Introduction: irresponsible writers and responsible readers / V. Watson -- The possibilities of children's fiction / V. Watson -- The making of stories for children / P. Pearce -- Leave the talking to us / C. Powling -- The inevitability of transformation: designing picture books for children and adults / J. Ormerod -- When the aliens wanted water: media education--children's critical frontiers / C. Pompe -- Just a kind of music: children as poets / M. Styles -- Come to my surprisement: children composing stories / B. Smith -- The pearl princess and the whale's stomach: active storytelling with children / L. Hendy
Analysis
Children's literature
Notes
"... developed from a conference on children's literature held at Homerton College in September 1990"--p. [x1]