- 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]