Crosscurrents of Children's Literature
An Anthology of Texts and Criticism
ISBN13: 9780195134933ISBN10: 0195134931
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1080 pages
Oct 2006,
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Alternate Table of Contents by Genre
Preface
"BOOK" by George Ella Lyon (b. 1949)
PART 1. TO TEACH OR TO ENTERTAIN?
"On Three Ways of Writing for Children"
"Precepts, Pleasures, and Portents: Changing Emphases in Children's Literature"
"Didacticism in Modern Dress"
"Carius est nobis flagellari pro doctrina quam nescire"
"Little Red Riding-Hood"
"The Master Cat, or Puss in Boots"
"Blue Beard"
"On the Care Which Is Requisite in the Choice of Books for Children"
Review of The History of Little Goody Two Shoes
Review of Nursery Tales
"Against Idleness and Mischief"
"The Sluggard"
"Obedience to Parents"
"The Old Man's Comforts and How He Gained Them"
"The Purple Jar"
"The Birthday Present"
"The Little Fisherman"
"The Spider and the Fly"
"The Pleasure Boat: or, The Broken Promise"
From A Wonder Book for Boys and Girls
Tanglewood Play-Room
The Paradise of Children
"Notice to Parents"
From Rollo Learning to Talk
Feeding the Chickens
The Dog in the Water
The Great Black Bear
From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Chapter 1. Down the Rabbit-Hole
Chapter 2. The Pool of Tears
Chapter 5. Advice from a Caterpillar
Chapter 10. The Lobster Quadrille
From
Chapter 12. Alice's Evidence
From Through the Looking Glass
Chapter 4. Tweedledum and Tweedledee
From Little Women
Chapter 8. Jo Meets Apollyon
From The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Chapter 12. Tom Shows His Generosity
From The Saturdays
Saturday Two
From Ramona the Pest
Chapter 1. Ramona's Great Day
From The Island
From Be Careful What You Wish For . . .
"Aunt Sue's Stories"
"Mother to Son"
"Elevator"
"Under the Rainbow"
Further Recommended Reading
C.S. Lewis (1898-1963), The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Louise Fitzhugh (1928-74), Harriet the Spy
PART 2. SUBJECTION OF THE CHILD OR SUBVERSION OF ADULT AUTHORITY?
"A Child's Garden of Subversion"
"Little Angels, Little Monsters: Keeping Childhood Innocent"
"Of the Danger of Pleasure"
"Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood"
"The Frog King, or Iron Henry"
"Hansel and Gretel"
"Mother Holle"
"The Emperor's New Clothes"
"The Sad Tale of the Match-Box"
From The Story of a Bad Boy
Chapter 7. One Memorable Night
Chapter 8. The Adventures of a Fourth
From Anne of Green Gables
Chapter 10. Anne's Apology
From Pippi Longstocking
Chapter 3. Pippi Plays Tag with Some Policemen
"Insiders, Outsiders, and the Question of Authenticity: Who Shall Write for African American Children?"
From The Abduction
"On Writing The Abduction
"
From The Final Journey
"Up Taree Way"
Further Recommended Reading
Mildred Taylor (b. 1943), Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
PART 3. ORAL AND WRITTEN LITERARY TRADITIONS
"How Spider Obtained the Sky-God's Stories"
From The World of Storytelling
Chapter 1. History and Definition of Storytelling
Chapter 4. Folk Storytelling
Chapter 15. Visuality, Orality, Literacy: Their Meaning in Relation to Storytelling for Entertainment, Education, and Health
"Oral Narration in Contemporary North America"
"Reflections: The Uses of Enchantment"
"Reading Fairy Tales"
"The Oral Tradition: Alive, Alive-oh"
From The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes
"Pat-a-cake"
"One, Two, Buckle My Shoe"
"Thirty Days Hath September"
"Hey Diddle Diddle"
"Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary"
"Sing a Song of Sixpence"
"Jack and Jill"
"Ladybird, Ladybird"
"London Bridge"
"Mary Had a Little Lamb"
"There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe"
"Three Blind Mice"
"Little Jack Horner"
"Little Boy Blue"
"I See the Moon"
"The House that Jack Built"
"Humpty Dumpty"
"In Marble Halls"
"Little Miss Muffet"
"As I Was Going to St. Ives"
"Wee Willie Winkie"
"The Tree in the Wood"
From An Appalachian Mother Goose
Preface
"Pat-a-cake"
"Humpty Dumpty"
"Hey Diddle Diddle"
"Jack and Jill"
"The Man in the Moon"
"A Frog Went A-Courting"
"The Owl and the Pussy-cat"
"The Broom, the Shovel, the Poker, and the Tongs"
"There Was an Old Man with a Beard"
"There Was an Old Man of Bohemia"
"There Was a Young Lady Whose Nose"
"Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out"
"Zebra Question"
"Worrywart"
From Come On into My Tropical Garden
"Poor Grandma"
"Riddle"
"Wha Me Mudder Do"
"I Like to Stay Up"
"Moon-Gazer"
"The Sun"
"They Were My People"
"Sky"
"I Am the Rain"
"Sea Timeless Song"
From Navajo Visions and Voices Across the Mesa
"Creation"
"Grandmother"
"In My Mother's Kitchen"
"The Story of Daedalus and Icarus"
"The Bear and the Two Travelers"
"The Cat and the Venus"
"The Crow and the Pitcher"
"The Fox and the Goat"
"The Fox and the Grapes"
"The Hare and the Tortoise"
"The Hen and the Golden Eggs"
"Hercules and the Wagoner"
"The Lion and the Mouse"
"Mercury and the Workmen"
"The Milk-Woman and Her Pail"
"The Mouse, the Frog, and the Hawk"
"The North Wind and the Sun"
"The Oak and the Reeds"
"The Shepherd's Boy and the Wolf"
"The Tortoise and the Eagle"
"The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse"
"The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing"
"How Tortoise Cracked His Shell"
"The Pancake"
"John Henry"
"Anancy and the Making of the Bro Title"
From The Magic Orange Tree
Introduction
"The Magic Orange Tree"
"Mother of the Waters"
"Vasilissa the Fair"
"Hachi-kazuki-hime: The Princess Who Wore a Hachi"
"Beauty and the Beast"
"Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs"
"Rapunzel"
"The Water of Life"
"Kemp Owyne (The Laidly Worm)"
"The Brothers Grimm and Sister Jane"
"Jack and the Beanstalk"
"Munsmeg"
"Mutsmag"
Further Recommended Reading
Virginia Hamilton (1936-2002), The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales
PART 4. REALISM AND FANTASY
"Realism and Children's Literature: Notes from a Historical Perspective"
"Fantasy"
"Why Are Americans Afraid of Dragons?"
"Liking and Not Liking Fantasy"
From Hard Times
Chapter 1. The One Thing Needful
Chapter 2. Murdering the Innocents
Chapter 3. A Loophole
From The Adventures of Pinocchio
From A Child's Garden of Verses
"The Land of Counterpane"
"My Shadow"
"Foreign Children"
"Foreign Lands"
"The Unseen Playmate"
"My Kingdom"
"The Land of Story-Books"
"The Flowers"
"The Dumb Soldier"
From Father Goose, His Book
From The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Introduction
Chapter 3. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow
Chapter 5. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman
From The Wind in the Willows
Chapter 2. The Open Road
Chapter 5. Dulce Domum
From Charlotte's Web
Chapter 13. Good Progress
Chapter 14. Dr. Dorian
From Tom's Midnight Garden
Chapter 9. Hatty
Chapter 10. Games and Tales
From A Wrinkle in Time
Chapter 1. Mrs. Whatsit
Chapter 2. Mrs. Who
Chapter 3. Mrs. Which
"knoxville, tennessee"
"Dolphin Dreaming"
"I Love the Look of Words"
Further Recommended Reading
Ted Hughes (1930-98), The Iron Giant
Virginia Hamilton (1936-2002), Zeely
Katherine Paterson (b. 1932), Bridge to Terabithia
Monica Hughes (1925-2003), The Keeper of the Isis Light
Lois Lowry (b. 1937), The Giver
PART 5. BOY'S BOOKS AND GIRL'S BOOKS: GENDER ISSUES
"'As the Twig Is Bent. . .': Gender and Childhood Reading"
"Cinderella: Saturday Afternoon at the Movies"
"Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper"
"Ashputtle"
"The Indian Cinderella" retold by Cyrus Macmillan
From Tom Brown's School Days
Chapter 5. Rugby and Football
Chapter 6. After the Match
From Little Women
Chapter 7. Amy's Valley of Humiliation
Chapter 9. Meg Goes to Vanity Fair
Chapter 34. Friend
From The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Chapter 6. Self-Examination--Dentistry--The Midnight Charm--Witches and Devils--Cautious Approaches--Happy Hours
Chapter 20. Becky in a Dilemma--Tom's Nobility Asserts Itself
Review of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
From Treasure Island
Chapter 13. How My Shore Adventure Began
Chapter 14. The First Blow
Chapter 15. The Man of the Island
From The Secret Garden
Chapter 1. There Is No One Left
Chapter 2. Mistress Mary Quite Contrary
Chapter 3. Across the Moor
Chapter 4. Martha
Chapter 27. In the Garden
"'Quite Contrary': Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden
"
"Friends"
From Emily of New Moon
Chapter 29. Sacrilege
From Emily's Quest
"A Little Ghostly History" by Leslie McFarlane
From The Tower Treasure
Chapter 1. The Speed Demon
Chapter 2. The Stolen Roadster
"Keeping Nancy Drew Alive" by Sara Paretsky
From The Secret of the Old Clock
Chapter 1. The Lost Will
From The Man Without a Face
From Jacob Have I Loved
From The Year of the Gopher
From The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963
Chapter 3. The World's Greatest Dinosaur War Ever
From Parrot in the Oven: mi vida
Chapter 7. The Boxing Match
Further Recommended Reading
Mildred Taylor (b. 1943), The Road to Memphis
PART 6. WORDS AND PICTURES
"The Relationship of Pictures and Words"
From Caldecott & Co.: Notes on Books & Pictures
"Winsor McCay"
"Randolph Caldecott"
"The Ship-wreck"
From A General History of Quadrupeds
From A History of British Birds, Volume I
From A History of British Birds, Volume II
"Rapunzel"
From Hey Diddle Diddle
From Three Jovial Huntsmen
From Under the Window
From The Roly-Poly Pudding
From Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
From The Runaway Bunny
From Blueberries for Sal
From Bedtime for Frances
From Charlotte's Web
"Hans My Hedgehog"
From Frog Goes to Dinner
From Jambo Means Hello
From Anno's Alphabet: An Adventure in Imagination
From Jane, Wishing
From The Z Was Zapped: A Play in Twenty-Six Acts
Further Recommended Reading
Beatrix Potter (1866-1943), The Tale of Peter Rabbit
Maurice Sendak (b. 1928), Where the Wild Things Are
PART 7. SATIRES AND SPIN-OFFS: REWORKING CLASSIC CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
"American Film Adaptations of The Secret Garden
: Reflections of Historical and Sociological Change"
"Revising the Fairy Tale Through Magic: Antonia Barber's The Enchanter's Daughter
"
"'Will the Real Dragon Please Stand Up'? Convention and Parody in Children's Stories"
"The Last of the Dragons"
From The Dragons are Singing Tonight
"A Dragon's Lament"
"My Dragon's Been Disconsolate"
"My Dragon Wasn't Feeling Good"
"Dragonbrag"
"I Have a Secret Dragon"
"If You Don't Believe in Dragons"
"Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf"
"Twins"
"Juvenile Court"
From Weetzie Bat
"Weetzie Wants a Baby"
"Am I Blue?"
"Toy-Based Videos for Girls: My Little Pony
"
"Boys Will be Boys: The Making of the Male"
Further Recommended Reading
Priscilla Galloway (b. 1930), Truly Grim Tales
Jane Yolen (b. 1939), Briar Rose
PART 8. VALUES AND CENSORSHIP
"Teaching Banned Children's Books"
From Forever
"Is That Book Politically Correct? Truth and Trends in Historical Literature for Young People"
"Should We Burn Babar?
Questioning Power in Children's Literature"
"The Little Mermaid"
"Moral Simplification in Disney's The Little Mermaid
"
From Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
"Huck, Continued"
From Nobody's Family Is Going to Change
From The Great Gilly Hopkins
Harassing Miss Harris
Homecoming
"Hope and Happy Endings"
"Night of Passage"
From Little House on the Prairie
Chapter 11. Indians in the House
Chapter 21. Indian Jamboree
Chapter 23. Indian War-Cry
Chapter 24. Indians Ride Away
"Trusting the Words"
From The Birchbark House
Chapter 1. The Birchbark House
Chapter 2. Old Tallow
Chapter 3. The Return
"Discovery and Recovery in Children's Novels by Native Writers"
From A Wreath for Emmett Till
Further Recommended Reading
Paula Fox (b. 1923), The Slave Dancer
E. L. Konigsburg (b. 1930), The View from Saturday
Selected Bibliography: History and Criticism of Children's Literature
Timeline of Children's Literature
Credits
Index
