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CONTENTS (VOLUME 23) Volume 23, No. 1 Editors’ Introduction Karin Lesnik-Oberstein, Catriona Nicholson, and Tony Watkins The Devil and Madame Doubtfire: Anne Fine and the Revolution in Contemporary British Children’s Fiction Peter Hunt The Real Adolescent: Performance and Negativity in Melvyn Burgess’s Junk Stephen Thomson Drawing Out Ideas: A Second Decade of the Work of Anthony Browne Jane Doonan Michael Rosen and Contemporary British Poetry for Children Michael Lockwood On the Inside Looking In: Contemporary Anglo-Welsh Fantasy . . Elizabeth L. Pandolfo Briggs Exodus from the City: Peter Dickinson’s Eva Kathryn V. Graham Only Make-Believe? Lies, Fictions, and Metafictions in Geraldine McCaughrean’s A Pack of Lies and Philip Pullman’s Clockwork . Dudley Jones Why the Wolves Are Running ... Peter Hollindale Talking to Philip Pullman: An Interview Wendy Parsons and Catriona Nicholson Book Review § Alida Allison, /saac Bashevis Singer: Children’s Stories and Childhood Memories Diana Arlene Chlebek Sandra L. Beckett, ed., Reflections of Change: Children’s Literature since 1945.... Judith Gero John Gretchen R. Galbraith, Reading Lives: Reconstructing Childhood, Books, and Schools in Britain, 1870-1920 > ieieiene oleje a ee David Rudd Leonard S. Marcus, ed. Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom... . George R. Bodme1 Ronald Reichertz, The Making of the Alice Books: Lewis Carroll’s Uses of Earlier Children’s Literature; August A. Imholtz, Jr. and Charlie Lovett, eds. Jn Memoriam: Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, 1832-1898: Obituaries of Lewis Carroll and Related Pieces ... 149 Jan Susina In Memoriam: Francelia Esther McWilliams Butler ............ 154 Anne Devereaux Jordan Volume 23, No. 2 Metalinguistic Awareness and the Child’s Developing Concept of Irony: The Reiationship between Pictures and Texts in Ironic Picture Books Bettina Kiimmerling-Meibauer Children’s Classics in the Electronic Medium . Sally Maynard, Cliff McKnight, and Melanie Keady Amy Tan’s The Chinese Siamese Cat: Chinoiserie and Ethnic Stereotypes Sheng-mei Ma Refugees and Immigrants: The Southeast Asian Experience as Depicted in Recent American Children’s Books Michael M. Levy “Do You Know What ‘Auschwitz’ Means?”: Children’s Literature and the Holocaust Adrienne Kertzer The Pedagogy of the Post-Modern Text: Aidan Chamber’ s The Toll Bridge Joanna J. Klinker From Bank Street to Harlem: A Conversation with Ellen Tarry Katharine Capshaw Smith Book Reviews A Lifetime’s Journey: The Opies and the Folklore of Childhood: An Essay Review Gillian Avery G. Wayne Miller, Toy Wars: The Epic Struggle between G.I. Joe, Barbie, and the Companies That Make Them . . Jan Susina Gail Schmunk Murray, American Children’s Literature and the Construction of Childhood Richard Flynn David Michaelis, N. C. Wyeth: A Biography ... George R. Bodmer Volume 23, No. 3 Editor’s Introduction Kenneth Kidd The Medici Aesop: A Homosocial Renaissance Picture Book . . Gillian Adams Oscar Wilde, Victorian Fairy Tales, and the Meanings of Atonement Elizabeth Goodenough Spectacular Child Bodies: The Sexual Politics of Cross-Dressing and Calisthenics in the Writings of Eliza Leslie and Catharine Beecher Etsuko Taketani Missionary Positions: Taming the Savage Girl in Louisa May Alcott’s Jack and Jill . Maude Hines Postmodern Periods: Menstruation Media in the 1990s. Michelle H. Martin Transchildren and the Discipline of Children’s Literature Jody Norton Book Reviews Anne Higonnet, Pictures of Innocence: The History and Crisis of Ideal Childhood Patricia Pace Lissa Paul, Reading Otherways Teya Rosenberg L. Frank Baum, Our Landlady, edited by Nancy Tystad Koupal. . . . Mark I. West Meena Khorana, ed., Critical Perspectives on Postcolonial African Children’s and Young Adult Literature A. Waller Hastings *,