Critics and Critical Approaches

Special Issue: Children's Literature Association Quarterly 15.3 (Fall 1990): Children's Humor: Subversion or Socialization? Ed. Nancy L. Huse and Janice M. Alberghene.

Appleyard, J. A. Becoming a Reader: The Experience of Fiction from Childhood to Adulthood. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. ISBN 0 521 38364 1. £27.50/ $34.50. On the 5 stages.

Apseloff, Marilyn. "The Big, Bad Wolf: New Approaches to an Old Folk Tale." Children's Literature Association Quarterly 15.3 (Fall 1990):135-37. On Jon Scieszka's The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs (1989) and Jane Yolen's "Happy Dens or a Day in the Old Wolves' Home" in The Faery Flag (1989). G.A.

Bush, Margaret. "It Was the Children Who Appealed to Me." Horn Book 67 (Nov.-Dec. 1991): 778-79- Relates her path to becoming a children's book reviewer. L.H.

Chlebek, Diana. "The Image of the River as Narrative and Thematic Device in British Children's Fiction." Proceedings of the 1989 Conference of the Children's Literature Association: 55-58. How the river has been used since the 19th cen. to illustrate the reality of life as a process in Ruskin, Kingsley, Grahme, Lucy Boston, and Walsh's A Chance Child (1985). G.A.

Clark, Margaret. "Early to Read." Signal 65 (May 1991): 112-119. A former editor at Penguin and Bodley Head discusses her childhood reading. G.A.

Coughlin, Ellen K. "A Cinderella Story: Research on Children's Books Takes on New Life as a Field of Literary Study." The Chronicle of Higher Education 13 Feb. 1991: A5-A7. An overview of the field since Francelia Butler started Children's Literature in 1972. G.A.

Crago, Maureen. "Meet the Bibliographer Linnea Hendrickson." Orana 27.1 (February 1991): 22-6. Hendrickson discusses the background to her bibliography Children's Literature: A Guide to the Criticism.

Davies, Bronwyn. "Lived and Imaginary Narratives and Their Place in Taking Oneself Up as a Gendered Being." Australian Psychologist 25.3 (November 1990): 318-32.

Doonan, Jane and David Lewis. "Reading New Books." Signal 65 (May 1991): 129-42. A dialogue between Doonan and Lewis on some new picture books. G.A.

Fader, Ellen. "Keeping the Child and Book in Mind." Horn Book 67 (Sept.-Oct. 1991): 640-42. How Fader came to be a children's book reviewer; her priorities. L.H.

Northrop Frye Died Jan. 23, 1991, at home in Toronto at the age of 78. His critical theories have been a major influence on children's literature studies.

Hearne, Betsy. "Coming to the States: Reviewing Books from Abroad." Horn Book 67 (Sept.-Oct. 1991): 562-68. Considers Issues that translated books raise for reviewers. L.H.

Hollindale, Peter. "The Critic and the Child." Signal 65 (May 1991): 87-100. Essay review of Peter Hunt's Children's Literature: The Development of Criticism (Routledge 1990), Travellers in Time: Past, Present and to Come (Green Bay Publications 1990), and Children's Literature 18(Yale UP 1990). Considers the current state of criticism and changes in the last 30 years. G.A.

Hunt, Peter. "Converging Currents: The Consequences of the Critical Revolution." Proceedings of the 1989 Conference of the Children's Literature Association: 3-14. Keynote Address. The revolution is the "truth . . . universally acknowledged and rarely followed to its logical conclusion": "that we all make our own meanings from a text." G.A.

James, P. D. What's so Special about Books? or How to answer the child who says that Dickens would have written for video if he'd had the chance. London: W.H.Smith, n.d Contemporary papers 3. Gratis. (Available from W. H. Smith Group plc, Public relations Dept., Strand House, 7 Holbein Place, London SWIW SNR).

Lenz, Millicent. Nuclear Age Literature for Youth The Quest for a Life-Affirming Ethic. Chicago: American Library Association, 1990. Pp. 315. ISBN 0-8389-0535-8. Paper, $32.50. Review, Sandra Stroner Sivulich, JOYS 4.3 (Spring 1991): 298. A survey of works concerned with "the shadow of nuclear fear," from the picture book to the popular adult novel. Scholarly, superbly researched and documented. Winner of the 1990 ChLA Book Award. G...