Table of Contents
Introduction Mike Cadden vii
Part 1 Genre Templates and Transformations
1 Telling Old Tales Newly: Intertextuality in Young Adult Fiction for Girls Elisabeth Rose Gruner 3
2 Familiarity Breeds a Following: Transcending the Formulaic in the Snicket Series Danielle Russell 22
3 The Power of Secrets: Backwards Construction and the Children's Detective Story Chris Mcgee 44
Part 2 Approaches to the Picture Book
4 Focalization in Children's Picture Books: Who Sees in Words and Pictures? Angela Yannicopoulou 65
5 No Consonance, No Consolation: John Burningham's: Time to Get Out of the Bath, Shirley Magdalena Sikorska 86
6 Telling the Story, Breaking the Boundaries: Metafiction and the Enhancement of Children's Literary Development in The Bravest Ever Bear and The Story of the Falling Star Alexandra Lewis 100
7 Perceiving The Red Tree: Narrative Repair, Writerly Metaphor, and Sensible Anarchy Andrea Schwenke Wyile 120
8 Now Playing: Silent Cinema and Picture-Book Montage Nathalie Op De Beeck 140
Part 3 Narrators and Implied Readers
9 Uncle Tom Melodrama with a Modern Point of View: Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird Holly Blackford 165
10 The Identification Fallacy: Perspective and Subjectivity in Children's Literature Maria Nikolajeva 187
11 The Development of Hebrew Children's Literature: From Men Pulling Children Along to Women Meeting Them Where They Are Dana Keren-Yaar 209
Part 4 Narrative Time
12 Shifting Worlds: Constructing the Subject, Narrative, and History in Historical Time Shifts Susan Stewart 231
13 "Whose Woods These Are I Think I Know": Narrative Theory and Diana Wynne Jones's Hexwood Martha Hixon 251
14 "Time No Longer": The Context(s) of Time in Tom's Midnight Garden Angelika Zirker 268
Further Reading 293
Contributors 303
Index 307