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Table of Contents

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

Don Latham
pp. 1-15
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/uni.2002.0006
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A Knock at the Door: Reading Judith Kerr's Picture Books in the Context of Her Holocaust Fiction

Louise Sylvester
pp. 16-30
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/uni.2002.0011
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The Virtue of "Stubborn Curiosity": Moral Literacy in Black and White

Louise Collins
pp. 31-49
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/uni.2002.0002
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"We've decided to wake a mish for you": Gift Exchange and Didacticism in Tove Jansson's Finn Family Moomintroll

Reuben Sanchez
pp. 50-65
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/uni.2002.0009
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Queering the Picture Book

Melynda Huskey
pp. 66-77
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/uni.2002.0005
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From Elfland to Hogwarts, or the Aesthetic Trouble with Harry Potter

John Pennington
pp. 78-97
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/uni.2002.0008
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William Forever: Richmal Crompton's Unusual Achievement

Betty Greenway
pp. 98-111
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/uni.2002.0004
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The Dark Horse: Ruby Ferguson and the Jill Pony Stories

Liz Thiel
pp. 112-122
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/uni.2002.0012
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The Presence of the Past: Memory, Heritage, and Childhood in Postwar Britain (review)

Ian Wojcik-Andrews
pp. 123-126
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/uni.2002.0014
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Empire's Children: Empire and Imperialism in Classic British Children's Books (review)

Naomi Wood
pp. 126-130
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/uni.2002.0015
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Science Fiction, Children's Literature, and Popular Culture: Coming of Age in Fantasyland (review)

Donna R. White
pp. 131-133
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/uni.2002.0013
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Heirs to Shakespeare: Reinventing the Bard in Young Adult Literature (review)

Howard Marchitello
pp. 133-137
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/uni.2002.0007
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Editor's Note

Louisa Ann Smith, Jack David Zipes
p. v
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/uni.2002.0010
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In Memoriam Mitzi Myers (1939-2001)

Elizabeth Goodenough, Andrea Immel, U. C. Knoepflmacher
pp. vi-viii
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/uni.2002.0003
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Nancy Drew and Company: Culture, Gender, and Girls' Series (review)

Alisa Clapp-Itnyre
pp. 137-142
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/uni.2002.0001
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