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Index
Coverpage
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
List of illustrations
Notes on contributors
Preface
Chronology
Part i Contexts and Genres
1 The origins of children’s literature
2 Children’s books and constructions of childhood
3 The making of children’s books
4 Picture-book worlds and ways of seeing
5 The fear of poetry
6 Retelling stories across time and cultures
7 Classics and canons
Part ii Audiences
8 Learning to be literate
9 Gender roles in children’s fiction
10 Children’s texts and the grown-up reader
11 Ideas of difference in children’s literature
Part iii Forms and Themes
12 Changing families in children’s fiction
13 Traditions of the school story
14 Fantasy’s alternative geography for children
15 Animal and object stories
16 Humour and the body in children’s literature
Further reading
Index
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