Soon Come Home to This Island

Karen Sands-O'Connor is Associate Professor of English at Buffalo State College in Buffalo, New York where she teaches children's and twentieth century British literature. She is co-author, with Marietta Frank, of Back in theSpaceship Again: Juvenile Science Fictions Series since1945 (1999).

• Series Editor’s ForewordPreface: Soon Come Home1. This Island for England: Early Depictions of the West Indies2. The Black Man’s Lament: Enlisting Child Readers in the Fight over Slavery3. A Small Corner of the Empire: The West Indies in Literature of the Victorian Era4. School on an Island: Geographies, School Stories, and Comics in the First Half of the Twentieth Century5. The Winds of Change: The West Indian Comes to Britain6. Happy Families?: British Picture Books After 19707. This Island for Me: Black British WritersConclusion: The Avenging CaribbeanWorks CitedIndex

"Thanks to Karen Sands-O'Connor's seminal study, readers can now learn more about the representations of West Indians and their culture in British children's literature." -- Bookbird, vol. 47, No. 1, 2009"...the author has produced such an authoritative volume, and one filling a huge hole in our literary knowledge...such extensive and groundbreaking research." -- Children's Literature Association Quarterly"A welcome addition to the recent body of work on race in children's literature alongside authors like Donnarae McCann, Michelle Martin and Roderick McGillis." --Phyllis Ramage, Wasafiri, No. 60, Winter 2009