This volume discusses Children's Literature through the ages from fairy tales and early didactic literature through to the classics of the nineteenth and twentieth-centuries and the modern day.
Part One: Introduction
Part Two: A Cultural Overview
Part Three: Texts, Writers and Contexts
Alternative Worlds: Carroll, Lewis and Wynne Jones
Real Lives: Alcott, Ashley and Wilson
Adventure Stories: Wyss, Ransome and Muchamore
Rhymes and Rhythms: Stevenson, Seuss and Zephaniah
Picture Books: Sendak, Browne and Child
Young Adult Fiction: Blume, Chambers and Larbalestier
Part Four: Critical Theories and Debates
Criticising Children's Literature
Gender and Sexuality
Children's Literature and Ideology
The Future of Children's Literature
Part Five: References and Resources
Timeline
Further Reading
Index
