Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Consulting editors; Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction definitions themes changes attitudes; 2 Internationalism the universal child and the world of children's literature; 3 Theorising and theories the conditions of possibility of children's literature; 4Criticism and the critical mainstream; 5 Critical tradition and ideological positioning; 6 History and culture; 7 Linguistics and stylistics; 8 Reader response criticism; 9 Psychoanalytical criticism; 10 Feminism revisited; 11 Picture books and illustration
Summary
Children's publishing is a huge international industry and there is ever-growing interest from researchers and students in the genre as cultural object of study and tool for education and socialization
