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Time Everlasting: Representations of Past, Present & Future in Children's Literature
Edited by Pat Pinsent

£16 ISBN 978 0 9552106 4 8
2007

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Crucial aspects of social, cultural and individual development are related to the child’s relationship with and understanding of past, present and future. As an abstract concept, the notion of time may be difficult for children to grasp, but numerous authors have presented young readers with engaging narratives that deal with time from a range of perspectives and through a variety of genres. For our 2006 conference, the British Section of IBBY (International Board on Books for Young People) and the NCRCL (National Centre for Research in Children’s Literature) want to look at how time is presented to young
readers at the dawn of a new millennium, looking back to the past which has shaped their present and forward to the future which young people will grow into.

The proceedings of the 2006 IBBY/NCRCL Conference

Contents

Introduction	1
Pat Pinsent
Section I: What is Time?	7
Meditations on Time in Children’s Fiction	11
Corinne Buckland
Time and Knowledge in Children’s Literature	23
Victor Watson
‘Once upon a Time’ into Altered States: Temporal Space, Liminality and ‘Flow’	36
Patrick Ryan
Time … Memory … Tense	45
Margaret Meek Spencer
Section 2: The Historical Past	47
Rosemary Sutcliff and the Cowboys: Imperial Frontiers in a Mid-Twentieth-Century Childhood	51
Clive Barnes
Childhood, the North-East, and the Past: The Place of History in the Adolescent Fiction of Robert Westall.	65
Nolan Dalrymple
‘Locating Leonardo: Researching da Vinci for The Medici Seal	74
Theresa Breslin
Discourses of History in Portuguese Children’s Literature: Intertextuality and Parody	78
Sara Reis da Silva
Heritage in Greek children’s literature	96
Marianna Spanaki
Reifying the unthinkable: Children’s Literature and the Holocaust	105
Rebecca Butler
Anne Frank's Fictional Heiresses: A Comparative Study of Three World War Two Historical 'Diaries'	110
Rose-May Pham Dinh
Dear Diary Now and Then	129
Maiko Miyoshi
Section 3: Time and Fantasy	137
‘This IS long ago’: The Manipulation of Time in Mopsa the Fairy	141
Marilyn Pemberton
Witches’ Time in Philip Pullman, C S Lewis and George MacDonald	156
William Gray
Pearce Everlasting: The Past, the Present and the Future in Fiction by Philippa Pearce	168
Morag Styles
Encomium for Philippa Pearce	177
Ann Thwaite
Section 4: Time and the Picturebook	181
I remember: An Exploration of how Memory is Portrayed in a Selection of Contemporary Picture Books	184
Beverley Croker
Multiple Chronotopes in Postmodern Metafictive Picturebooks	193
Arlene Hsing
Addressing the End of Time: Discovering Opportunities for New Dialogues around Death and Grieving in Crossover Picture Books	203
Maija-Liisa Harju
Section 5: Time and Science	211
‘With Meccano to the Stars!’	215
Farah Mendlesohn
The Near future in science-fiction for children and young adults	236
Jessica Yates
What Albert Did next: the Kuhnian Child in Science Writing for Young People	250
Alice Bell
Pandora’s Box, or the Ethics of Time Travel: Some reflections on the experience of writing a children’s time travel trilogy	268
Linda Buckley Archer

Introduction

Pat Pinsent

Section I: What is Time?

Corinne Buckland

Victor Watson

Patrick Ryan

Margaret Meek Spencer

Section 2: The Historical Past

Clive Barnes

Nolan Dalrymple

Theresa Breslin

Sara Reis da Silva

Marianna Spanaki

Rebecca Butler

Rose-May Pham Dinh

Maiko Miyoshi

Section 3: Time and Fantasy

Marilyn Pemberton

William Gray

Morag Styles

Ann Thwaite

Section 4: Time and the Picturebook

Beverley Croker

Arlene Hsing

Maija-Liisa Harju

Section 5: Time and Science

Farah Mendlesohn

Jessica Yates

Alice Bell

Linda Buckley Archer