Introduction-Julia Mickenberg and Lynne Vallone
I. Adults and Children
1. The Fundamentals of Children's Literature Criticism: Alice's
Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking Glass
(1871). Peter Hunt
2. Randall Jarrell's The Bat Poet (1964): Poets, Children, and
Readers in an Age of Prose. Richard Flynn
3. Arnold Lobel's Frog and Toad Together (1979) as a Primer for
Critical Literacy. Teya Rosenberg
4. Blending Genres and Crossing Audiences: Harry Potter (1997-2007)
and the Future of Literary Fiction. Karin Westman
II. Pictures and Poetics
5. Wanda's Wonderland: Wanda Gág and Her Millions of Cats (1928).
Nathalie op de Beeck
6. A Cross-Written Harlem Renaissance: Langston Hughes' The
Dreamkeeper (1932). Katharine Capshaw Smith
7. Dumbo (1941), Disney, and Difference: Walt Disney Productions
and Film as Children's Literature. Nicholas Sammond
8. Redrawing the Comic Strip Child: Charles M. Schulz's Peanuts
(1950-52, 1959-60) as Cross-Writing. Charles Hatfield
9. The Cat in the Hippie: Dr. Seuss, Nonsense, the Carnivalesque,
and the Sixties Rebel (The Cat in the Hat [1957]). Kevin
Shortsleeve
10. Wild Things and Wolf Dreams: Maurice Sendak, Picturebook
Psychologist (Where the Wild Things Are [1963]). Kenneth Kidd
11. Re-imagining the Monkey King in Comics: Gene Luen Yang's
American Born Chinese (2006). Lan Dong
III. Reading History/Learning Race and Class
12. Froggy's Little Brother (1875): Nineteenth-Century Evangelical
Writing for Children and the Politics of Poverty. Kimberley
Reynolds
13. History in Fiction: Contextualization as Interpretation in
Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped (1886). M.O. Grenby
14. Tom Sawyer (1876), Audience and American Indians. Beverly Lyon
Clark
15. Living with the Kings: Class, Taste, and Family Formation in
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (1881). Kelly Hager
16. A Daughter of the House: Discourses of Adoption in L. M.
Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables, (1908). Mavis Reimer
17. Where in America Are You, God? Judy Blume, Margaret Simon and
American National Identity (Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret
[1970]). June Cummins
18. Let Freedom Ring: Land, Liberty, Literacy and Lore in Mildred
Taylor's Logan Family Novels (1975-2001). Michelle Martin
19. 'What are Young People to Think'?: The Subject of Immigration
and the Immigrant Subject in Francisco Jiménez's The Circuit
(1997). Philip Serrato
IV. Innocence and Agency
20. 'My Book and Heart Shall Never Part': Reading, Printing, and
Circulation in the New England Primer (1688-90). Courtney
Weikle-Mills
21. Castaways: Swiss Family Robinson (1812, 1814), Child
Book-Makers, and the Possibilities of Literary Flotsam. Karen
Sánchez-Eppler
22. Tom Brown and the Schoolboy Crush: Boyhood Desire,
Hero-worship, and the Boys' School Story (Tom Brown's Schooldays
[1857]). Eric Tribunella
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23. Peter Pan (1904) as Children's Theater: The Issue of Audience.
Marah Gubar. Peter Pan (1904) as Children's Theater: The Issue of
Audience.
24. Jade (1969) and the Tomboy Tradition. Claudia Nelson
25. Happily Ever After: Free to Be EL You and Me (1972),
Second-Wave Feminism, and 1970s American Children's Culture. Leslie
Paris
26. Paradise Refigured: Innocence and Experience in His Dark
Materials (1995-2000). Naomi Wood
Julia Mickenberg is Associate Professor of American Studies at the
University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of the
award-winning Learning from the Left: Children's Literature, the
Cold War, and Radical Politics in the United States and coeditor of
Tales for Little Rebels: A Collection of Radical Children's
Literature.
Lynne Vallone is Professor and Chair of Childhood Studies at
Rutgers University, the first Ph.D.-granting department of
Childhood Studies in the United States. She is the author of
Becoming Victoria and Disciplines of Virtue: Girls' Culture in the
Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries as well as co-associate general
editor of the Norton Anthology of Children's Literature.
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