Books Received

Approaches to Teaching the Works of Jack London. Edited by Kenneth K. Brandt and Jeanne Campbell Rees-man. New York: Modern Language Association, 2015.

Although Jack London is not known primarily as a children's author, he regularly published short stories in children's magazines, and a few of his works are often classified as children's books, including The Call of the Wild (1903) and White Fang (1906). Several of the contributors to this volume provide insights into teaching these two novels as well as some of London's other works that appeal to child readers.

Left to Themselves: Being the Ordeal of Philip and Gerald. By Edward Prime-Stevenson. Edited by Eric L. Tribunella. Richmond, VA: Valancourt, 2016.

In this critical edition, Eric L. Tribunella provides a scholarly introduction, explanatory notes, and five appendices. As Tribunella explains in his introduction, the original publication of Left to Themselves in 1891 marked the beginning of gay literature for young adults.

Roald Dahl's Marvellous Medicine. By Tom Solomon. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2016.

Tom Solomon is a physician and a professor of neurological science. He and Roald Dahl met in 1990 when Dahl was one of his patients at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford. The two became friends and often discussed their shared interest in medical science. In this memoir, Solomon recounts his relationship with Dahl and discusses the latter's fascination with the medical world.

South African Young Adult Literature in English, 2000-2014. By Sandra Stadler. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2017.

Sandra Stadler places South African young adult literature within the country's contemporary cultural, social, and political context. She explores how issues related to race, gender, and class are reflected in South African novels for adolescent readers.