabel Quigly	The School Story as Adult Novel
Robert Kirkpatrick	From Blue-Coat Boy to Buckeridge: The History of the Boys' School Story
Mary Cadogan	Frank Richards: Heritage and Influence
Jeffrey Richards	From Greyfriars to Grange Hill
Rosemary Auchmuty	The School Story: From Brazil to Bunty
Siv Jansson	Angels, Saviours and Schoolgirls: The Representations of the 'Robin' in Elinor Brent-Dyer's Chalet School Stories
Geoff Fox	Tom Smith's Schooldays: School Stories for Boys in the Postwar Story Papers
Nicholas Tucker	Anthony Buckeridge: The Last of the Line?
Adèle Geras	Going to School: Reading and Writing School Stories
Michael Rupert Taylor	Homosexuality and Boys' School Stories in the 1960s
Pat Pinsent	From Tyke Tyler to Harry Potter: Recent Variations on the School Theme