Children's Literature: Classic Texts and Contemporary Trends (Paperback)

List of Figures.- List of Plates.- Acknowledgements.- Introduction; H.Montgomery & N.Watson.- PART I: CLASSIC TEXTS.- LOUISA MAY ALCOTT, LITTLE WOMEN (1868-9).- Introduction; N.Watson.- Little Women: Alcott's Civil War; J.Fetterley.- 'Wake up and be a man': Little Women, Laurie, and the Ethic of Submission; K.Parille.- Louisa May Alcott and the Rise of Gender-Specific Series Books; S.A.Wadsworth.- R.L.STEVENSON, TREASURE ISLAND (1881-2; 1883).- Introduction; S.Haslam.- My First Book: Treasure Island; R.L.Stevenson.- Slaves to Adventure: the Pure Story of Treasure Island; D.Loxley.- Treasure Island and the Romance of the British Civil Service; C.Parkes.- BEATRIX POTTER, THE TALE OF PETER RABBIT (1902).- Introduction; S.Goodman.- Peter Rabbit: Potter's Story; M.Mackey.- Aesop in the Shadows; P.Hollindale.- Perspective and Point of View in The Tale of Peter Rabbit; C.Scott.- TWO CLASSIC POETRY COLLECTIONS, R. L. STEVENSON: A CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES (1885) AND A.A.MILNE: WHEN WE WERE VERY YOUNG (1924).- Introduction; N.Watson.- The Contexts of A Child's Garden of Verses; M.Rosen.- A.A.Milne: When We Were Very Young; J.Wullschlager.- J.M.BARRIE, PETER PAN (1904).- Introduction; N.Watson.- Peter Pan and the Spectacle of the Child; J.Rose.- A Hundred Years of Peter Pan; P.Hollindale.- Peter Pan and the Pantomime Tradition; D. White and C.Tarr.- ARTHUR RANSOME, SWALLOWS AND AMAZONS (1930).- Introduction; S.Haslam.- The Lake District Novels; P.Hunt.- Arthur Ransome and Problems of Literary Assessment; N.Tucker.- Peter Pan, Wild Cat Island, and the Lure of the Real; A.Bogen.- PHILIPPA PEARCE, TOM'S MIDNIGHT GARDEN (1958).- Introduction; H.Montgomery.- Loneliness, Dreaming and Discovery: Tom's Midnight Garden; M.Rustin & M.Rustin.- Midnight Gardens, Magic Wells; M.Nikolajeva.- Tom's Midnight Garden; R.Natov.- MILDRED TAYLOR, ROLL OF THUNDER HEAR MY CRY (1976).- Introduction; J.Maybin.- A Search for Law and Justice in a Racist Society; H. Bosmajian.- The Role of Education in Mildred D. Taylor's Roll of Thunder; C.Denean Cobb.- Child Agency in Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry; K.McDowell.- PHILIP PULLMAN, NORTHERN LIGHTS (1995).- Introduction; H.Montgomery.- Dust as Metaphor in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials; M.A.Bird.- Obedience, Disobedience, and Storytelling in C. S. Lewis and Philip Pullman; N.Wood.- Intertextuality; C.Squires.- J. K. ROWLING, HARRY POTTER AND THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE (1997).- Introduction; N.Watson.- The Phenomenon of Harry Potter, or Why All the Talk?; J.Zipes.- The Unthinkingness of Harry Potter; S.Gupta.- Harry Potter and the Reinvention of the Past; A.Blake.- PART II: CONTEMPORARY TRENDS.- FICTION FOR ADOLESCENTS: MELVIN BURGESS, JUNK (1996).- Introduction; A.Hewings& N.Watson.- Sympathy for the Devil; M.Burgess.- 'And It's So Real': Versions of Reality in Melvin Burgess's Junk; J.Stephens.- RADICAL AGENDAS: BEVERLEY NAIDOO, THE OTHER SIDE OF TRUTH (2000).- A Writer's Journey: Retracing The Other Side of Truth; B.Naidoo.- What is The Other Side of Truth; J.Giles.- PAST WORLDS: JAMILA GAVIN, CORAM BOY (20.