Teaching Children’s Fiction

JUDITH ELKIN Vice Principal of University College Worcester, UK and a member of the Herefordshire Learning Partnership Strategic Board, the British Council Knowledge and Information Advisory Committee, and Chair of MLA West Midlands, the Council for Museums, Libraries and Archives RICHARD FLYNN Professor of Literature at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, Georgia, USA and Editor of the Children's Literature Association Quarterly RODERICK MCGILLIS Professor of English at the University of Calgary, Canada MARIA NIKOLAJEVA Professor of Comparative Literature at Stockholm University, Sweden, and Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Åbo Akademi University, Finland PAT PINSENT Senior Research Fellow at University of Surrey, Roehampton, UK KIMBERLEY REYNOLDS Professor of Children's Literature, University of Newcastle, UK DAVID RUDD Senior Lecturer in the Department of Cultural and Creative Studies at the Bolton Institute, UK JEAN WEBB Director of the International Centrefor Research in Primary English and Children's Literature at University College Worcester, UK

• List of Figures Acknowledgements Series Preface (Series Editor) Notes on the Contributors Introduction; C.Butler Historical Studies; P.Pinsent Cultural Studies; D.Rudd Genre and Convention; J.Webb Looking in the Mirror: Pedagogy, Theory, and Children's Literature; R.McGillis Word and Picture; M.Nikolajeva Children as Readers; J.Elkin Children's Literature at Postgraduate Level in the United Kingdom; P.Pinsent & K.Reynolds Children's Literature at Postgraduate Level in the United States; R.Flynn Appendices Sample Undergraduate Syllabi; C.Butler Resources; K.Reynolds , P.Pinsent & C.Butler Children's Literature Criticism: Key Texts; C.Butler Teaching Children's Literature in Higher Education: A Select Bibliography; C.Butler Index

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