by M. O. Grenby
Paul, Lissa, ‘Enigma Variations: What Feminist Criticism Knows about Children’s Literature’, Signal, 54 (1987), 186–202
Reynolds, Kim, Girls Only? Gender and Popular Children’s Fiction in Britain, 1880–1910, Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1990
Richardson, Alan, ‘Reluctant Lords and Lame Princes: Engendering the Male Child in Nineteenth-Century Juvenile Fiction’, Children’s Literature in Education, 21 (1993), 3–19
Stephens, John, ‘Gender, Genre and Children’s Literature’, Signal, 79 (1996), 17–30
Vallone, Lynne, Disciplines of Virtue: Girls’ Culture in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1995
Chapter 10 (Children’s texts and the grown-up reader)
Beckett, Sandra (ed.), Transcending Boundaries: Writing For A Dual Audience of Children and Adults, New York: Garland, 1999
Gubar, Marah, Artful Dodgers: Reconceiving the Golden Age of Children’s Literature, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008
Knoepflmacher, U. C., ‘Kipling’s “Just-So” Partner: The Dead Child as Collaborator and Muse’, Children’s Literature, 25 (1997), 24–49
Kuznets, Lois R., ‘Permutations of Frame in Mary Norton’s Borrowers Series’, Studies in the Literary Imagination, 18 (1985), 65–78
Chapter 11 (Ideas of difference in children’s literature)
Keith, Lois, Take Up Thy Bed and Walk: Death, Disability and Cure in Classic Fiction for Girls, New York: Routledge, 2001
McGillis, Roderick (ed.), Voices of the Other: Children’s Literature and the Postcolonial Context, New York: Garland, 1999
Pace, Patricia, ‘The Body-in-Writing: Miniatures in Mary Norton’s The Borrowers’, Text and Performance Quarterly, 11 (1991), 279–90
Sands-O’Connor, Karen, ‘Why are People Different? Multiracial Families in Picture Books and the Dialogue of Difference’, The Lion and the Unicorn, 25 (2001), 337–426
Swartz, Patti Capel, ‘Bridging Multicultural Education: Bringing Sexual Orientation into the Children’s and Young Adult Literature Classrooms’, Radical Teaching: A Socialist, Feminist, and Anti-Racist Journal on the Theory and Practice of Teaching, 66 (2003), 11–16
Chapter 12 (Changing families in children’s fiction)
Coontz, Stephanie, The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap, New York: Basic Books, 1992
Davin, Anna, ‘Waif Stories in Late Nineteenth-Century England’, History Workshop Journal, 52 (2001), 67–98
Gamble, Nikki, and Nicholas Tucker, Family Fictions, London: Continuum, 2001
Hareven, Tamara K., Families, History, and Social Change: Life-Course and Cross-Cultural Perspectives, Boulder, CO: Perseus Books, 2000
Humble, Nicola, ‘Eccentric Families in the Fiction of Adolescence from the 1920s to the 1940s’, in K. Reynolds (ed.), Childhood Remembered, Lichfield: Pied Piper Publishing, 2003
Schor, Juliet B., Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture, New York: Scribner, 2004
Thiel, Elizabeth, The Fantasy of Family: Nineteenth-Century Children’s Literature and the Myth of the Domestic Ideal, London: Routledge, 2007
Chapter 13 (Traditions of the school story)
Auchmuty, Rosemary, and Joy Wotton (eds.), The Encyclopaedia of School Stories, 2 vols., Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000
Briggs, Julia, ‘“Delightful Task!” Women, Children, and Reading in the Mid-Eighteenth Century’, in Donelle Ruwe (ed.), Culturing the Child 1690–1914: Essays in Memory of Mitzi Myers, Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2005, pp. 67–85
Cadogan, Mary, and Patricia Craig, You’re a Brick, Angela!: The Girls’ School Story 1839–1985, London: Gollancz, 1986
Grenby, M. O., Children’s Literature, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2008
Pickering, Samuel F., Jr, ‘Allegory and the First School Stories’, in Joseph H. Smith and William Kerrigan (eds.), Opening Texts: Psychoanalysis and the Culture of the Child, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985, pp. 42–68.
Quigly, Isabel, The Heirs of Tom Brown: The English School Story, London: Chatto and Windus, 1982
Richards, Jeffrey, Happiest Days: The Public Schools in English Fiction, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1988
Chapter 14 (Fantasy’s alternative geography for children)
Attebury, Brian, Strategies of Fantasy, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992
Jones, Raymond E. (ed.), E. Nesbit’s Psammead Trilogy: A Children’s Classic at 100, Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2006
Lenz, Millicent, and Carole Scott (eds.), His Dark Materials Illuminated: Critical Essays on Philip Pullman’s Trilogy, Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 2005
Mendlesohn, Farah, Rhetorics of Fantasy, Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2008
Nikolajeva, Maria, ‘Fairy Tale and Fantasy: From Archaic to Postmodern’, Marvels & Tales, 17 (2003), 138–56
Sammons, Martha C., ‘A better country’: The Worlds of Religious Fantasy and Science Fiction, New York: Greenwood Press, 1988
Chapter 15 (Animal and object stories)
Baker, Steve, Picturing the Beast: Animals, Identity and Representation, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1993
Blackwell, Mark (ed.), The Secret Life of Things: Animals, Objects, and It-Narratives in Eighteenth-Century England, Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2007
Cosslet, Tess, Talking Animals in British Children’s Fiction, 1786–1914, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006
Fudge, Erica, Animal, London: Reaktion Books, 2002
Kuznets, Lois R., When Toys Come Alive: Narratives of Animation, Metamorphosis and Development, London: Yale University Press, 1994
Ritvo, Harriet, The Animal Estate: The English and Other Creatures in the Victorian Period, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1987
Chapter 16 (Humour and the body in children’s literature)
Lypp, Maria, ‘The Origin and Function of Laughter in Children’s Literature’, in Maria Nikolajeva (ed.), Aspects and Issues in the History of Children’s Literature, Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1995, pp. 183–9
McGillis, Roderick, ‘Coprophilia for Kids: The Culture of Grossness’, in Kerry Mallan and Sharyn Pearce (eds.), Youth Cultures: Texts, Images, and Identities, London: Praeger, 2003, 183–96
Mallan, Kerry, Laugh Lines: Exploring Humour in Children’s Literature, Newtown, NSW: Primary English Teaching Association, 1993
Wolfenstein, Martha, Children’s Humour: A Psychological Analysis, Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1978
Index
abridgments 93, 115
Adams, Richard: Watership Down 15
adult literature:
and children’s literature xiii–xiv, xv, 8–9, 37, 91, 108–9, 174–5
adults
as authors
authors
as critics and reviewers 108–10
See also book reviews, canon formation
See also canon formation
differences from children 174–6
as ‘owners’ of children’s literature 113
as poets for children 83
as purchasers of children’s books See book selection
as readers of children’s books xiii–xiv, 159–73
as readers to children 24–5
See also origin stories/myths
Aesop’s fables 30–1, 32, 131, 242
L’Estrange’s translation 7–8, 269–70
Aguirre, F. Goico: La ciudad (with Jiménez-Landi) 63
Ahlberg, Allan
The Jolly Postman (with Janet Ahlberg) 24, 33, 73
Please Mrs Butler 137
Red Nose Readers series (with McNaughton) 140
Ahlberg, Janet: The Jolly Postman (with Allan Ahlberg) 24, 33, 73
Aikin, John: Evenings at Home (with Barbauld) 174, 189
Aladdin stories, mutations of 92
Alcott, Louisa May
Little Women 114, 117, 147–8, 150, 157, 184, 196–7
and t
radition of family-based series 199
Alexander, Lloyd: Chronicles of Prydain 226
Alger, Horatio (Jr): Ragged Dick 194
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Carroll) 3, 16, 39–40, 44–7, 60
allegory
and myths, legends and folktales 92
and picture books 69–71
and school stories 209–10, 211, 212, 213–15, 219
seventeenth-century religious 229, 230
and Victorian fantasists 230, 231
Allsburg, Chris Van: Bad Day at Riverbend 73
alphabet
books/cards 12–14, 69, 128–9, 134, 248
development 129
hornbook 130
teaching methods 29, 30, 38, 130, 135, 138
The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents (Pratchett) 104–6
American children’s literature
classic status and 117
new books published annually 120
picture books 58–9, 64–5, 69–71, 74
American Library Association Awards 120–1
Andersen, Hans Christian:
‘Christine’s Picture Book’ 60–1
distortions and abridgments in translated works 52
The Emperor’s New Clothes 101
The Snow Queen 237
animal and animated object stories 242–57
animal autobiography genre 245
animal defined 242, 250
animal rights 245–7
and anthropomorphism 63, 71, 242, 243, 244, 245, 247, 251–7
association of animals with children 242–3, 256
and ‘connectedness’ 250–2
and defamiliarisation 252–6
fables and folktales 242, 243, 269–70
and otherness 242–4, 256
and symbolic order 247–8, 250
talking animals/objects 245, 248–50, 256–7
animated films
anime 103–4
Chicken Run 246
Howl’s Moving Castle 103–4
The Iron Giant 187
Toy Story 249
anime 103–4
Anschauungslehre books 59
Anstey, F.: Vice Versa, or A Lesson to Fathers 234
anthologies and canon formation 81–2, 111, 112, 113–14
anthropomorphism 63, 71, 242, 243, 244, 245, 247, 251–7
Applegate, K. A.: Animorphs series 112–13, 114, 119
Ariès, Philippe 7, 20–1, 193
Aristotle: on children and animals 242
Armstrong, William H.: Sounder 247
Arnold, Thomas 212, 213
Auchmuty, Rosemary 220
authors
and adult/child hybridity 159–73
as assemblers of books 39
and book production 35–7, 39–40
demeaned by origin stories 16
as writers for children 3, 6, 8–9
See also origin stories/myths
Avery, Gillian 81
awards for children’s literature
increasingly pluralistic 116, 120–1
mediated by adults 109
and profile of works 119
individual award names
baby books
as instruments of socialisation 24–5
selection of 23–7
Bagnold, Enid: National Velvet 246–7
Ballantyne, R. M. 153
Banner, Angela: Ant and Bee 69
Bannerman, Helen: The Story of Little Black Sambo 51, 115
Banyai, Istvan: Zoom and Re-zoom 72
Barbauld, Anna Laetitia
Evenings at Home (with Aikin) 174, 189
Hymns in Prose for Children 85
Lessons for Children 133–4
Barrie, J. M.: Peter Pan 3, 16, 154
Barthes, Roland: The Pleasure of the Text 131
Baum, L. Frank: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz 71
Beale, Dorothea 218
Beckett, Sandra 159
Belloc, Hilaire 66, 84
Bennett, John: Strictures on Female Education 10
Bennett, William: The Children’s Treasury of Virtues 114
Berkowitz, Jacob: Jurassic Poop 262
Berquin, Arnaud: L’Ami des enfans 8
Beucler, André: Mon chat (with Parain) 69
Beverly Hills 90210 (TV series) 221
Bewick, Thomas xix, 44
Bilibin, Ivan 57, 71, 74
bilingualism
and The Borrowers 167, 168, 169
and Orbis sensualium pictus 57
binding techniques 8, 9, 42, 49
Black Beauty (Sewell) 244–5
Blake, William 38, 60
Block, Francesca Lia 186
Weetzie Bat 184, 205–6
Blume, Judy 109
Forever 186
Blyton, Enid
gender and Famous Five 143–4, 156, 157
older children and parental role 204
portrait of 16
Bodkin, Odds: The Crane Wife (with Spirin) 74
body 258–70
authority of big bodies 261
body-swapping plots 234
and forbidden behaviours 259
and gentle humour 268–70
and the gruesome 262–7
Jo’s aversion to in Little Women 147
and size 187–8, 258, 259–62
as source of humour 258–9, 270
and words 258
See also disabilities, healthiness , physical desires
See also healthiness, physical desires
See also physical desires
book buying See book selection
book production 35–53
and animal products 248
and authors 35–7, 39–40
binding techniques 8, 9, 42, 49
book jackets 50
colour printing/photography 48–9
copy-preparation 39–40
endpapers 49–50
illustrations 43–9
paper (material) See paper (material)
paperbacks 50
printing surfaces 43
and technological advances 8
book reviews 6–7, 22, 109–10, 114, 117–18, 120
book selection 20–8
children’s sections 20–2
classics sections 114–16
and controversial topics 22–3, 27
parental considerations 22–3
and reader’s age 22, 23
book stores
‘award books’ sections 121–2
children’s sections 20–2
classics sections 114–16
See also book selection
Boreman, Thomas 11–12
and bindings for books 49
Description of Three Hundred Animals 4, 59
Gigantick Histories series 40
The Borrowers (Norton)
adult/child hybridity 161–73
and bilingualism 167, 168, 169
compared to Where the Wild Things Are 169–73
film/TV versions of 163
and representations of size 187, 260–1
Bourdieu, Pierre 19–20
Boutet de Monvel, Louis-Maurice 57, 71
The Boy’s Own Paper (periodical) 144–5
Boys of England (periodical) 145
Bradford, Clare: Unsettling Narratives: Postcolonial Readings of Children’s Literature 133
Branzei, Sylvia: Grossology: The Science of Really Gross Things 258–9
Brazil, Angela 220
Breckler, Rosemary: Sweet Dried Apples 200–1
Brenda (G. Castle Smith): Froggy’s Little Brother 197
Brent-Dyer, Elinor: Chalet School series 220
Brett, Catherine: S. P. Likes A. D. 222
Briggs, Raymond 74
The Man 187–8
British empire 144–5, 213–17
Brontë, Charlotte: Jane Eyre 148
Brooke, William J.: Teller of Tales 98
Brosterman, Norman 71
Brown, Mar
garet Wise
Goodnight, Moon 72
The Important Book 71
Noisy Books 69
Brown, Pamela: The Swish of the Curtain 152
Browne, Anthony: Gorilla 253–6
Browning, Robert: The Pied Piper of Hamelin 104–5
Bruce, Dorita Fairlie: Dimsie series 220
Brunhoff, Jean de 58, 64
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV series) 204
Bunyan, John
Country Rhimes for Children 4
Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners 259
indebtedness of MacDonald and Kingsley to 230–2
The Pilgrim’s Progress 209–10, 229–30
Burgess, Gelett: Goops and How to Be Them 84
Burgess, Melvin
Doing It 222
The Earth Giant 187
Junk 202–3
Lady: My Life as a Bitch 266, 267–8
Burnett, Frances Hodgson 150–1, 179
Little Lord Fauntleroy 15, 154–5
A Little Princess 217
Sara Crewe 217
The Secret Garden 184, 185
Burningham, John: Mr Gumpy’s Outing 101
Burton, Virginia Lee 63
cubist and futurist techniques 72
Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel 49–50
Busch, Wilhelm: Max und Moritz 73
Cadnum, Michael: In a Dark Wood 96–7
Caldecott, Randolph 57, 61–3, 67
Caldecott Medal xxiii, 74
Cambridge Guide to Children’s Books in English: lack of poetry genre entry 77
canon formation 108–22
and academics 110–13
and anthologies 81–2, 111, 112, 113–14
complexity of 108–9
future of 122
and historical critical assessment 109–10
and poetry anthologies 81–2
and popular audiences 113–19
and university syllabi 110–13
The Canterbury Tales (Chaucer) 5