FC; Half title; Bloomsbury Perspectives on Children's Literature; Title; Copyright; Quote; Dedication; Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Children's poetry: The problem child; Mind and body; 1 Tact; The hidden child; Not narrative; In our right minds?; The infancy of language; The language of infancy; The crossing; The container; Tactful language; Tact and tactility; 2 Tongue; Ear and voice; Orality and vocality; And another thing; Making lists; Again and again; Here and now; All join in!; Live and in performance; 3 Text; Hand and eye
From performance to pageFrom A to Z; The poetics of the page; The distances of text; The child and the text; Conclusion; Orality and textuality; Criticism and reading children's poetry; Glossary; Bibliography; Index
