Telling Children's Stories

Mike Cadden - Introduction 1. Narrative and Genre 1. Telling Old Tales Newly: Intertextuality in Young Adult Fiction for Girls / Elisabeth Rose Gruner; 2. Familiarity Breeds a Following: Transcending the Formulaic in the Snicket Series / Danielle Russell; 3. The Power of Secrets: Backwards Construction in Detective Fiction for Children / Chris McGee II. Narrative and The Picture Book 4. Focalization in Children's Picture Books: Who sees in words and pictures / Angela Yannicopoulou; 5. No Consonance, No Consolation: John Burningham's Time to Get Out of the Bath, Shirley / Magdalena Sikorska; 6. Telling the Story/Breaking the Boundaries: Metafiction and the Enhancement of Children's Literary Development in The Bravest Ever Bear and The Story of the Falling Star / Alexandra Lewis; 7. Perceiving The Red Tree: Writerly Metaphor & Sensible Anarchy / Andrea Schwenke Wylie; 8. Now Playing: Silent Cinema and Picture Book Montage / Nathalie op de Beeck III. Narrators and Implied Readers 9. Melodrama with a Modern Point of View: Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird / Holly Blackford; 10. The Identification Fallacy: Perspective and Subjectivity in Children's Literature / Maria Nikolajeva; 11. The Development of Hebrew Children's Literature: From Men Pulling Children Along to Women Meeting Them Where They Are / Dana Keren-Yaar IV. Narrative Time 12. Shifting Worlds: Constructing the Subject, Narrative, and History in Historical Time Shifts / Susan Stewart; 13. "Whose Woods These Are I Think I Know": Narrative Theory and Diana Wynne Jones' Hexwood / Martha Hixon; 14. "Time No Longer": The Context(s) of Time in Tom's Midnight Garden / Angelika Zirker Contributors; Bibliography; Further Reading; Index

Mike Cadden is a professor of English, the director of childhood studies, and the chair of the Department of English, Foreign Languages, and Journalism at Missouri Western State University. He is the author of "Ursula K. Le Guin Beyond Genre: Fiction for Children and Adults." Contributors include Nathalie op de Beeck, Holly Blackford, Mike Cadden, Elisabeth Rose Gruner, Martha Hixon, Dana Keren-Yaar, Alexandra Lewis, Chris McGee, Maria Nikolajeva, Danielle Russell, Magdalena Sikorska, Susan Stewart, Andrea Schwenke Wyile, Angela Yannicopoulou, and Angelika Zirker.

"["Telling Children's Stories"] is a welcome and accomplished contribution to children's literature studies, and I am confident that I will return often to many of these fine essays."--Richard Flynn, "Children's Literature Association Quarterly "--Richard Flynn "Children's Literature Association Quarterly "