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Index
Cover
Halftitle
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Citation
A Note on the Text
Prologue: Just So
I · ONCE UPON A TIME: THE PREHISTORY OF CHILDREN’S WRITING
Excavating the Past
Fables and Morals
The Shapes of Stories
Pre-Modern Childhood
The Child Is Father of the Man
II · “COME, BOY, LEARN TO BE WISE”: MORALISTS AND FABULISTS
Lessons from the Puritans
Respectable Ladies
Rectitude and Romanticism
Glass Slippers
III · DOWN THE RABBIT-HOLE: THE DAWNING OF THE GOLDEN AGE
Curiouser and Curiouser
Incuriouser and Incuriouser
IV · MAN-CUBS AND NAUGHTY BUNNIES: LATE VICTORIANS
The Law of the Jungle
Adventures on the High Seas
The Seeds of Fantasy
Animal Magic
V · NEVER SUCH INNOCENCE AGAIN: THE EDWARDIANS
From Paragons to Pains
“Oh! my Daddy, my Daddy!”
“His Greatest Pretend”
“Poop! Poop!”
VI · AN ENCHANTED PLACE: BETWEEN THE WARS
Give Me Sunshine
Opening a Franchise
Ladies First
In the Ruin of the Year
VII · LASHINGS AND LASHINGS: POST-WAR WRITERS
An Englishman’s Home
Always Winter and Never Christmas
Our Friends in the North
VIII · A CRACK IN THE TEACUP: SIXTIES AND SEVENTIES FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION
Genius Loci
Pushing the Boundaries
Wars of the Worlds
IX · HARSH REALITIES: THE DARKER SIDE OF CHILDREN (AND RABBITS)
Bad Teens
Ralph Comes Out to Play
Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit
Little Horrors
X · REPRESENTING: HOW CHILDREN’S STORIES GOT DIVERSE
Cross-Currents
This Is Not a Fairytale
XI · BACK TO THE FUTURE: OLD POTIONS IN NEW BOTTLES
A Sorting-Hat World
Darkness visible
XII · A THOUSAND WORDS: PICTURE BOOKS
Epilogue: This Lovely World, These Precious Days
Further Reading
Acknowledgements
Index
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