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  • Contents (Volume 32)

Volume 32, No. 1

Editors’ Introduction v

Sandra Beckett, George Bodmer, and Lissa Paul

Learning to Be Modern Girls: Winifred Darch’s School Stories 1

Heather Julien

Curious Appetites: Food, Desire, Gender, and Subjectivity in Lewis Carroll’s Alice Texts 22

Carina Garland

Trans/Forming Girlhood: Transgenderism, the Tomboy Formula, and Gender Identity Disorder in Sharon Dennis Wyeth’s Tomboy Trouble 40

Michelle Ann Abate

The Spiritual Geography of Domestic and Narrative Spaces in Aidan Chambers’ Dance Sequence 61

Mary Harris Russell

Trick or Treat?: Halloween Lore, Passive Consumerism, and the Candy Industry 82

Susan Honeyman

Book Reviews

Don Latham. David Almond: Memory and Magic. Scarecrow Studies in Young Adult Literature, no. 24. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow P, 2006 109

Johanna Denzin Bradley

Michael Cart. Passions and Pleasures: Essays and Speeches about Literature and Libraries. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow P, 2007 112

Marla J. Ehlers

Angelica Shirley Carpenter, ed. In the Garden: Essays in Honor of Frances Hodgson Burnett. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow P, 2006 115

Beth Godbee [End Page 385]

Trites, Roberta Seelinger. Twain, Alcott, and the Birth of the Adolescent Reform Novel. Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 2007 119

Andrew Kantar

Griswold, Jerry. Feeling Like a Kid: Childhood and Children’s Literature. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2006 124

Anne Lundin

Volume 32, No. 2

Editors’ Introductions: v

Sandra Beckett, George Bodmer, Lissa Paul, Betsie van der Westhuisen, Deirdre Baker

Particles of Narrative Cluster of Five Essays

The Elementary Particles of Narrative 127

Philip Pullman

Particles in Suspension 148

Megan Whalen Turner

A View Down the Microscope 155

Sarah Ellis

Harry Potter and the Novice’s Confession 169

Linda Hutcheon

Entropy Means Nothing to Me 180

Tim Wynne-Jones

Seeing Inside the Mountains: Cynthia Rylant’s Appalachian Literature and the “Hillbilly” Stereotype 192

Karen Roggenkamp

Book Reviews

Jan M. Ziolkowski, Fairy Tales from Before Fairy Tales: The Medieval Latin Past of Wonderful Lies 216

Gillian Adams [End Page 386]

Andrea Immel and Michael Witmore, Childhood and Children’s Books in Early Modern Europe, 1550–1800 219

Rebecca Davies

Valerie Coghlan and Siobhán Parkinson, eds., Irish Children’s Writers and Illustrators 1986–2006: A Selection of Essays 222

Mary Shine Thompson

Annette Wannamaker, Boys in Children’s Literature and Popular Culture: Masculinity, Abjection, and the Fictional Child 225

Kent Baxter

Mary Shine Thompson and Valerie Coghlan, eds., Divided Worlds: Studies in Children’s Literature 228

David Rudd

Laurence Talairach-Vielmas, Moulding the Female Body in Victorian Fairy Tales and Sensation Novels 234

Jack Zipes

Volume 32, No. 3

Editors’ Introduction v

Sandra Beckett, George Bodmer, Lissa Paul

Guest Editor’s Introduction: Cluster: Children’s Literature in South Africa vii

Betsie van der Westhuizen

Cross-Cultural Misreadings: MacCann and Maddy’s Apartheid and Racism Revisited 237

Elwyn Jenkins and Elizabeth Muther

Why Are South Africans Afraid of Tokoloshes? 260

Molly Brown

Little Books for Little Hands: A Stories Across Africa Project 271

Carole Bloch

Retelling 9/11: How Picture Books Re-Envision National Crises 288

Paula T. Connolly [End Page 387]

Uncovering the Child in Timothy Treadwell’s Feral Tale 304

Ellen Brinks

“Are we cannibals, let me ask? Or are we faithful friends?” 324

Tison Pugh

“from brain all the way to heart”: The 2008 Lion and the Unicorn Award for Excellence in North American Poetry 344

Richard Flynn, Angela Sorby, and Joseph T. Thomas, Jr.

Book Reviews

Christine Wilkie-Stibbs. The Outside Child: In and Out of the Book. New York: Routledge, 2008 357

Kirsten Bartels

K. V. Johansen. Beyond Window Dressing? Canadian Children’s Fantasy at the Millennium. Sackville, NB: Sybertooth, 2007 360

Roderick McGillis

Neal A. Lester. Once Upon a Time in a Different World: Issues and Ideas in African American Children’s Literature. New York: Routledge, 2007 364

Michelle H. Martin

Kate Chedgzoy, Susanne Greenhalgh, and Robert Shaughnessy, eds. Shakespeare and Childhood. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2007 370

Erica Hateley

Diana Pavlac Glyer. The Company They Keep: C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien as Writers in Community. Kent, OH: Kent State UP, 2007 375

John H Timmerman

Kate McLoughlin and Malin Lidström Brock, eds. Tove Jansson Rediscovered. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars P, 2007 377

David Russell [End Page 388]

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