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Table of Contents

My (Black) Britain: The West Indies and Britain in Twenty-First Century Nonfiction Picture Books

Karen Sands O’Connor
pp. 1-11
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2012.0088
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“Stories from the Outside”: Representations of the Underclass in Nineteenth and Twenty-first Century Britain

Michele Gill
pp. 12-24
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2012.0091
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Michelle Paver: Ancient Magic for a Modern, Greener World

Anthony Pavlik
pp. 25-33
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2012.0094
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Rewriting Colonial Histories in Historical Fictions for the Young: From Below and Above

Blanka Grzegorczyk
pp. 34-46
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2012.0097
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Braving the Dark in Writing for Young People

Beverley Naidoo
pp. 47-55
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2012.0100
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Seven Years of Seven Stories: The Center for Children’s Books Comes of Age

Sarah Lawrance
pp. 56-59
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2012.0082
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Consulting the Experts: Martha and Alex Talk about Books and Reading

Fiona Maine
pp. 60-65
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2012.0086
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The Children’s Laureate

Julia Donaldson
pp. 66-71
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2012.0090
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What a Performance: The Lively Work of Julia Donaldson

Mandy Wheatley
pp. 72-74
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2012.0093
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“So good, it’s exhilarating”: The Jacqueline Wilson Phenomenon

Kay Waddilove
pp. 75-78
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2012.0096
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Mini Grey is Here!

Sarah Stokes
pp. 79-81
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2012.0099
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Re-Visioning Historical Fiction for Young Readers: The Past Through Modern Eyes (review)

Clive Barnes
pp. 82-83
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2012.0081
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Sherlock Holmes: une vie [Sherlock Holmes: a life] (review)

Nadia Boucheta, Hasmig Chahinian
pp. 83-84
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2012.0085
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Creating the National Mosaic: Multiculturalism in Canadian Children’s Literature from 1950 to 1994 (review)

Samantha Christensen
pp. 84-86
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2012.0089
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The Role of Translators in Children’s Literature: Invisible Storytellers (review)

Melissa Garavini
pp. 86-87
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2012.0092
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Contemporary English-Language Indian Children’s Literature: Representations of Nation, Culture, and the New Indian Girl (review)

Fawzia Gilani-Williams
pp. 87-89
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2012.0095
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Children’s Fiction 1765–1808. By John Carey; Margaret King Moore, Lady Mount Cashell; and Henry Brooke (review)

Ann Howey
pp. 89-91
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2012.0098
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Alisa v Strane Chudes, v strane chudes Alisy. Iz istorii knigi (review)

Katja Wiebe
pp. 91-92
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2012.0101
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Focus IBBY

Elizabeth Page
pp. 93-98
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2012.0083
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Bookbird Editors

Lydia Kokkola, Roxanne Harde
pp. iii-iv
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2012.0102
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British Children’s Literature in the Twenty-First Century: Bookbird Guest Editors

Liz Thiel, Alison Waller
pp. iv-vi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2012.0084
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Postcards

Nick Campbell, Richard Steward, Kay Waddilove, Karen Williams
pp. vi-99
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bkb.2012.0087
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