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Introduction: Reflections of Change
Theory and Children's LiteratureFear of Children's Literature: What's Left (or Right) After Theory? by Perry Nodelman
"Is This the Promised End.?": Fin de Siècle Mentality and Children's Literature by John Stephens
Ramona the Underestimated: The Everyday-Life Story in Children's Literature by Deborah Stevenson
Shifting Boundaries Between Children's and Adult LiteratureThe Disappearance of Children's Literature (or Children's Literature as Nostalgia) in the United States in the Late Twentieth Century by Jerry Griswold
Literature for All Ages? Literary Emancipation and the Borders of Children's Literature by Anne de Vries
The Changing Status of Children and Children's Literature by Eva-Maria Metcalf
Experimental Writing and Postmodern TrendsFrom Grand Narrative to Small Stories: New Narrative Structures in Recent Scandinavian Children's Literature by Åsfrid Svensen
The Status of Sequels in Children's Literature: The Long Secret and Beyond the Chocolate War by Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer
Gillian Cross' Wolf: An Exploration of Patterns and Polarities by Susan Clancy
Paradigm ShiftsReflections of Change in Children's Book Titles by Maria Nikolajeva
High and Wild Magic, the Moral Universe, and the Electronic Superhighway: Reflections of Change in Susan Cooper's Fantasy Literature by Carole Scott
"Terror is Her Constant Companion": The Cult of Fear in Recent Books for Teenagers by Roderick McGillis
Suburban Scenarios in Simon French's All We Know: The Emergence of the Suburbs as the Spatial Framework for Australian Children's Fiction by Beverley Pennell
Reading Children's Literature Multiculturally by Daniel D. Hade
National LiteraturesThe Journey Inward: Adolescent Literature in America, 1945-1995 by Anne Scott MacLeod
The Novel for Adolescents in Québec: Stereotypes and New Conventions by Danielle Thaler
Realistic Stories for Children in the Federal Republic of Germany 1970-1994: Features and Tendencies by Dagmar Grenz
Text and Context: Factors in the Development of Children's Literature in Taiwan 1945-1995, and the Emergence of Young Adult Literature by Shu-Jy Duan
Reconceptualizing the PastAn Awfully Big Adventure? Representations of the Second World War in British Children's Books of the 1960s and 1970s by Dieter Petzold
Topsy-Turvy World: New Trends in Modern Russian Children's Literature by Olga MÄeots
Children's Literature in Totalitarian and Post-totalitarian Society by Vincas Auryla
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SANDRA L. BECKETT is Professor of French at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario. She has served as the Vice-President of the International Research Society for Children's Literature (IRSCL). Her research focuses on contemporary French fiction for adults as well as children. She is the author of three books on Henri Bosco, and has recently completed a book entitled
Les grands romanciers écrivent pour les enfants, 1945-1995. She has also published numerous articles on the contemporary French novel, as well as French and French-Canadian children's literature.
