Table of Contents

Alternate Table of Contents by Genre
Preface
"BOOK" by George Ella Lyon (b. 1949)
PART 1. TO TEACH OR TO ENTERTAIN?
C. S. Lewis (1898-1963):
"On Three Ways of Writing for Children"
Sheila Egoff (1918-2005):
"Precepts, Pleasures, and Portents: Changing Emphases in Children's Literature"
John Rowe Townsend (b. 1922):
"Didacticism in Modern Dress"
Aelfric (c. 955-c. 1010):
"Carius est nobis flagellari pro doctrina quam nescire"
Charles Perrault (1628-1703):
"Little Red Riding-Hood"
"The Master Cat, or Puss in Boots"
"Blue Beard"
Sarah Trimmer (1741-1810):
"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
Isaac Watts (1674-1748):
"Against Idleness and Mischief"
"The Sluggard"
"Obedience to Parents"
Robert Southey (1774-1843):
"The Old Man's Comforts and How He Gained Them"
Maria Edgeworth (1767-1849):
"The Purple Jar"
"The Birthday Present"
Jane Taylor (1783-1824):
"The Little Fisherman"
Jane Taylor (1783-1824) and Ann Taylor Gilbert (1782-1866):
Mary Botham Howitt (1799-1888):
"The Spider and the Fly"
Peter Parley (Samuel Griswold Goodrich, 1793-1860):
"The Pleasure Boat: or, The Broken Promise"
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-64):
From A Wonder Book for Boys and Girls
Tanglewood Play-Room
The Paradise of Children
Jacob Abbott (1803-79):
"Notice to Parents"
From Rollo Learning to Talk
Feeding the Chickens
The Dog in the Water
The Great Black Bear
Lewis Carroll (1832-98):
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
Louisa May Alcott (1832-88):
From Little Women
Chapter 8. Jo Meets Apollyon
Mark Twain (1835-1910):
From The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Chapter 12. Tom Shows His Generosity
Elizabeth Enright (1909-68):
From The Saturdays
Saturday Two
Beverly Cleary (b. 1916):
From Ramona the Pest
Chapter 1. Ramona's Great Day
Gary Paulsen (b. 1939):
From The Island
R. L. Stine (b. 1943):
From Be Careful What You Wish For . . .
Floyd Cooper (b. 1956):
Coming Home: From the Life of Langston Hughes:
Langston Hughes (1902-67):
"Aunt Sue's Stories"
"Mother to Son"
Lucille Clifton (b. 1936):
"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?
Alison Lurie (b. 1926):
"A Child's Garden of Subversion"
Marina Warner (b. 1946):
"Little Angels, Little Monsters: Keeping Childhood Innocent"
John Huddlestone Wynne (1743-88):
"Of the Danger of Pleasure"
William Wordsworth (1770-1850):
"Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood"
Jacob Grimm (1785-1863) and Wilhelm Grimm (1786-1859):
"The Frog King, or Iron Henry"
"Hansel and Gretel"
"Mother Holle"
Hans Christian Andersen (1805-75):
"The Emperor's New Clothes"
Heinrich Hoffmann (1809-94):
"The Sad Tale of the Match-Box"
Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907):
From The Story of a Bad Boy
Chapter 7. One Memorable Night
Chapter 8. The Adventures of a Fourth
L. M. Montgomery (1874-1942):
From Anne of Green Gables
Chapter 10. Anne's Apology
Astrid Lindgren (1907-2002):
From Pippi Longstocking
Chapter 3. Pippi Plays Tag with Some Policemen
Nina Mikkelsen (b. 1942):
"Insiders, Outsiders, and the Question of Authenticity: Who Shall Write for African American Children?"
Mette Newth (b. 1942):
From The Abduction
"On Writing The Abduction"
Gudrun Pausewang (b. 1928):
From The Final Journey
Libby Hathorn (b. 1943):
"Up Taree Way"
Further Recommended Reading
Mildred Taylor (b. 1943), Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
PART 3. ORAL AND WRITTEN LITERARY TRADITIONS
Ashanti Tribe (Africa):
"How Spider Obtained the Sky-God's Stories"
Anne Pellowski (b. 1933):
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
Kay F. Stone (b. 1939):
"Oral Narration in Contemporary North America"
Bruno Bettelheim (1903-90):
"Reflections: The Uses of Enchantment"
Maria Tatar (b. 1945):
"Reading Fairy Tales"
John Langstaff (1920-2005):
"The Oral Tradition: Alive, Alive-oh"
Iona Opie (b. 1923) and Peter Opie (1918-92):
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"
Kate Greenaway (1846-1901):
A Apple Pie:
Folk Song:
"The Tree in the Wood"
James Still (1906-2001):
From An Appalachian Mother Goose
Preface
"Pat-a-cake"
"Humpty Dumpty"
"Hey Diddle Diddle"
"Jack and Jill"
"The Man in the Moon"
Folk Song:
"A Frog Went A-Courting"
Edward Lear (1812-88):
"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"
Shel Silverstein, (1932-99):
"Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out"
"Zebra Question"
Jeanne Steig (b. 1930) and William Steig (1907-2003):
"Worrywart"
Grace Nichols (b. 1950):
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"
Shonto Begay (b. 1954):
From Navajo Visions and Voices Across the Mesa
"Creation"
"Grandmother"
"In My Mother's Kitchen"
Joseph Bruchac (b. 1942) and Gayle Ross (b. 1951):
The Story of the Milky Way: A Cherokee Tale:
Terri Cohlene (b. 1950):
Dancing Drum: A Cherokee Legend:
Ovid (43 B.C.E.-17 or 18 C.E.):
"The Story of Daedalus and Icarus"
Aesop's Fables:
"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"
Chinua Achebe (b. 1930):
"How Tortoise Cracked His Shell"
Peter Christen Asbjørnsen (1812-85):
"The Pancake"
African American Ballad:
"John Henry"
James Berry (b. 1926):
"Anancy and the Making of the Bro Title"
Diane Wolkstein (b. 1942):
From The Magic Orange Tree
Introduction
"The Magic Orange Tree"
"Mother of the Waters"
Angela Carter (1940-92):
"Vasilissa the Fair"
Rieko Okuhara (b. 1974):
"Hachi-kazuki-hime: The Princess Who Wore a Hachi"
Marie Le Prince de Beaumont (1711-80):
"Beauty and the Beast"
Jacob Grimm (1785-1863) and Wilhelm Grimm (1786-1859):
"Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs"
"Rapunzel"
"The Water of Life"
Ballad:
"Kemp Owyne (The Laidly Worm)"
Jane Yolen (b. 1939):
"The Brothers Grimm and Sister Jane"
Joseph Jacobs (1854-1916):
"Jack and the Beanstalk"
Appalachian Folktale:
"Munsmeg"
R. Rex Stephenson (b. 1943):
"Mutsmag"
Further Recommended Reading
Virginia Hamilton (1936-2002), The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales
PART 4. REALISM AND FANTASY
Elizabeth Segel (b. 1938):
"Realism and Children's Literature: Notes from a Historical Perspective"
C. W. Sullivan III (b. 1944):
"Fantasy"
Ursula K. Le Guin (b. 1929):
"Why Are Americans Afraid of Dragons?"
Perry Nodelman (b. 1945):
"Liking and Not Liking Fantasy"
Charles Dickens (1812-70):
From Hard Times
Chapter 1. The One Thing Needful
Chapter 2. Murdering the Innocents
Chapter 3. A Loophole
Carlo Lorenzini (Carlo Collodi) (1826-90):
From The Adventures of Pinocchio
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94):
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"
L. Frank Baum (1856-1919) and W.W. Denslow (1856-1915):
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
Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932):
From The Wind in the Willows
Chapter 2. The Open Road
Chapter 5. Dulce Domum
E. B. White (1889-1985):
From Charlotte's Web
Chapter 13. Good Progress
Chapter 14. Dr. Dorian
Philippa Pearce (b. 1920):
From Tom's Midnight Garden
Chapter 9. Hatty
Chapter 10. Games and Tales
Madeleine L'Engle (b. 1918):
From A Wrinkle in Time
Chapter 1. Mrs. Whatsit
Chapter 2. Mrs. Who
Chapter 3. Mrs. Which
Nikki Giovanni (b. 1943):
"knoxville, tennessee"
Gillian Rubinstein (b. 1942):
"Dolphin Dreaming"
Maya Angelou (b. 1928):
"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
Elizabeth Segel (b. 1938):
"'As the Twig Is Bent. . .': Gender and Childhood Reading"
Louise Bernikow (b. 1940):
"Cinderella: Saturday Afternoon at the Movies"
Charles Perrault (1628-1703):
"Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper"
Jacob Grimm (1785-1863) and Wilhelm Grimm (1786-1859):
"Ashputtle"
Micmac (Native American):
"The Indian Cinderella" retold by Cyrus Macmillan
Thomas Hughes (1822-96):
From Tom Brown's School Days
Chapter 5. Rugby and Football
Chapter 6. After the Match
Louisa May Alcott (1832-88):
From Little Women
Chapter 7. Amy's Valley of Humiliation
Chapter 9. Meg Goes to Vanity Fair
Chapter 34. Friend
Mark Twain (1835-1910):
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
William Dean Howells (1837-1920):
Review of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94):
From Treasure Island
Chapter 13. How My Shore Adventure Began
Chapter 14. The First Blow
Chapter 15. The Man of the Island
Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924):
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
Elizabeth Lennox Keyser (b. 1942):
"'Quite Contrary': Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden"
E. Vincent Millay (1892-1950):
"Friends"
L. M. Montgomery (1874-1942):
From Emily of New Moon
Chapter 29. Sacrilege
From Emily's Quest
Franklin W. Dixon:
"A Little Ghostly History" by Leslie McFarlane
From The Tower Treasure
Chapter 1. The Speed Demon
Chapter 2. The Stolen Roadster
Carolyn Keene:
"Keeping Nancy Drew Alive" by Sara Paretsky
From The Secret of the Old Clock
Chapter 1. The Lost Will
Isabelle Holland (1920-2002):
From The Man Without a Face
Katherine Paterson (b. 1932):
From Jacob Have I Loved
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (b. 1933):
From The Year of the Gopher
Christopher Paul Curtis (b. 1954):
From The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963
Chapter 3. The World's Greatest Dinosaur War Ever
Victor Martinez (b. 1949):
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
Perry Nodelman (b. 1942):
"The Relationship of Pictures and Words"
Maurice Sendak (b. 1928):
From Caldecott & Co.: Notes on Books & Pictures
"Winsor McCay"
"Randolph Caldecott"
Johan Amos Comenius (1592-1670):
"The Ship-wreck"
Thomas Bewick (1753-1828):
From A General History of Quadrupeds
From A History of British Birds, Volume I
From A History of British Birds, Volume II
Walter Crane (1845-1915):
"Rapunzel"
Randolph Caldecott (1846-86):
From Hey Diddle Diddle
From Three Jovial Huntsmen
Kate Greenaway (1846-1901):
From Under the Window
Beatrix Potter (1866-1943):
From The Roly-Poly Pudding
Wanda Gág (1893-1946):
From Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Clement Hurd (1908-88):
From The Runaway Bunny
Robert McCloskey (1914-2003):
From Blueberries for Sal
Garth Williams (1912-1996):
From Bedtime for Frances
From Charlotte's Web
Maurice Sendak (b. 1928):
"Hans My Hedgehog"
Mercer Mayer (b. 1943):
From Frog Goes to Dinner
Tom Feelings (1933-2003):
From Jambo Means Hello
Mitsumasa Anno (b. 1926):
From Anno's Alphabet: An Adventure in Imagination
Trina Schart Hyman (1939-2004 ):
From Jane, Wishing
Chris Van Allsburg (b. 1949):
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
Julaine Gillispie (b. 1975):
"American Film Adaptations of The Secret Garden: Reflections of Historical and Sociological Change"
Joe Winston (b. 1953):
"Revising the Fairy Tale Through Magic: Antonia Barber's The Enchanter's Daughter"
Antonia Barber (b. 1932):
The Enchanter's Daughter:
Fiona French (b. 1944):
Snow White in New York:
Jon C. Stott (b. 1939):
"'Will the Real Dragon Please Stand Up'? Convention and Parody in Children's Stories"
E. Nesbit (1858-1924):
"The Last of the Dragons"
Jack Prelutsky (b. 1940):
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"
Roald Dahl (1916-1990):
"Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf"
Vivian Vande Velde (b. 1951):
"Twins"
Sara Henderson Hay (1906-87):
"Juvenile Court"
Francesca Lia Block (b. 1962):
From Weetzie Bat
"Weetzie Wants a Baby"
Bruce Coville (b. 1950):
"Am I Blue?"
Ellen Seiter (b. 1957):
"Toy-Based Videos for Girls: My Little Pony"
Marina Warner (b. 1946):
"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
Mark I. West (b. 1955):
"Teaching Banned Children's Books"
Judy Blume (b. 1938):
From Forever
Hazel Rochman (b. 1938), Masha Kabakow Rudman (b. 1933), and Diane Stanley (b. 1943):
"Is That Book Politically Correct? Truth and Trends in Historical Literature for Young People"
Herbert R. Kohl (b. 1937):
"Should We Burn Babar? Questioning Power in Children's Literature"
Hans Christian Andersen (1805-75):
"The Little Mermaid"
A. Waller Hastings (b. 1952):
"Moral Simplification in Disney's The Little Mermaid"
Mark Twain (1835-1910):
From Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
E. L. Doctorow (b. 1931) and David Bradley (b. 1950):
"Huck, Continued"
May Justus (1898-1989):
New Boy in School:
Louise Fitzhugh (1928-74):
From Nobody's Family Is Going to Change
Katherine Paterson (b. 1932):
From The Great Gilly Hopkins
Harassing Miss Harris
Homecoming
"Hope and Happy Endings"
Lee Harding (b. 1937):
"Night of Passage"
Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867-1957):
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
Michael Dorris (1945-97):
"Trusting the Words"
Louise Erdrich (b. 1954):
From The Birchbark House
Chapter 1. The Birchbark House
Chapter 2. Old Tallow
Chapter 3. The Return
Jon Stott (b. 1939):
"Discovery and Recovery in Children's Novels by Native Writers"
Marilyn Nelson (b. 1946):
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