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Traces the changes in international children's literature and literature theory over the last few decades.

Table of Contents

Introduction Renewing Stories of Childhood: Children's Literature as a Creative Art by Rosemary Johnstone When Everything Old is New Again: Aboriginal Tests and the Politics of Renewal by Clare Bradford Space and Race in Contemporary South African English Your Literature by Judith A. Inggs Exploring Otherness: Cheantes in the Child-Animal Metamorphosis Motif by Maria Lassén-Seger A Happy Blend of Universality and Novelty: "Julie of the Wolves" and "A Ring of Endless Light as Stories Crossing the Animal-human Boundary by Darja Mazi-Leskovar Me, Myself, and Him - The Changing Face of Female Cross-dressing in Contemporary Children's Literature by Victoria Flanagan Voyeruism and Power: Change and Renewal of the Eroticized Figure in Australian Books for Teenagers by Margot Hillel Fostering Controlled Dissent: Democratic Values and Children's Literature by Eva-Maria Metcalf Childhood as the Sign of Change: Hans Christian Anderson's Retellings of the Concept of Childhood in the Light of Romanticism, Modernism, and Children's Own Cultures by Helene Høyrup Continuity and Change in the Fantasy Tale - with a Focus on Recent Danish Works by Anna Karlskov Skyggebjerg Blytons, Noddies and Denoddification Centres: The Changing Constructions of a Cultural Icon by David Rudd Changing Perspectives: Tarzan Recalled and Retold at the Turn of the Millennium by Rolf Romören Spell-binding Dahl: Considering Roald Dahl's Fantasy by Eileen Donaldson "Never Lonely, Always on the Go": The Merry-go-round as Kinetic Metonym, in Text and Illustration, in Tove Jansson's Short Story, "The Hemulen Who Loved Silence" by Sirke Happonen The Beginning of All Poetry: Some Observations about Lullabies from Oral Traditions by Anne de Vries Change and Renewal: Translating the Visual in Picture Books by Riitta Oittinen Change and Renewal of a Famous German Classic by Klaus Doderer Too Many Elephants? Endangered Discourses in the Field of Children's Literature by Nancy Huse Index

About the Author

THOMAS VAN DER WALT is Senior Lecturer, Department of Information Science at the University of South Africa.