Introduction: Toward a new history of children's literature
Speak, child: children's literature in classical antiquity
Ingenuity and authority: Aesop's fables and their afterlives
Court, commerce, and cloister: the literatures of medieval childhood
From alphabet to elegy: the Puritan impact on children's literature
Playthings of the mind: John Locke and children's literature
Canoes and cannibals: Robinson Crusoe and its legacies
From islands to empires: storytelling for a boy's world
On beyond Darwin: from Kingsley to Seuss
Ill-tempered and queer: sense and nonsense, from Victorian to modern
Straw into gold: fairy-tale philology
Theaters of girlhood: domesticity, desire, and performance in female fiction
Pan in the garden: the Edwardian turn in children's literature
Good feeling: prizes, libraries, and the institutions of American children's literature
Keeping things straight: style and the child
Tap your pencil on the paper: children's literature in an ironic age
Children's literature and the history of the book.
Toward a new history of children's literature
Speak, child: children's literature in classical antiquity
Ingenuity and authority: Aesop's fables and their afterlives
Court, commerce, and cloister: the literatures of medieval childhood
From alphabet to elegy: the Puritan impact on children's literature
Playthings of the mind: John Locke and children's literature
Canoes and cannibals: Robinson Crusoe and its legacies
From islands to empires: storytelling for a boy's world
On beyond Darwin: from Kingsley to Seuss
Ill-tempered and queer: sense and nonsense, from Victorian to modern
Straw into gold: fairy-tale philology
Theaters of girlhood: domesticity, desire, and performance in female fiction
Pan in the garden: the Edwardian turn in children's literature
Good feeling: prizes, libraries, and the institutions of American children's literature
Keeping things straight: style and the child
Tap your pencil on the paper: children's literature in an ironic age
Children's literature and the history of the book.
