344 pages
7 illustrations
Introduction
Mike Cadden
Part 1. Genre Templates and Transformations
1. Telling Old Tales Newly: Intertextuality in Young Adult Fiction for Girls
Elisabeth Rose Gruner
2. Familiarity Breeds a Following: Transcending the Formulaic in the Snicket Series
Danielle Russell
3. The Power of Secrets: Backwards Construction and the Children's Detective Story
Chris McGee
Part 2. Approaches to the Picture Book
4. Focalization in Children's Picture Books: Who Sees in Words and Pictures?
Angela Yannicopoulou
5. No Consonance, No Consolation: John Burningham's Time to Get Out of the Bath, Shirley
Magdalena Sikorska
6. Telling the Story, Breaking the Boundaries: Metafiction and the Enhancement of Children's Literary Development in The Bravest Ever Bear and The Story of the Falling Star
Alexandra Lewis
7. Perceiving The Red Tree: Narrative Repair, Writerly Metaphor, and Sensible Anarchy
Andrea Schwenke Wyile
8. Now Playing: Silent Cinema and Picture-Book Montage
Nathalie op de Beeck
Part 3. Narrators and Implied Readers
9. Uncle Tom Melodrama with a Modern Point of View: Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird
Holly Blackford
10. The Identification Fallacy: Perspective and Subjectivity in Children's Literature
Maria Nikolajeva
11. The Development of Hebrew Children's Literature: From Men Pulling Children Along to Women Meeting Them Where They Are
Dana Keren-Yaar
Part 4. Narrative Time
12. Shifting Worlds: Constructing the Subject, Narrative, and History in Historical Time Shifts
Susan Stewart
13. "Whose Woods These Are I Think I Know": Narrative Theory and Diana Wynne Jones's Hexwood
Martha Hixon
14. "Time No Longer": The Context(s) of Time in Tom's Midnight Garden
Angelika Zirker
Further Reading
Contributors
Index