Chapter 1 Introduction. Children’s Literature: New Approaches

Chapter 3 Victorian Childhood. Reading Beyond the ‘Innocent Title’: Home Thoughts and Home Scenes

Chapter 4 Reading. The Swiss Family Robinson as Virtual Reality

Chapter 5 The Implied Reader. Response and Responsibility: Theories of the Implied Reader in Children’s Literature Criticism

Chapter 6 Children’s Literature, Science and Faith: The Water-Babies

Chapter 7 The Child, The Family, The Relationship. Familiar Stories: Family, Storytelling, and Ideology in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials

Chapter 8 Reading Intertextuality. The Natural and the Legitimate: Intertextuality in ‘Harry Potter’

Chapter 9 National Identity. Where the Wild, Strange and Exotic Things Are: In Search of the Caribbean in Contemporary Children’s Literature

Chapter 10 Landscapes: ‘Going foreign’ in Arthur Ransome’s Peter Duck