Considering Children's Literature : A Reader

Acknowledgements xi Preface xiii Chapter I: Introducing the Study of Children's Literature 1 Introduction 2 Natalie Babbitt, "Happy Endings? Of Course, and Also Joy" (1970) 4 Aidan Chambers, "Axes for Frozen Seas" (1985) 8 Hazel Rochman, "Introduction: Beyond Political Correctness" (1993) 25 Naser Yusefi, "Good Books, Bad Books and Who Decides Why" (1995) 39 Chapter II: Historical Children's Literature 41 Introduction 42 Gillian Adams, "Medieval Children's Literature: Its Possibility and Actuality" (1998) 43 Peter Hunt, "Passing on the Past: The Problem of Books That Are for Children and That Were for Children" (1996) 65 Susan R. Gannon, "Report from Limbo: Reading Historical Children's Literature Today" (1998) 71 Chapter III: The Picturebook 81 Introduction 82 Marcia Brown, "Distinction in Picture Books" (1958) 84 Deborah Stevenson, "Narrative in Picture Books or, The Paper That Should Have Had Slides" (1998) 92 Aidan Chambers, "Why 'Tell Me'?" (1993) 104 Aidan Chambers, From "Scenes from 'Tell Me' in Action" (1993) 105 Scott McCloud, From "The Vocabulary of Comics" and "Blood in the Gutters" in Understanding Comics (1993) 109 Emer O'Sullivan, "Translating Pictures" (1999) 117 Chapter IV: Poetry and Nursery Rhymes 127 Introduction 128 Perry Nodelman, "The Nursery Rhymes of Mother Goose: A World without Glasses" (1987) 129 Morag Styles, "'From the Best Poets'?: How the Canon of Poetry for Children Is Constructed" (1998) 147 Chapter V: Fairy Tales and Fantasy 159 Introduction 159 Hugh Crago, "What Is a Fairy Tale?" (2003) 162 Anna E. Altmann, "Parody and Poesis in Feminist Fairy Tales" (1994) 178 C.W. Sullivan III, "Fantasy" (1992) 189 Chapter VI: Young Adult Literature 201 Introduction 203 Anne Scott Macleod, "The Journey Inward: Adolescent Literature in America, 1945-1995" (1997) 205 Virginia Monseau, From "Responding to Response" in Responding to Young Adult Literature (1996) 210 Geralde Schmidt-Dumont, "Poetic Encryption and 'Sex Scrubbed Clean': A Report from Germany" (1994) 217 Caroline Hunt, "Young Adult Literature Evades the Theorists" (1996) 223 Chapter VII: Drama and Theatre 240 Introduction 241 Sanjay Kumar, "Theatre for Children in India: An Instrument for Social Change?" (1998) 242 Jack Zipes, "Political Children's Theatre in the Age of Globainatioli" (2003) 244 Wolfgang Schneider, "'Rosy Cheeks' and 'Shining Eyes' as Criteria in Children's Theatre Criticism" (1995) 263 Chapter VIII: Film Adaptations 269 Introduction 270 Keith Mehlinger, "A Case Study of The Planet of junior Brown" (2000)" 271 A. Waller Hastings, "Moral Simplification in Disney's The Little Mermaid" (1993) 279 Shaul Bassi, "Traffic in the Jungle: Teachers, Lawyers, Doctors, and Animals in Three Kipling Films" (2001) 288 Chapter IX: Theoretical Explorations and Practical Issues 297 Introduction 298 Wendy Lamb, "Strange Business: The Publishing Point of View" (1998) 299 Margaret Mahy (Lyttelton), "The Writer in New Zealand: Building Bridges through Children's Books" (1996) 305 Perry Nodelman, "Fear of Children's Literature: What's Left (or Right) After Theory?" (1997) 312 Margaret Mackey, "Playing in the Phase Space: Contemporary Forms of Fictional Pleasure" (1999) 324 Further Readings 343 Sources 347 Index 351