- 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 [End Page 1]
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 [End Page 2]
"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 [End Page 3]
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 [End Page 4]