Table of Contents

Polly Toynbee: Preface
Acknowledgements
Kimberley Reynolds, Jane Rosen, Michael Rosen: Introduction
Part 1: Stories for young socialists
Alexander Gossip: 'King Midas' published in The Young Socialist (1902)
F.J. Gould: From 'The Coal Cargo' in Pages for Young Socialists (1913)
'Tom Fool' [Eleanor Farjeon]: 'Greed the Guy' from Tomfooleries (1920) and 'The First of May' from Moonshine (1921)
Alex Wedding: 'The Story of the Island of Fish' from Eddie and the Gipsy (1935)
F. le Gros and Ida Clark: From Adventures of the Little Pig and other stories (1936)
Fielden Hughes: From Hue and Cry (1956)
Mickey the Mongrel, the class conscious dog No. 2, 'Whitewash' (Daily Worker 3 January, 1930)
Part 2: The war against war
Harry Golding: From War in Dollyland (1915)
Tom Anderson: 'Don't Shoot Your Class!' from The Revolution (1918)
Helen Zenna Smith: From Not So Quiet: Stepdaughters of War (1930)
Anon: 'A Life with a Purpose - or a grave in Malaya' from Challenge (1949)
Ed McCurdy: 'Last Night I had the Strangest Dream' (1950)
Part 3: Writing and revolution
Hermynia Zur Muhlen: 'Little Peter' from Proletcult (1.9, 1922)
T. H. Wintringham: 'Steel Spokes' from Martin's Annual (1931)
The Red Corner Book for Children, title page, frontispiece and miscellaneous items (1931)
Geoffrey Trease: 'The People Speak' from Bows Against the Barons (1934)
Valentin Katayev: 'Lower Ranks' from A White Sail Gleams (1936)
L. Gombrich: 'How Till Bought Land in Luneburg' from The Amazing Pranks of Master Till Eulenspiegel (1936)
Barbara Niven and Ern Brook: 'Little Tusker's Own Paper,' Daily Worker (1945)
Mickey the Mongrel, the class conscious dog No. 7, 'Selling' (Daily Worker 11 January, 1930)
Part 4: Of Russia with love
Nikolai Ognyov: From The Diary of a Communist Schoolboy (1928)
Geoffrey Trease: 'A New Kind of Park' from Red Comet (1937)
Kornei Chukovsky: Wash 'Em Clean (1923)
Vladimir Mayakovsky: What is Good and What is Bad (1925)
A. Gaidar: From Timur and his Comrades (1943)
N. Nosov: 'The Telephone' from Jolly Family (1950)
Part 5: Examples from life
Gerard Shelley: 'Safar the Hero' from Folk Tales of the Peoples of the Soviet Union (1945)
Jennie Lee: Extracts from Tomorrow is a New Day: A Youth Edition (1945)
Olive Dehn: Come In (1946)
'The First Labour M.P.'; 'Hunger Strike Heroine'; 'In Great-Great-Great Grandfather's Day: A historian tells the story of the 'Battle of Peterloo'' from Daily Worker Children's Annual (1957)
Arnold Kettle: Karl Marx: Founder of Modern Communism (1963)
Mickey the Mongrel, the class conscious dog No. 14, 'Bertram Bulldog' (Daily Worker 18 January, 1930)
Part 6: Performing leftness
J.H. Bingham: The World's May Day: A Celebration (1924)
Alan Lomax: From The Big Rock Candy Mountain (1955)
Alan Gifford: Selected 'Songs of Struggle' from If I had a Song: a song book for children growing up (1954)
Songs for Elfins (selected songs, c. 1950)
Part 7: Fighting fascism
T. P./Anon: 'Side-light on the Blackshirts' and 'Fight War and Fascism' from Out of Bounds: Public Schools' Journal against Fascism, Militarism and Reaction (1934)
Michael Davidson: 'Red Front' from Martin's Annual (1935)
Anon: 'Blacking His Shirt' from Martin's Annual (1935)
Esme Cartmell: Extracts from 'I For Influenza' from Rescue in Ravensdale (1946)
Mickey the Mongrel, the class conscious dog No. 46, 'Lionel Lapdog' (Daily Worker 27 February, 1930)
Part 8: Science and social transformation
Margaret MacMillan: 'The Child of the Future' from The Young Socialist (1913)
E. F. Stucley: 'The Beginning of Trade' from Pollycon (1933)
Eleanor Doorly: 'Whatever Happens' from The Radium Woman (1937)
M Ilin: 'The Fate of Books' from Black on White (1942)
Peggy Hart: Extracts from The Magic of Coal (1945)
Lancelot Hogben: Extracts from 'Numbers and Nothing' from Man Must Measure (1955)
Part 9: Sex for beginners
Margaret Dobson (pen-name of Tom Anderson): From 'Sex Knowledge' in Proletcult (1923)
Amabel Williams-Ellis: Extracts from How You Began (1928)
Phyllis Baker / Giles Romilly: 'Hero-Worship Adrift: Film-Star Hero or Games Mistress?' and 'Morning Glory (Sex in Public Schools)' from Out of Bounds: Public Schools' Journal against Fascism, Militarism and Reaction (1934)
Winifred Cullis and Evelyn Hewer: Extracts from 'Physiology' from An Outline for Boys and Girls and Their Parents (1932)
Mickey the Mongrel, the class conscious dog 335, 'Air Display' (Daily Worker 1 January, 1932)
Part 10: Visions of the future
E. Nesbit: 'The Sorry Present and the Expelled Little Boy' from The Story of the Amulet (1906)
M. Ilin: Extracts from New Russia's Primer: Story of the Five-Year Plan (1931)
Olaf Stapledon: Extracts from 'Problems and Solutions' in Naomi Mitchison, ed. extracts from An Outline for Boys and Girls and Their Parents (1932)
Erich Kästner: 'Danger! High Tension!' from The 35th of May, or Conrad's Ride to the South Seas (1933)
S. R. Badmin: Extracts from Village and Town (1942)
Mickey the Mongrel, the class conscious dog (unnumbered final Mickey the Mongrel cartoon, Daily Worker 1 January, 1932)
Works cited
Index

About the Author

Kimberley Reynolds is the Professor of Children's Literature in the School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics at Newcastle University in the UK. She has served on the boards of a number of national and international organisations, is a Past President of the International Research Society for Children's Literature, and was the first Senior Honorary Research Fellow at the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions at the University of Western
Australia. She has lectured and published widely on a variety of aspects of children's literature. Her monograph, Radical Children's Literature: Future Visions and Aesthetic Transformations (2007)
received the Children's Book Award for 2009. In 2013 she received the International Brothers Grimm Award for scholarly contributions to the field of children's literature studies. Jane Rosen is a Librarian who works in Special Libraries. She is currently employed in a national museum. Her research interests include radical and working-class children's literature and education, and she has presented papers on the subject at several international conferences. She has also published reviews and
articles in a variety of publications including an essay on The Young Socialist in Little Red Readings: Historical Materialist Perspectives on Children's Literature (2014). Michael Rosen is the Professor
of Children's Literature at Goldsmiths, University of London. He has been teaching children's literature on MA courses since 1993 at University of North London/London Metropolitan University and Birkbeck, prior to his tenure at Goldsmiths. Since 1974 he has published over 150 books for children (poetry, picture book texts, fiction, non-fiction), including We're Going on a Bear Hunt (illustrated by Helen Oxenbury), The Sad Book (illustrated by Quentin Blake), and Quick
Let's Get Out of Here (illustrated by Quentin Blake). His books for adults include Alphabetical, how every letter tells a story (John Murray) and The Disappearance of Emile Zola: Love, Literature and the Dreyfus Case (Faber and
Faber). He has been broadcasting on BBC World Service and Radio 4 and 3 since 1987, and hosts BBC Radio 4's 'Word of Mouth'. He writes a monthly column in Guardian Education, a column in the New Humanist, and is poet-in-residence on 'The Teacher'.

Reviews

As an addition to the history of children's literature, Reading and Rebellion is both nuanced and intriguing.
*Imogen Russell Williams, The Times Literary Supplement*

Doing Reading and Rebellion justice in a thousand words is impossible...s, I was deeply impressed by Reading and Rebellion and learned a great deal from it. The book will surely endure as an indispensable reference for anyone interested in radical political cultures and childhood in the UK and beyond. And if we are lucky it will inspire even more collections of radical children's literature from other parts of the world.
*Julia Mickenberg, The University of Texas at Austin, International Research in Children's Literature*

For a very modest £25 you get a huge amount of material: over 150 pages of history and commentary on a seriously neglected period, which alone would make the book worthwhile ... An impressive project, very well done. Buy it. You won't be disappointed.
*Peter Hunt, Children's Books History Society*

The perfect read for a New Year and a new generation who more than anyone else will help ensure a future where peace and goodwill is more than a seasonal marketing gimmick but instead at the core of human existence.
*Mark Perryman, Philosophy Football*

This anthology is a joy to read. Its richness and variety reminds me of Inside the Rainbow (Redstone Press, 2013), the astonishing collection of Russian children's illustrations from 1920-1935, but whereas that focused on one country and one short period of time, Reading and Rebellion casts its net wider in both time and space. The familiar (to me, at least: Im not sure how much Geoffrey Trease is read these days) and the (to me, at least) completely unknown, such as Micky Mongrel, the class conscious dog, a cartoon from the Daily Worker, sit happily side by side with stories, advice, history, information, moral homilies, fairy tales, and every conceivable kind of writing from a left-wing perspective. Given the stultifyingly conservative narrowness of the vast majority of the children's literature that's all most of us know, this is a fresh wind, and I enjoyed it enormously.
*Philip Pullman*