Why Was Billy Bunter Never Really Expelled?: and another Twenty-Five Mysteries of Children's Literature
180Why Was Billy Bunter Never Really Expelled?: and another Twenty-Five Mysteries of Children's Literature
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ISBN-13: | 9780718895440 |
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Publisher: | The Lutterworth Press |
Publication date: | 09/28/2019 |
Pages: | 180 |
Product dimensions: | 6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.60(d) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations ix
Introduction xi
1 Should Children Read Fairy Tales? Dennis Butts 1
2 What Makes a Children's Classic? Peter Hunt 6
3 Why Were there no Nursery Rhymes before 1744? Tom Thumb's Pretty Song Book, Vol. II Dennis Butts 12
4 Who Wrote Little Goody Two-Shoes? Little Goody Two-Shoes (1765) Dennis Butts 18
5 What (and Where) Are the Secret, Lost Books of Childhood - and Why Do They Matter? Peter Hunt 23
6 The Curious History of Three Bears … and a Lamb 'Goldilocks and the Three Bears' and 'Mary had a Little Lamb' Dennis Butts 31
7 Charles Kingsley: Christian Socialist, Evangelical Storyteller, or Sexual Sadist? The Water-Babies (1863) Dennis Butts 35
8 Who Was the Real William Brighty Rands? Lilliput Levee (1864) Dennis Butts 40
9 Why Are there so many Dead Parents in Children's Books? Peter Hunt 46
10 Was Lorna Doone really Married? R.D. Blackmore, Lorna Doone (1869) Dennis Butts 52
11 Whatever Happened to God in Children's Books? From The History of the Fairchild Family to Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone Peter Hunt 56
12 Whose Side Was Henty really on in the American Civil War? G.A. Henty, With Lee in Virginia: A Story of the American Civil War (1895) Dennis Butts 63
13 What Do Children's Books Do about Christmas? Peter Hunt 68
14 Is Little Lord Fauntleroy a Children's Story - and Does the Subplot Work? Frances Hodgson Burnett, Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886) Dennis Butts 74
15 Why Was Billy Bunter never really Expelled from Greyfriars School? The Magnet (1908-40) Dennis Butts 79
16 Why on Earth Are there Children's Books about War? Peter Hunt 84
17 Biggies: Tough Guy or Romantic Hero? W.E. Johns, The Camels Are Coming (1932), Biggies Buries a Hatchet (1958), and Biggies Looks Back (1965) Dennis Butts 91
18 Why Is there Nobody Nice at St Clare's? Enid Blyton, The O'Sullivan Twins (1947) Peter Hunt 94
19 Were there Two Flutes? Time Present and Time Past at Green Knowe L.M. Boston, The Children of Green Knowe (1954) Dennis Butts 101
20 Why Does C.S. Lewis Annoy so many People? The Chronicles of Narnia (1950-6) Peter Hunt 106
21 What Happened Next? The Problem of Sequels Dennis Butts 114
22 To See Ourselves … What Image of the British Do Children's Books Give the World? Peter Hunt 120
23 Why Is there no such Thing as Children's Poetry? Ted Hughes and Michael Rosen Peter Hunt 128
24 Which Are the Best 100 Children's Books? Dennis Butts 135
25 And Which Is the Best? The Carnegie Medal and other Awards Peter Hunt 140
26 A Mystery Solved: How Adults Read Children's Books Peter Hunt 146
Notes 157
Index 163