List of Contributors List of Boxes List of Illustrations Introduction: Making the Most of Modern Children's Literature: An Introduction; K.Reynolds Theories of Genre and Gender: Change and Continuity in the School Story; P.Pinsent Sociology, Politics, the Family: Children and Families in Anglo-American Children'sFiction 1920-1960; K.Reynolds Fantasy, Psychology and Feminism: Jungian Readings of Classic British Fantasy Fiction; S.Hancock Autobiography and History: Literature of War; G.Lathey Comparative and Psychoanalytic Approaches: Personal History and Collective Memory; G.Lathey Fantasy - Postwar, Postmodern, Postcolonial: Houses in Post-War Fantasy; S.Godek Feminism and History: Historical Fiction: Not Just a Thing of the Past; P.Bramwell Childhood, Youth Culture and the Uncanny: Uncanny Nights in Contemporary Adolescent Fiction; L.Sainsbury Fantasy, Psychoanalysis and Adolescence: Magic and Maturation in Fantasy; P.Bramwell Bakhtin, Dialogism and Chronotopes: Time and Memory in Contemporary Children's Literature; L. Sainsbury Postmodernism, New Historicism and Migration: New Historical Novels; P.Pinsent Language, Genres and Issues: The Socially Committed Novel; P.Pinsent Reading Contemporary Picture Books; J.Graham Picturebook Case Study: Politics and Philosophy in the Work of Raymond Briggs; L.Sainsbury Electronic Texts and Adolescent Agency: Computers and the Internet in Contemporary Children's Literature; N.Applebaum Bibliography Index