Contents (Volume 26)

Volume 26, No. 1

Editors' Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v

Louisa Smith and Jack Zipes

In Memoriam Mitzi Myers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi

Elizabeth Goodenough, Andrea Immel, and U. C. Knoepflmacher

Childhood Under Siege: Lois Lowry's Number the Stars and The Giver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Don Latham

A Knock at the Door: Reading Judith Kerr's Picture Books in the Context of Her Holocaust Fiction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Louise Sylvester

The Virtue of "Stubborn Curiosity": Moral Literacy in Black and White . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Louise Collins

"'We've Decided to Wake a Mish for You'": Gift Exchange and Didacticism in Tove Jansson's Finn Family Moomintroll . . . . . . . . 50

Reuben Sanchez

Queering the Picture Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Melynda Huskey

From Elfland to Hogwarts, or the Aesthetic Trouble with Harry Potter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

John Pennington

William Forever: Richmal Crompton's Unusual Achievement . . . . . . 98

Betty Greenway

The Dark Horse: Ruby Ferguson and the Jill Pony Stories . . . . . . . . 112

Liz Thiel

Book Reviews

Valerie Krips. The Presence of the Past: Memory, Heritage, and Childhood in Postwar Britain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Ian Wojcik-Andrews

M. Daphne Kutzer. Empire's Children: Empire and Imperialism in Classic British Children's Books. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Naomi Wood

Garry Westfahl. Science Fiction, Children's Literature, and Popular Culture: Coming of Age in Fantasyland . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Donna R. White

Megan Lynn Isaac. Heirs to Shakespeare: Reinventing the Bard in Young Adult Literature. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Howard Marchitello

Sherrie A. Inness, ed. Nancy Drew© and Company: Culture, Gender, and Girls' Series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Alisa Clapp-Itnyre

Volume 26, No. 2

Editor's Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v

Jack Zipes

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Ermanno Detti

The Difficult Art of Making People Laugh: Comic Children's Literature in Italy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Ermanno Detti

Apologizing to the Ancient Fable: Gianni Rodari and His Influence on Italian Children's Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

Maria Luisa Salvadori

Italian Nursery Rhymes: A Rich, Varied and Well-Used Landscape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

Lella Gandini

The Rhythm of Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223

Carla Poesio

The Future of the Profession . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236

Jerry Griswold

"History from Below": Time-Slip Narratives and National Identity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243

Tess Cosslett

Monica Hughes, Lois Lowry, and Young Adult Dystopias . . . . . . . . 254

Carrie Hintz

Book Reviews

John Springhall, Youth, Popular Culture, and Moral Panics: Penny Gaffs to Gangsta-Rap, 1830-1996 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

Charles Hatfield

John Higham, Hanging Together: Unity and Diversity in American Culture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271

Michael Joseph

Frederick Crews, Postmodern Pooh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274

Jan Susina

Gregory Eiselein and Anne K. Phillips, eds. The Louisa May Alcott Encyclopedia

Christine Doyle, Louisa May Alcott & Charlotte Brontë: Transatlantic Translations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278

Winona Howe

Nancy Tystad Koupal, ed., Baum's Road to Oz: The Dakota Years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283

Susan Naramore Maher

Volume 26, No. 3

Editor's Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v

Judith Plotz

Child Crusaders: The Literature of Global Childhood . . . . . . . . . . . . 287

Lisa Hermine Makman

"A Dream of Complete Idleness": Depiction of Labor in Children's Fiction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305

Maria Nikolajeva

An Introduction to "Staging Childhood" (Patricia Pace, 1952-2000) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322

Richard Flynn

Staging Childhood: Lewis Hine's Photographs of Child Labor . . . . . 324

Patricia Pace

Little Workers of the Kindergarten . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353

Marilynn Strasser Olson

Nice Girls Don't (But Want to): Work Ethic Conflicts and Conundrums in Mrs. Molesworth's Books for Girls . . . . . . . . . . . 374

Mary Sebag-Montefiore

Book Reviews

Lois Keith, Take Up Thy Bed and Walk: Death, Disability, and Cure in Classic Fiction for Girls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395

Laureen Tedesco

Susan Ang, The Widening World of Children's Literature . . . . . . . . 399

George Bodmer

Susan Lehr, ed., Beauty, Brains, and Brawn: The Construction of Gender in Children's Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401

Sharon M. Scapple

Walter Hogan, The Agony and the Eggplant: Daniel Pinkwater's Heroic Struggles in the Name of YA Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404

Jan Susina