Chapter 1: Purposes and Histories
Introduction / Heather Montgomery
Instruction and Delight / Peter Hunt
Origins: Fairy Tales and Folk Tales / Jack Zipes
Childrens Literature: Birth, Infancy, Maturity / Matthew Grenby
The First Golden Age / Humphrey Carpenter
The Same but Different: Conservatism and Revolution in Childrens Fiction / Peter Hunt
Multicultural Agendas / Lissa Paul
Transformative Energies / Kimberley Reynolds
Chapter 2: Publishing, Prizes, and Popularity
Introduction / Janet Maybin
Boys and Girls Reading, 1884 / Edward Salmon
Empire Boys / Joseph Bristow
Twentieth-Century British Publishing / Nicholas Tucker
Prizes! Prizes! Newbery Gold / Kenneth Kidd
In Defence of the Indefensible? Some Grounds for Enid Blytons Appeal / David Rudd
Marketing a the Millennium / Claire Squires
Introduction / Nicola J. Watson
From the Garden to the Street: The History of Poetry for Children / Morag Styles
The Language of Poems for Children: A Stylistic Case Study / Lesley Jeffries
From the Best Poets? Anthologies for Children / Morag Styles
Chapter 4: Story-Telling, Stage, and Screen
Introduction / Nicola J. Watson
Stories in Performance / Joan Swann
Drama / Susanne Greenhalgh
Screen Classics / Deborah Cartmell
Chapter 5: Words and Pictures
Introduction / Sharon Goodman
Texts and Pictures: A History / Joyce Irene Whalley
Picturebook Codes / William Moebius
Postmodern Experiments / Bette Goldstone
Chapter 6: Contemporary Transformations
Introduction / Ann Hewings
In Praise of Adaptation / Linda Hutcheon
Harry Potter Goes to China / Suman Gupta (with assistance from Cheng Xiao)
Reading Transformations / Rosie Flewitt
Cross-Reading and Crossover Books / Rachel Falconer
