Children’s literature studies: general Books

Book SynopsisJane Newland focuses on children's texts by some of the authors who fascinate Deleuze, including Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Lewis Carroll, Andre Dhtel, Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio and Michel Tournier. They are explored across chapters on central Deleuzian concepts: pure repetition, becoming, cartographies, stuttering and nonsense.

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Book SynopsisConversations with Madeleine L'Engle is the first collection of interviews with the beloved children's book author best known for her 1962 Newbery Award-winning novel, A Wrinkle in Time. However, Madeleine L'Engle's accomplishments as a writer spread far beyond children's literature. Beginning her career as a literary novelist for adults, L'Engle (1918-2007) continued to write fiction for both young and old long after A Wrinkle in Time. In her sixties, she published personal memoirs and devotional texts that explored her relationship with religion. At the time of her death, L'Engle was mourned by fans of her children's books and the larger Christian community.L'Engle's books, as well as her life, were often marked by contradictions. A consummate storyteller, L'Engle carefully crafted and performed a public self-image via her interviews. Weaving through the documentable facts in these interviews are partial lies, misdirections, and w

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Book SynopsisThis collection brings together scholars from disciplines including Children’s Literature, Classics, and History to develop fresh approaches to children’s culture and the uses of the past. It charts the significance of historical episodes and characters during the long nineteenth-century (1750-1914), a critical period in children's culture. Boys and girls across social classes often experienced different pasts simultaneously, for purposes of amusement and instruction. The book highlights an active and shifting market in history for children, and reveals how children were actively involved in consuming and repackaging the past: from playing with historically themed toys and games to performing in plays and pageants. Each chapter reconstructs encounters across different media, uncovering the cultural work done by particular pasts and exposing the key role of playfulness in the British historical imagination.Trade Review‘Pasts at play makes a valuable contribution to scholarship on informal learning, revealing how much more we understand about the history of education when we look beyond the school gates.’ Siân Pooley, Victorian Studies -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction: pasts at play – Rachel Bryant Davies and Barbara GriblingPart I: Biblical and archaeological pasts1 Noah’s Ark-aeology and nineteenth-century children – Melanie Keene2 Bringing Egypt home: children’s encounters with ancient Egypt in the long nineteenth century – Virginia ZimmermanPart II: Classical pasts3 Didactic heroes: masculinity, sexuality and exploration in the Argonaut story of Kingsley’s The Heroes – Helen Lovatt4 ‘Fun from the Classics’: puzzling antiquity in The Boy’s Own Paper – Rachel Bryant DaviesPart III: Medieval and early modern pasts5 Youthful consumption and conservative visions: Robin Hood and Wat Tyler in late Victorian penny periodicals – Stephen Basdeo6 A tale of two ladies? Stuart women as role models for Victorian and Edwardian girls and young women – Rosemary MitchellPart IV: Revived pasts7 Tarry-at-home antiquarians: children’s ‘tour books’ 1740–1840 – M. O. Grenby8 Playing with the past: child consumers, pedagogy and British history games, c. 1780–1850 – Barbara Gribling9 Re-enacting local history in the Stepney Children’s Pageant, 1909 – Ellie ReidAppendix A: A list of 'tour books' – M. O. GrenbyAppendix B: A list of British history-themed toys and games – Barbara GriblingIndex

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Book SynopsisTeaching Tough Topics shows teachers how to lead students to become caring citizens as they read and respond to quality children’s literature. It focuses on topics that can be challenging or sensitive, yet are significant in order to build understanding of social justice, diversity, and equity. Racism, Homophobia, Bullying, Religious Intolerance, Poverty, and Physical and Mental Challenges are just some of the themes explored. The book is rooted in the belief that by using picture books, novels, poetry, and nonfiction, teachers can enrich learning with compassion and empathy as students make connections to texts, to others, and to the world.Trade Review"Teaching Tough Topics is a wonderful starter for new primary/junior teachers of literature who are developing lists of picture and junior books that evoke language arts discussions with young students...If you are looking for that one transformational book, begin with this one." - Professionally Speaking

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Book SynopsisRecently publishers on the Christian Right have been reprinting nineteenth-century children’s history books and marketing them to parents as “anchor texts” for homeschool instruction. Why, Gregory M. Pfitzer asks, would books written more than 150 years ago be presumed suitable for educating twenty-first-century children? The answer, he proposes, is that promoters of these recycled works believe that history as a discipline took a wrong turn in the early twentieth century, when progressive educators introduced social studies methodologies into public school history classrooms, foisting upon unsuspecting and vulnerable children ideologically distorted history books.In History Repeating Itself, Pfitzer tests these assertions by scrutinizing and contextualizing the original nineteenth-century texts on which these republications are based. He focuses on how the writers borrowed from one another to produce works that were similar in many ways yet differed markedly in terms of pedagogical strategy and philosophy of history. Pfitzer demonstrates that far from being non-ideological, these works were rooted in intense contemporary debates over changing conceptions of childhood.Pfitzer argues that the repurposing of antiquated texts reveals a misplaced resistance to the idea of a contested past. He also raises essential philosophical questions about how and why curricular decisions are shaped by the “past we choose to remember” on behalf of our children.

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Book SynopsisThis volume of twenty essays presents a unique insight into the world of Scottish children's literature throughout the long nineteenth century. As well as revisiting much-loved authors such as Stevenson, Barrie, and MacDonald, it explores the neglected role of women writers in shaping the inheritance of Scottish children's literature, the significant contribution of Gaelic writers, and the role of folklore and tradition. Essays also examine the significance of children as literary protagonists, and as readers themselves. In recovering these marginal voices and texts, and in showing how well-known stories explore questions of culture, identity, and language, The Land of Story-Booksseeks to restore the traditions of children's writing to the heart of Scottish literary history.

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Book SynopsisDrawing across Games Studies, Childhood Studies, and Children’s Literature Studies, this book redirects critical conversations away from questions of whether videogames are ‘good’ or ‘bad’ for child-players and towards questions of how videogames produce childhood as a set of social roles and rules in contemporary Western contexts. It does so by cataloguing and critiquing representations of childhood across a corpus of over 500 contemporary videogames. While child-players are frequently the topic of academic debate – particularly within the fields of psychology, behavioural science, and education research - child-characters in videogames are all but invisible. This book's aim is to make these child-characters not only visible, but legible, and to demonstrate that coded kids in virtual worlds can shed light on how and why the boundaries between adults and children are shifting. Table of ContentsChapter One: Dreaming the Myth Onwards - A Seat at the Kid’s Table - Childish Violence and Violent Children - Adult Joy - Destabilising Age-Based Identities - Chapter Overview Chapter Two: A Survey of Child-Characters in Contemporary Videogames - The Invisible Child - The Invincible Child - Playable Child-Characters - Central, Supporting, Background - Age, Race, Gender - Supporting Child-Characters - Death - Child-Antagonists - A Shared Shorthand - Approaches to Generating a Taxonomies of Child-Characters - Laying Bare the Faults - Critical Ekphrasis Chapter Three: The Child as a Social Construct - Coded Kids - Boy or Blob? - History of The Child - Who Thinks Beating a Child is Entertainment? - Misogyny and Infantilisation Chapter Four: Child Killers and Killer Children - Agency and Eeriness - Little Monsters - Authority and Autonomy - The Waif as an Indecipherable Cipher - Who Won? - Stereotyping as Conditioning Chapter Five: Child Heroes - An Unheroic Medium? - The Spaces Between Oppositions - It’s Dangerous to Go Alone - The Child Hero - An Inventory System Theory of Fiction - Symbiotes and Parasites Chapter Six: Plushies, Dollies, and Action Figurines - Cuddly Code - The Cute-Aggression Response - Playgrounds of Cruelty - Sensory Nostalgia as an Unscratchable Itch - Spectral Nostalgia - Intergenerational Bridges - A Distant Someplace Else - Childhood as a Magic Circle of Play Chapter Seven: The Kid in the Fridge - The Sacrificial Child - Types of Child Death - Affection, Anxiety, and Agency - Violent Retribution and the Hardness of Masculinity - Lights, Child Death, Action - Damn You, Ubisoft - The Case of Kassandra

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Book SynopsisAlice goes on another adventure through heriving roomooking-glass to a place even more curious than Wonderland. Her journey through theooking-glass world has a dream-like quality and is filled with eccentric characters and curious adventures. Here too order is turned upside-down: A queen turns into a goat, at a tea party one is not supposed to eat food and a game of chess turns a seven-year-old into a queen.However, this nonsensical world is filled with amazing wordplay and fabulous imagination. The book remains unparalleled initerature and continues to charm its readers, young and old.

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Book SynopsisIs it a plane? A bird? Or a woman''s face with features all mixed up? Welcome to the world of twenty greatest artists who taught people to view the familiar and the everyday, in ways that were new, revolutionary and never imagined before. From the Old Masters of perspective and chiaroscuro,ike Vermeer and Da Vinci, to innovators and experimenters of form,ine and material,ike Monet and Amrita Sher-Gil, these artists have shown that when it comes to art, there are noimitations on what is beautiful or evocative. This book explores theivesat times tragic and misunderstood; at times exuberant and scandalousof these great pioneers of art, candidly describing the highs andows each went through. In doing so, it also traces influential artistic movements down the ages and how they impacted the wider world of politics, culture and history. 20 Greatest Artists offers a peek into the colourfulives of great artists and their works of art.

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Book SynopsisThe Mabinogion is a group of Welsh ancient testimonies that had been translated and prepare with the help of Lady Charlotte Guest inside the 1800s. One of the most crucial cycles of Celtic folklore is advised in those legends and folktales. When Lady Guest's version came out within the middle of the 1800s, it brought the ones memories to loads greater English-talking people. There are mythological memories, heroic memories, and Arthurian memories on this series. Some of the characters are Pwyll, Branwen, and Culhwch. The Four Branches of the Mabinogi, which follows the lives of various characters and looks into magic, the future, and how the human and supernatural realms have interaction with every other, is at the coronary heart of the meeting. The translation by using Lady Charlotte Guest is praised for being both nicely-written and easy to understand. Victorian readers were added to the wealthy tapestry of Welsh legend through her art work. This sparked a brand new hobby in Celtic folklore and had an impact on later writers, together with J.R.R. Tolkien. Reading The Mabinogion is like searching into the cultural and mythical history of Wales inside the Middle Ages. Lady Guest's translation has made a big distinction in how an awful lot people understand and admire Celtic literature. It has additionally made positive that these recollections will stay on within the large literary lifestyle.

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Book SynopsisA beautifully illustrated exploration of how Victorian novelty picture books reshape the ways children read and interact with texts The Victorian era saw an explosion of novelty picture books with flaps to lift and tabs to pull, pages that could fold out, pop-up scenes, and even mechanical toys mounted on pages. Analyzing books for young children published between 1835 and 1914, Playing with the Book studies how these elaborately designed works raise questions not just about what books should look like but also about what reading is, particularly in relation to children’s literature and child readers. Novelty books promised (or threatened) to make reading a physical as well as intellectual activity, requiring the child to pull a tab or lift a flap to continue the story. These books changed the relationship between pictures, words, and format in both productive and troubling ways. Hannah Field considers these aspects of children’s reading through case studies of different formats of novelty and movable books and intensive examination of editions that have survived from the nineteenth century. She discovers that children ripped, tore, and colored in their novelty books—despite these books’ explicit instructions against such behaviors.Richly illustrated with images of these ingenious constructions, Playing with the Book argues that novelty books construct a process of reading that involves touch as well as sight, thus reconfiguring our understanding of the phenomenology of reading.Trade Review"With impressive archival work, considerable historical contextualization, and an admirable knack for close reading, Hannah Field deftly traces how children did, and didn’t, read texts that demanded engagement from the eye, the hand, and the mind. Playing with the Book offers a powerful theory of embodied reading that emerges from a respectful, sustained engagement with these remarkable books and the children who read them."—Anna Mae Duane, editor of The Children’s Table: Childhood Studies and the Humanities"We may be underestimating the movable text’s place in the Victorian imagination. In this persuasive and lively study, Hannah Field reveals how nineteenth-century audiences played with and perceived toy theatres, panoramas, and mechanical books and describes modernity’s ferment in these powerfully nostalgic, ephemeral technologies. Movable novelties provided unique and engaging sensory experiences in the domestic space and in exhibition halls, and Field opens a critical window onto these interactive texts."—Nathalie op de Beeck, author of Suspended Animation: Children’s Picture Books and the Fairy Tale of Modernity "Such books were made to be handled and used as much as read, and as such, they offer insight into the vexing question of children's agency as readers, especially when one looks at, as Field does, physical traces—ripping, scribbling, coloring—left behind by child readers."—CHOICE"Field makes a significant contribution to what seems a niche topic, not least in her argument that it shouldn't be niche at all. At a moment when the focus of book history has shifted towards embodied reading and "doing things with books", such books—often bearing the traces of clumsy little hands—have a new kind of resonance."—Times Literary Supplement"A well-written, thought-provoking, and timely book."—Barnboken"Close attention to embodied engagement and agency is a strength of Field’s Playing with the Book."—Victorian Studies "A valuable addition to graduate and undergraduate-level courses in children’s literature, book history, and Victorian studies... Playing with the Book teaches readers that we might pave the future of children’s literature by looking back into the past innovations and complications of movable books."—ImageText "Field provides insightful readings and thoughtful considerations of novelty and movable books."—Children’s Literature Association QuarterlyTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Novelty Value1. The Three Rs: Reading, Ripping, Reconstructing2. Against the Wall: Stories, Spaces, and the Children’s Panorama3. The Movable Book in 3-D4. Ernest Nister Christopher Columbus: The Tale of a Dissolving-View Book5. Going through the Motions: Lothar Meggendorfer and the Mechanical Book Conclusion: Novelty Book HistoryAcknowledgmentsNotes Index

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Book SynopsisRichmal Crompton, Author of Just William: A Literary Life celebrates the first two William books, Just William (1922) and More William (1922). As well as a study of her famous character William Brown, this book is an introduction to Richmal Crompton’s less well-known fiction and a story about her writing life. Her multifaceted identity—her deep knowledge of Classical Greek and Latin literature and languages, her life as a disabled writer, and her writing about domestic violence and disability—played a role in her literary persona. Jane McVeigh moves beyond Richmal Crompton’s impact on children’s literature and offers an appraisal of all her writing including her novels and short fiction, her media profile on radio and TV, her impact on her readers—both adults and children—and her international success. Particularly, McVeigh considers Crompton in the context of twentieth century woman writers and the development of crossover fiction for dual audiences. The book argues that as a woman writer pigeon-holed as a writer for children, Crompton’s other novels and short stories have been side-lined and overlooked. More than a century after the first book collection of Crompton’s William stories was published, this biography places Richmal Crompton among other twentieth century women writers.Trade Review“Jane McVeigh has written an informative and comprehensive biography to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the publication of the first two William novels, Just William and More William in 1922, now collector's items worth thousands of dollars. … McVeigh effectively documents the life of one of the best-selling female authors of the 20th century, who, in William Brown, created one of the immortals of children's literature.” (Colin Steele, The Canberra Times, canberratimes.com.au, December 23, 2022)“The books alone were enormously popular, the adaptation of just William for radio, television and film have helped ensure this naughty schoolboy will forever be remembered in post-war British culture. By 1946 the BBC radio plays – many of them written by Crompton herself – were enjoying an audience of nine million.” (Dominic Bliss, Daily Express, express.co.uk, December 16, 2022)“Jane McVeigh’s book celebrates the centenary of the first two William books – Just William and More William, both published in 1922. … The work is attractively produced with many illustrations, and its twenty chapters are extremely well researched with substantial notes and references. What it does, first of all, is to emphasise Richmal’s very rich and full life.” (Dennis Butts, Children’s Books History Society, Newsletter, Issue 133, August, 2022)“This is a model biography for the way it delivers the facts about the life of its subject and analyses the attraction or magic of the stories for subsequent writers, as well as readers across generations. The best praise of this biography is that it will send many readers back to encounter the thrills of reading once more of William’s misadventures.” (Sarah Curtis, TLS The Times Literary Supplement, July 22, 2022)Table of Contents1. Introduction PART I (1890-191122. Edward Lamburn and a Classical Education3. William and Mr Brown 4. Clara Crompton and her Family in Bury5. William, Mrs Brown and Mothers in Crompton’s Fiction PART II (1911-1923)6. Royal Holloway College, the First World War and Women’s Suffrage7. Birth of Auntie and the Story of a Marriage8. Birth of Richmal Crompton and William Brown 9. More than Auntie Richmal, the Spinster10. Polio in Summer 1923 PART III (1924-1938)11. Birth of Violet Elizabeth and Introducing William-Lite Characters 12. Growing Up13. On Stage and in Literary London14. Richmal Crompton, the Wanderer PART IV (1939-1945)15. On the Home Front with William and Richmal16. William, Flawed Hero PART V (1946-1969)17. William Becomes a Postwar Hero on TV and Radio18. Richmal Crompton in Her Own Words PART VI (Fans at Home and Abroad)19. William, At Home and Abroad20. Writers’ Homage to Crompton and William

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Book SynopsisContributors: Lauren Berlant, U of Chicago; Andre Furlani, Concordia U; Judith Halberstam, U of California, San Diego; Ellis Hanson, Cornell U; Paul Kelleher; Kathryn Kent, Williams College; James Kincaid, U of Southern California; Richard Mohr, U of Illinois, Urbana; Michael Moon, Johns Hopkins U; Kevin Ohi, Boston College;.

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Book SynopsisThe fairy tales collected by the brothers Grimm are among the best known and most widely-read stories in western literature. In recent years commentators such as Bruno Bettelheim have, usually from a psychological perspective, pondered the underlying meaning of the stories, why children are so enthralled by them, and what effect they have on the developing child. In this book, Ronald Murphy takes five of the best-known tales (Hansel and Gretel, Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, Snow White, and Sleeping Beauty) and shows that the Grimms saw them as Christian fables. Murphy examines the arguments of previous interpreters of the tales, and demonstrates how they missed the Grimms'' intention. His own readings of the five so-called magical tales reveal them as the beautiful and inspiring documents of faith that the Grimms meant them to be. Offering an entirely new perspective on these often-analyzed tales, Murphy''s book will appeal to those concerned with the moral and religious educatioTrade ReviewMurphy had done the Brothers Grimm a great service ... But he has done more than that. He has brought home to us the essentially hospitable nature of the stories ... admirable. The TabletMurphy has added several dazzling layers of meaning to the tales. * First Things *

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Book SynopsisThis eBook+ version includes the following enhancements: interactive features and links to the up-to-date Companion Website, with more strategies and examples of practice and student work. This book's unique and engaging voice, supported by its many resources, will help future and in-service teachers bring the language arts to life in their own classrooms.This book helps readers envision their future classrooms, including the role technology will play, as they prepare to be successful teachers. Comprehensively updated, the second edition addresses new demands on teaching in traditional and virtual ELA classrooms, and the new ways technology facilitates effective instructional practices. Organized around the receptive language artsthe way learners receive informationand the expressive language artsthe way leaners express ideaschapters cover all aspects of language arts instruction, including new information on planning and assessment; teaching reading and writingTable of ContentsPrefaceChapter 1. Language Arts and Creating a Supportive Learning SpaceChapter 2. Planning and Assessment in the Language ArtsChapter 3. Reading FundamentalsChapter 4. Reading to Enhance MeaningChapter 5. Listening and ViewingChapter 6. Assessing the Receptive ModesChapter 7. Writing as A ProcessChapter 8. Writing Tools for Enhancing MeaningChapter 9. Speaking and Visually RepresentingChapter 10. Assessing the Expressive Modes

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Book SynopsisContaining forty-eight chapters, The Routledge Companion to Picturebooks is the ultimate guide to picturebooks. It contains a detailed introduction, surveying the history and development of the field and emphasizing the international and cultural diversity of picturebooks. Divided into five key parts, this volume covers: Concepts and topics â from hybridity and ideology to metafiction and emotions; Genres â from baby books through to picturebooks for adults; Interfaces â their relations to other forms such as comics and visual media; Domains and theoretical approaches, including developmental psychology and cognitive studies; Adaptations. With ground-breaking contributions from leading and emerging scholars alike, this comprehensive volume is one of theTrade Review"The articles in the companion are indeed carefully anchored in compelling picturebook material, and each chapter offers a volu-minous list of references, which makes the volume perfect for teach-ing purposes. The generous lists of references also provide excellent sources for further research. It is evident that this well-written and pedagogical companion will inspire new studies and help diversify this manifold, complex and growing field of research further."- Mia Österlund, Åbo Akademi University, BarnbokenTable of Contents Introduction: Picturebook Research Comes of Age Bettina Kümmerling-MeibauerPART I: Concepts and Topics1. Author-Illustrator Kerry Mallan 2. Picture-Text-Relationships in Picturebooks Nathalie op de Beeck 3. Layout of Picturebooks Megan Lambert 4. Paratexts in Picturebooks Sylvia Pantaleo5. Montage and Collage in Picturebooks Elina Druker 6. Materiality in Picturebooks Ilgim Veryeri Alaca7. Picturebooks and Metafiction Cecilia Silva-Díaz 8. Hybridity in Picturebooks Helma van Lierop-Debrauwer 9. Interpictoriality in Picturebooks Beatriz Hoster Cabo, Maria José Lobato Suero, and Alberto Manuel Ruiz Campos 10. Seriality in Picturebooks Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer 11. Emotions in Picturebooks Maria Nikolajeva 12. Picturebooks and Gender Karen Coats 13. Canon Processes and Picturebooks Erica Hateley 14. Picturebooks and Ideology John Stephens PART II: Picturebook Categories15. Early Concept Books and Concept Books Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer and Jörg Meibauer 16. Wimmelbooks Cornelia Rémi 17. ABC Books Marie-Pierre Litaudon18. Pop Up and Movable Books Ann Montanaro Staples 19. Wordless Picturebooks Emma Bosch 20. Postmodern Picturebooks Cherie Allan 21. Crossover Picturebooks Sandra Beckett 22. Picturebooks for Adults Åse Marie Ommundsen 23. Informational Picturebooks Nikola von Merveldt24. Poetry in Picturebooks Donelle Ruwe 25. Multilingual Picturebooks Nancy Hadaway and Terrell Young 26. Digital Picturebooks Maria Nikolajeva and Ghada Al-Yaquot PART III: Interfaces27. Picturebooks and Illustrated Books Elizabeth Bird and Junko Yokota 28. Artists’ Books and Picturebooks Johanna Drucker 29. Picturebooks and Photography Jane Wattenberg 30. Picturebooks and Comics Lara Saguisag 31. Picturebooks and Movies Tobias Kurwinkel PART IV: Domains32. The Education of a Picturebook-Maker Martin Salisbury33. Research in Picturebooks: The Wider Path William Moebius 34. Picturebooks and Representations of Childhood Nina Christensen 35. Picturebooks and Literacy Studies Evelyn Arizpe, Jennifer Farrar, and Julie McAdam36. Picturebooks and Developmental Psychology Elaine Reese and Jessica Johnston37. Picturebooks and Cognitive Studies Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer and Jörg Meibauer 38. Picturebooks and Linguistics Eva Gressnich 39. Picturebooks and Narratology Smiljana Narancic Kovac 40. Multimodal Analysis of Picturebooks Clare Painter 41. Art History and the Picturebook Marilynn Olson 42. Picture Theory and Picturebooks Lukas Wilde and Nikolas Potysch 43. Picturebooks and Media StudiesMargaret Mackey 44. Picturebooks and Translation Riitta Oittinen PART V: Adaptations and Remediation45. Picturebooks as Adaptations of Fairy Tales Vanessa Joosen 46. Picturebooks as Adaptations of World Literature Marlene Zöhrer 47. Film Versions of Picturebooks Johanna Tydecks 48. Picturebooks, Merchandising, and Franchising Naomi Hamer

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Book SynopsisFeaturing a timely and diverse cross-section of frequently targeted titles, complete with many quotes and comments from authors whose works have been challenged, this book will be an important tool for library managers, children's and YA librarians, and teachers.

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Book SynopsisFrom The Hobbit to Harry Potter, how fantasy harnesses the cultural power of magic, medievalism, and childhood to re-enchant the modern world Why are so many people drawn to fantasy set in medieval, British-looking lands? This question has immediate significance for millions around the world: from fans of Lord of the Rings, Narnia, Harry Potter, and Game of Thrones to those who avoid fantasy because of the racist, sexist, and escapist tendencies they have found there. Drawing on the history and power of children’s fantasy literature, Re-Enchanted argues that magic, medievalism, and childhood hold the paradoxical ability to re-enchant modern life.Focusing on works by authors such as J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Susan Cooper, Philip Pullman, J. K. Rowling, and Nnedi Okorafor, Re-Enchanted uncovers a new genealogy for medievalist fantasy—one that reveals the genre to be as important to the history of English studies and literary modernism as it is to shaping beliefs across geographies and generations. Maria Sachiko Cecire follows children’s fantasy as it transforms over the twentieth and twenty-first centuries—including the rise of diverse counternarratives and fantasy’s move into “high-brow” literary fiction. Grounded in a combination of archival scholarship and literary and cultural analysis, Re-Enchanted argues that medievalist fantasy has become a psychologized landscape for contemporary explorations of what it means to grow up, live well, and belong. The influential “Oxford School” of children’s fantasy connects to key issues throughout this book, from the legacies of empire and racial exclusion in children’s literature to what Christmas magic tells us about the roles of childhood and enchantment in Anglo-American culture.Re-Enchanted engages with critical debates around what constitutes high and low culture during moments of crisis in the humanities, political and affective uses of childhood and the mythological past, the anxieties of modernity, and the social impact of racially charged origin stories.Trade Review"Re-Enchanted is essential for the study of the fantastic. While other recent critical studies have focused on fantasy’s origins before 1900 or the genre’s place in the contemporary literary landscape, Maria Sachiko Cecire focuses the reader on the influence of the Oxford School fantasists, also known as the ‘Inklings,’ who mapped the world of story through perspectives influenced by their times. Thus, fantasy was left behind while the rest of the world changed. Re-Enchanted reminds us of the ways that English-language fantasy is, was, and can continue to be an instrument of empire. Engaging, thorough, and absolutely necessary."—Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, author of The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games"Full of revelatory scholarship on J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Phillip Pullman, and their heirs, Re-Enchanted makes the case for scholarship itself at the heart of fantasy. No one will read The Lord of the Rings or His Dark Materials again without realizing just how much Oxford itself—its libraries and its landscape—scripted their imaginations and how its syllabi inspire, to this day, Harry Potter, The Magicians, and beyond."—Seth Lerer, author of Children's Literature: A Reader's History, from Aesop to Harry Potter"In the twenty-first century, fantasy has become a way of speaking, in fiction (adults or children's) and outside it. Here Maria Sachiko Cecire interrogates the Oxford roots of something that has become, like wallpaper, part of our world, and helps us to see the landscape of J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis, of Diana Wynne Jones and Philip Pullman, and understand how that landscape became universal, the ways it buoys us up and the ways that it fails us."—Neil Gaiman "Cecire calls upon readers to acknowledge the dangers of the Oxford School’s project while recognizing the cultural power its members harnessed. She encourages us to embrace and explore new ways of expanding the scope of the tropes of children’s fantasy to become more inclusive in the ways it reaches into the past to find magic in a difficult contemporary world."—Medievally Speaking"Effectively, Cecire proves that in terms of modern children’s fantasy literature, all roads lead to the Oxford School."—CHOICE"Cecire illustrates brilliantly how Tolkien and Lewis took the building blocks of medieval literature and historical linguistics and created alternative worlds."—Times Literary Supplement"An important and endlessly engaging book that will provoke much further thought and discussion."—Mythlore"A compelling case both for training our critical attention on medieval and medievalist literature and for expanding the texts we read, teach, study, and share."—The Medieval Review"Re-Enchanted reveals how magic mystifies ideologies, embedding antimodernist, nationalist, colonialist ideas in children’s fantasy, concealing them in an invisibility cloak of (white) childhood innocence. It’s an essential book for anyone who wants to unlearn the hidden assumptions of our own childhood reading and find better stories for the next generation. "—ALH Online Review

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Book SynopsisNamed Honor Book of the Year by the Children’s Literature Association Winner: 2003 Canadian Jewish Book Award for scholarship on a Jewish subjectFinalist: 2003 Alberta Book Awards Scholarly Book of the YearHow do children’s books represent the Holocaust? How do such books negotiate the tension between the desire to protect children, and the commitment to tell children the truth about the world? If Holocaust representations in children’s books respect the narrative conventions of hope and happy endings, how do they differ, if at all, from popular representations intended for adult audiences? And where does innocence lie, if the children’s fable of Roberto Benigni’s Life is Beautiful is marketed for adults, and far more troubling survivor memoirs such as Anita Lobel’s No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War are marketed for children? How should Holocaust Studies integrate discourse about children’s literature into its discussions? In approaching these and other questions, Kertzer uses the lens of children’s literature to problematize the ways in which various adult discourses represent the Holocaust, and continually challenges the conventional belief that children’s literature is the place for easy answers and optimistic lessons.Trade Review“Adrienne Kertzer’s My Mother’s Voice is, as its title suggests, a book inspired and informed by personal experience, but the questions it raises have never been more vital for all of us: how do we represent to children an evil that defies our powers of imagination, let alone our comprehension? How do we convey, in addition to historical facts, the enormity and inexorability of the crime while continuing to encourage hope and a sense that individual choice can make a difference? Kertzer provides no easy or definitive answers to such questions; rather, through detailed analysis of a wide range of texts, from The Diary of Anne Frank to Daniel’s Story (commissioned by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum) to Stephen King’s Apt Pupil, she convincingly demonstrates just how difficult the questions are and how simplistic, disingenuous, tortuous, or counterproductive many of our efforts to enlighten and inspire the young have been. For scholars and theorists of children’s literature, her book is especially fascinating, for, in dealing with the subject of Holocaust representation, Kertzer reintroduces questions that have long challenged us: does children’s literature constitute a distinct genre and, if so, what are its distinguishing characteristics? How does literature for adults, especially literature that features a child’s voice or perspective, differ from that written expressly for children? This profound and thought-provoking book should be read by everyone who is interested in children’s literature, the history of childhood, the education of children, or representations of the Holocaust (or, for that matter, of any evil that leaves us at a loss for words).” — Elizabeth Lennox Keyser, Professor of English, Hollins University, and Editor, Children’s LiteratureTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsPrefacePart I: Maternal Voices My Mothers Voice: Telling Children About the Holocaust “Do You Know What ‘Auschwitz’ Means?” A Daughters Endless Mourning: Maternal Representation in Isabella Leitner’s Memoirs Part II: The Voices of Children Reading Anne Frank Today: Lessons,Innocence, and the Voices of Children A Multitude of Voices: The Production of Daniel’s Story Part III: The Child in the Picture Like a Fable, Not a Pretty Picture: Holocaust Representation in RobertoBenigni and Anita Lobel Saving the Picture: Holocaust Photographs in Children’s Books Part IV: History and Pedagogy Looking in the Baby Carriage: Representation, Gender, and Choice Future Tense: The Anxious Pedagogy of Young Adult Fiction My Mother’s Voice: June 1963Works CitedIndex

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Book SynopsisIt wasn’t so long ago that the fairy tale was comfortably settled as an established and respectable part of children’s literature. Since the fairy tale has always been a mirror of its times, however, we should not be surprised that in the latter part of the twentieth century it turned dark and ambiguous; its categorical distinction between good and evil was increasingly at odds with the times. Yet whatever changes the fairy tale may have undergone, its cultural popularity has never been greater.Fairy Tales in Popular Culture sets out to show how the tale has been adapted to meet the needs of the contemporary world; how writers, film-makers, artists, and other communicators have found in its universality an ideal vehicle for speaking to the here-and-now; and how social media have created a participatory culture that has re-invented the fairy tale. A selection of recent retellings show how the tale is being recalibrated for the contemporary world, first through the word and then through the image.In addition to the introductions that precede each section, the anthology provides a selection of critical pieces that offer lively insight into various aspects of the fairy tale as popular culture.Trade Review“The Big Bad Wolf in comics. Red Riding Hood selling lipstick. Voluptuous Goldilocks as psychopath. Think you know fairy tales? Fairy Tales in Popular Culture examines the modern metamorphosis of fairy tales by looking at them through the colourful lens of popular culture. This is a text not to be missed for those keen on understanding just how steeped today’s society is in fairy tale mystique.” — Erin Robb, Langara College“Martin Hallett and Barbara Karasek provide an exciting and timely look at the fairy tale’s triumphant return and at its ability to remain provocative among adult audiences in the digital age. Accessible, insightful, and entertaining, Hallett and Karasek’s volume highlights the subversive cultural work of timeless stories that continue to enchant us.” — Rebecca Lush, California State University San Marcos“Hallett and Karasek clearly have their finger on the pulse of contemporary fairy-tale retellings.” — Kirsten Møllegaard, FolkloreTable of Contents Introduction: The Fairy Tale and Popular Culture The Art of Retelling Prose 1. Gregory Maguire, "The Three Little Penguins and the Big Bad Walrus" 2. Adam Gidwitz, Introduction to A Tale Dark and Grimm 3. Robin McKinley, "The Princess and the Frog" 4. Garth Nix, "Hansel's Eyes" 5. Neil Gaiman, "Snow, Glass, Apples" 6. Kim Addonizio, "Ever After" 7. James Finn Garner, "Jack and the Beanstalk" Poetry and Lyrics 1. Roald Dahl, "The Three Little Pigs" 2. Shel Silverstein, "Mirror, Mirror" 3. Tim Seibles, "What Bugs Bunny Said To Red Riding Hood" 4. Katharyn Howd Machan, "Hazel tells Laverne" 5. Anita Baker, "Fairy Tales" 6. Sara Bareilles, "Fairytale" The Comic Book and the Graphic Novel 1. Will Eisner, from The Princess and the Frog 2. Bill Willingham, from Fables 3. Tyler & Tedesco, from Grimm Fairy Tales 4. Jonathan Vankin (ed.), from The Big Book of Grimm 5. Sean Dietrich, from Hansel and Gretel 6. Shannon and Dean Hale, from Rapunzel's Revenge Illustration and Art 1. Gustave Doré, from ""Little Thumb"" 2. Arthur Rackham, from ""The Frog Prince"" 3. Michael Foreman, from "Briar-Rose or, The Sleeping Beauty" 4. Sarah Moon, from Little Red Riding Hood 5. Szieszka and Lane Smith, from The Stinky Cheese Man 6. Camille Rose Garcia, from Snow White 7. Kiki Smith, "Born" 8. Paula Rego, "Snow White" 9. Marlene Dumas, "Snow White and the Broken Arm" The Stage The Movies Television Advertising 1. Amnesty International, "Little Red Riding Hood" 2. Burger King, "Little Red Riding Hood" 3. "Snow White" Anthropologie catalogue cover 4. Ajuda de Mae, "Snow White" 5. Melissa, "Rapunzel" 6. Pantene, "Rapunzel" 7. Brain Candy Toys, "Cinderella" Participatory Culture Epilogue: The Fairy-Tale Wedding Criticism 1. Sarah Bonner, "Visualising Little Red Riding Hood" 2. Maria Tatar, "Fairy Tales in the Age of Terror" 3. Henry A. Giroux & Grace Pollock, "Disney and the Politics of Public Culture" 4. Gail de Vos, "Storytelling, Folktales and the Comic-Book Format" 5. Catherine Orenstein, "Red Hot Riding Hood: A Babe in the Woods" 6. Graeme McMillan, "Another Bite of the Poisoned Apple" 7. Emily Rome, "'Once Upon a Time' Team: We Show Women Who Aren't Afraid of Power" 8. Alex Fury, "The Fairest of Them All" 9. Jessica Tiffin, "Magical Illusion: Fairy-Tale Film" Bibliography

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Book SynopsisContinuously in print and translated into multiple languages since it was first published, Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty is a classic work of children’s literature and an important text in the fields of Victorian studies and animal studies. Writing to “induce kindness, sympathy and an understanding treatment of horses,” Sewell realistically documents the working conditions of Black Beauty, who moves down the social scale from a rural carriage horse to a delivery horse in London. Sewell makes visible and tangible the experience of animals who were often treated as if they were machines. Though she died shortly after it was published, Sewell’s book contributed significantly to late nineteenth-century campaigns for humane treatment of horses and remains a seminal anti-cruelty text today.The Broadview Press edition reproduces the first edition of 1877, restoring material often abridged in other modern editions. Appendices include materials on contemporary animal-rights movements, “equine management,” and Victorian understandings of animal emotions.Trade Review“No animal narrative captures the complexity of Victorian relations with animals better than Black Beauty. This edition offers an invaluable introduction to the novel and the burgeoning field of Victorian animal studies. In addition, Guest’s excerpts of primary documents plunge readers into the physical, material, and affective conditions not only of domestic animals, but also of the authors and advocates who longed to understand and protect them.” — Teresa Mangum, University of Iowa“Students, as well as the growing number of literary scholars working in animal studies, will benefit immensely from this edition. Guest places the novel in the context of disparate, but overlapping, discourses in Victorian England: animal rights and anti-vivisection, scientific analyses of animal emotion, industrial discourse that linked horses with machines, and the sentimental novel. By locating the novel within a complicated cultural milieu, Guest defends the work from those who might dismiss it as a didactic tale for children. Her final note tying the cruelty suffered by animals in this text with the ongoing mistreatment of animals in our culture demonstrates just how relevant Sewell’s text remains today.” — Monica Flegel, Lakehead UniversityTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionAnna Sewell: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextGlossary of CarriagesBlack Beauty: His Grooms and Companions. The Autobiography of a Horse.Appendix A: Biographical Context and Early Reception From Mary Bayly, The Life and Letters of Mrs. Sewell (1890) George T. Angell, “Introductory Chapter” to the American Humane Education Society Edition (1890) Review of Black Beauty, The Nonconformist (9 January 1878) Appendix B: Victorian Science: Questions of Animal Emotion From Charles Darwin, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872) From Thomas Huxley, “On the Hypothesis that Animals Are Automata, and Its History” (1874) From George Romanes, Animal Intelligence (1882) From George Romanes, Mental Evolution in Animals (1884) Appendix C: Victorian Industry: Horse and Machine From Fanny Kemble, Record of a Girlhood (1878) From Philip Hamerton, Chapters on Animals (1874) From W.J. Gordon, The Horse World of London (1893) Appendix D: Animal Cruelty and Animal Rights From Frances Power Cobbe, “The Rights of Man and the Claims of Brutes” (1865) From John Duke Coleridge, The Lord Chief Justice of England [Baron Coleridge] on Vivisection (1881) From Henry Salt, Animal Rights Considered in Relation to Social Progress (1892) Appendix E: Bits, Bearing Reins, and Equine Management From Henry Curling, A Lashing for the Lashers: Being an Exposition of the Cruelties Practised upon the Cab and Omnibus Horses of London (1851) From Sir Arthur Helps, Some Talk about Animals and Their Masters (1873) From Samuel Sidney, The Book of the Horse (1873) From Edward Fordham Flower, Bits and Bearing Reins (1875) From Samuel Smiles, Duty (1880) Works Cited and Select Bibliography

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Book SynopsisBook of the Week on Radio 4, and in the Observer, Sunday Times, Daily Mail and The Week 'Riveting, and immaculately written' Sunday Telegraph 'A superb psychological study of a literary genius' Business Post 'A rounded picture... and gets to Dahl's flawed, human core' Country Life 'Crisply done and well-judged' TLS Roald Dahl was one of the world's greatest storytellers. He conceived his vocation as one as intrepid as that of any explorer and, in his writing for children, he was able to tap into a child's viewpoint throughout his life. He crafted tales that were exotic in scenario, frequently invested with a moral, and filled with vibrant characters that endure in public imagination to the present day. In this brand-new biography, Matthew Dennison re-evaluates the received narrative surrounding Dahl – that of school sporting hero, daredevil pilot, and wartime spy-turned-author – and examines surviving primary resources as well as Dahl's extensive literary output to tell the story of a man who identified as a rule-breaker, an iconoclast and a romantic, both insider and outsider, hero and child's friend.Trade ReviewDevotes a large chunk of his book to Dahl's Norwegian family and schooldays; their combination of warmth, tragedy, inspiration and savagery is brilliantly evoked... [His account] makes you feel grudging admiration for a bully whose self-belief was, in a way, heroic * Sunday Times *Superb psychological study of a literary genius... Matthew Dennison's biography of Roald Dahl manages to peel back the layers of an infamously complex man * Sunday Business Post *Matthew Dennison's streamlined text clips along with an economy befitting Dahl's brusque manner... Dennison presents a rounded picture [...] and gets to Dahl's flawed, human core * Country Life *A well-researched, compact book * Observer *This book is riveting, and immaculately written * Sunday Telegraph *Brace yourself for Dahl mania... Documenting the multi-layered life of Roald Dahl as a creative maverick who created some of the most well-loved characters in literature, this biography reevaluates Dahl by examining his surviving relics * Tatler *A crisply done and well-judged survey of the outline of the life * TLS *[An] impeccably balanced new biography * Mail on Sunday *An intriguing read about a vastly talented but morally weak man * The Anglo-Celt *Dennison recasts the narrative of the daredevil pilot and spy-turned-author as a rule-breaker, romantic and ultimately a child's friend * School House *An elegant new biography... capturing [Dahl’s] grandiose, tragedy-specked life. * The New York Times *

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Book SynopsisMaurice Gee’s fiction for younger readers blends exciting stories with serious issues. Told through a range of genres, from fantasy to realism, adventure to science fiction, mysteries, psychological thrillers and gangster stories, they offer a distinctive body of work that shows New Zealand to children and young adults. This book is the first of two that pays tribute to Maurice Gee’s distinctive contribution to New Zealand literature. It argues that the depth and excitement of Gee’s fiction for young readers makes for an impressive introduction to New Zealand culture, history and storytelling. Overview chapters explore the motivations, themes, contexts and reception of Gee’s work, from the fantasy novels Under the Mountain, The World Around the Corner and the O and Salt trilogies, to the five realist and historical novels, including The Fat Man, The Champion and The Fire-Raiser. This volume will appeal to students, teachers, readers and writers of New Zealand literature, children’s literature and fantasy literature. A second book, by Lawrence Jones, will discuss Gee’s fiction for adult readers.

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Book SynopsisSave the tree, that''s a wood nymph you see!'' Readers of Indian folklore will immediately relate these words to India''s finest mythmaker and Jnanpith awardee, Chandrashekhar Kambar''s works. When the Wind God Fell Sick and Other Folk Tales, a delightful collection of several folk stories and a play, opens up fantastical vistas in children''siterature while addressing environmental concerns like saving trees, conserving forests and keeping our world green and clean. With marvellous multilayered plots, this book transports young readers into a world full of gods, demons, princesses, sorcerers and also common people. These are tales of adventure, romance and good-natured humour. Daughter of the Kino Tree'' celebrates the victory ofove against hostile supernatural forces. In another tale, the eponymous Wind God ails with a strange sickness. In Gullava and theord of Rain'' the evil king Bhupathi gets all trees chopped to prevent theord of Rain from visiting Earth. Naturally, there is a calamity. The Tale of the Flower Queen'' is a play about a wood nymph who can transform into a tree. When the king of theand marries this Pushparani, his jealous senior queen plots to kill her. The fight between humans, who are bent on cutting a tree, and the animal world, which forms a protective ring around it, is a superb climax. The collection includes other fascinating stories too. Krishna Manavalli''s brilliant English translation brings the rich folk sensibility and a vibrant Kannada idiom to readers of the younger generation and to those young at heart.

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Book SynopsisHow to raise children to be moral, responsible, and productive citizens is one of the most debated issues in society today. In this elegantly written and passionate book, Vigen Guroian argues that our most beloved fairy tales and classic and contemporary fantasy stories written for children have enormous power to awaken the moral imagination.

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Book SynopsisCYNTHIA J. HALLETT is an independent scholar and was formerly Associate Professor of English and Foreign Languages at Bennett College for Women, North Carolina, USA. Her previous publications include Scholarly Studies in Harry Potter (2005). PEGGY J. HUEY is an Assistant Professor at Colorado Technical University Online, USA, and an Instructor for DeVry University Online, USA. She has taught at a number of colleges and universities in the USA and has published a range of articles on the Harry Potter books.Trade Review'I wanted this collection to be accessible but stretching, engaging but rigorous and to offer multiple entry points leading to lots of 'threads' for students to pursue. It offers all this and more. The variety of disciplines covered is simply extraordinary: it includes philosophy, religious studies, medicine and politics alongside the more obvious literary and cultural studies...Every essay, without exception is exquisitely written...collectively these essays inspire students to revisit the texts with new critical perspectives.' - THE Textbook GuideTable of ContentsList of Abbreviations Series Editor's Preface Notes on Contributors Introduction; C.Hallett Glorious Food? The Literary and Culinary Heritage of the Harry Potter Series; S.Harris A Fairy Tale Crew? J.K. Rowling's Characters Under Scrutiny; A.Klaus The Way of the Wizarding World: Harry Potter and the Magical Bildungsroman; R.T.Tally, Jr. Bewitching, Abject, Uncanny: Other Spaces in the Harry Potter Films; F.Pheasant-Kelly Free Will and Determinism: A 'Compatibilist' Reading of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter Series; C.M.Fouque Dumbledore's Ethos of Love in Harry Potter; L.Guanio-Uluru Harry Potter and the Origins of the Occult; E.McAvan Wizard's Justice and Elf Liberation: Politics and Political Activism in Harry Potter; M.Schulzke What It Means To Be A Half-Blood: Integrity Versus Fragmentation in Biracial Identity; T.Stockslager Magic, Medicine and Harry Potter; C.Partin Harry Potter and the Myriad Mothers: The Maternal Figure as Lioness, Witch and Wardrobe; R.Weaver & K.McMahon-Coleman 'I knew a girl once, whose hair…': Dumbledore and the Closet; J.Daems 'Neither can live while the other survives': Harry Potter and the Extratextual (After)life of J.K. Rowling; P.Ingleton Further Reading Index.

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Book SynopsisA close colleague of Tolkein for many years, Zettersten offers here a personally informed analysis of his fiction. In light of his unusual life experience and enthusiasm for the study of languages, Zettersten finds in Tolkein's fiction the same animating passions that drove that great author as a youth, a soldier, a linguist, and an Oxford Don.Trade Review"This is a remarkable book - part memoir, part biography, part literary appreciation. It offers a fascinating perspective on Tolkien s life, scholarship, and fiction by someone uniquely placed to understand and connect them. As a philologist of international standing, Zettersten presents valuable insights into Tolkien s academic career; he reminds us of the immense contributions Tolkien made to the study of medieval language and literature, and how his scholarly life intertwined and interacted with his imaginative fiction. The whole exposition is grounded in Zettersten s vivid recollections of his friendship with the ageing Tolkien in Oxford, and what emerges is a deeply affectionate, personal portrait of a master storyteller and his work." - Richard Dance, Senior Lecturer in Old English, University of Cambridge "Zettersten's new biography of Tolkien is specially enlivened by the author's personal knowledge of him as a man and a scholar, through meetings in Oxford between 1959 and 1972;a common knowledge of the Scandinavian languages so important to Tolkien in his experiments with invented languages; and an extraordinary coincidence of interest in the same particular medieval text. This scholarly affinity gives to Zettersten an insider's view of the fruitful connection between philological research and myth-based, language-rich fiction. The writing is personal, and conveys a deep affection for Tolkien and a perhaps unusual insight into his absorption, in his later years, while ostensibly talking to his friend about philology, in his mythical, yet 'real' worlds." - Derek Pearsall, Gurney Professor Emeritus, Harvard University "A fascinating personal perspective on one of the most creative authors of the twentieth century. Zettersten draws on recollections of his Oxford encounters with the aged Tolkien to portray a man obsessed with an inner world of fantasy that, for him, was almost as tactile as daily life. Well-written and intellectually stimulating, especially in regard to Tolkien s 'code switching' between different languages and realities." - John D. Niles, President, International Society of Anglo-Saxonists "Many have written about the life and works of J.R.R. Tolkien, but Zettersten's brilliant and enlightening book assesses Tolkien through the eyes of a fellow philologist. Both worked on the Middle English Ancrene Wisse, meeting frequently in the 60s and early 70s, Zettersten as a young scholar in his twenties and Tolkien after retirement. He calls their relationship 'some kind of father-son spirit or community of interests'. Zettersten brings to life the figure of Tolkien as a sympathetic colleague and congenial host, enthusiastic about ancient languages, gifted at creating private languages and an inspiring story-teller. Although it was historical philology which brought them together, Zettersten admirably demonstrates the close connection between Tolkien's philological research and his creative writing. Both are ardent 'word lovers' and what emerges as we read this book is that the words, or the invention of languages, create the vessel into which the fiction is poured - indeed the etymology of every word is a story. Altogether a stimulating, exciting and perceptive assessment of Tolkien's academic and fictional writing, and, above all, the values of friendship and loyalty which Tolkien held so dear." - Graham Caie, Vice Principal, University of GlasgowTable of ContentsForeword Our First Meeting Language Like Lightning from a Clear Sky Tolkien's Double Worlds Middle-earth From Bloemfontein to Birmingham From Sarehole to Shire An Orphan Drawn to Reading Student Life in Oxford Soldier at the Front Experience of War in Tolkien's Fiction Research as Motor Interlude at Leeds Interplay between Research and Fiction A Don on a Sidetrack The AB Language - A Unique Discovery Fantasy for Children and Adults The Final Years Facts and Fiction On the Truth of Myths The Reception of The Lord of the Rings in the World New Media Epilogue

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