Table Of Content

Children’s Literature in Education Volume 28, Number 1 March 1997 Editorial Note Tom Sawyer Andrew Davies Pilot-Officer Prune’s Progress U.A. Fanthorpe Wilde Pomegranates Russell Hoban The Mystery of the Man in Black Michéle Roberts The Multi-Dimensional Dutchman: An Interview with Ron van der Meer— Children’s Book Illustrator, Designer, Producer, Publisher and erstwhile teacher John Michael Dawson Children’s Literature in Education Volume 28, Number 2 June 1997 Teaching English and History Through Historical Fiction Alun Hicks and Dave Martin Historical fiction used in the classroom to promote committed reading and exciting writing An Unintentional System of Gaps: A Phenomenological Reading of Scott O’Dell’s Island of the Blue Dolpbins C. Anita Tarr Does the power of Scott O’Dell’s prizewinning work rest on an unexamined network of stereotypes? Digging Up The Secret Garden: Nobel Innocents or Little Savages? Christine Wilkie A radical re-reading of a classic text Reexamining the Issue of Authenticity in Picture Books Weimin Mo and Wenju Shen A discussion of the criteria of authenticity and an examination of some picture books portraying Asian societies Censorship and Children’s Literature in Britain Now, or, The Return of Abigail Peter Hunt Censorship of children’s books—visible and invisible—in Britain in the Nineties Essay Review: Poetry for Children—Prepositions and Possessives Michael Benton A consideration of the latest edition of a classic poetry collection Children’s Literature in Education Volume 28, Number 3 September 1997 Forever Acting Alone: The Absence of Female Collaboration in Grimms’ Fairy Tales Michael Mendelson An exploration of the roles allocated to women in the famous collection Read-Aloud Parent Clubs: Equipping Parents to Support Emergent Literacy Joan Brest Friedberg and Elizabeth Segel A practical account of a project which brings books, children, and parents together in Pittsburgh The Children in the Story: Metafiction in Mary Poppins in the Park Nicole E. Didicher Reflections on story and storytelling Teenage Tales Michael Wilson The unexplored territory of the stories teenagers have to tell Desert Voices: Southwestern Children’s Literature Keith Polette Three ways of writing about the desert Acknowledgments to Reviewers Children’s Literature in Education Volume 28, Number 4 December 1997 Learning Through Literature: Historical Fiction, Autobiography, and the Holocaust Geoffrey Short Literature recommended for the classroom to illuminate the Holocaust may in fact be marred by historical inaccuracy and oversight Frances Hodgson Burnett’s Sara Crewe Through 110 Years Janice Kirkland A heroine for the ages is adapted for each age she encounters “Children of Eyam”: The Dramatization of History Peter Hollindale Different treatments of a famous episode in English history exemplify the choices open to historical novelists What Are You Laughing At? Differences in Children’s and Adults’ Humorous Book Selections for Children Gail Munde A survey of differences between children’s and adults’ book choices Essay Review: Children’s Literature Studies: The State of the Art? David Lewis