Books by Janet Maybin

JANET MAYBIN is Senior Lecturer in Language and Communication at The Open University, UK. She researches and writes on children's informal language and literacy practices and creativity in language. Recent publications include Children's Voices: Talk, Knowledge and Identity and Using English.

NICOLA J. WATSON is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at The Open University. Her research over the last fifteen years has focussed upon the reception, adaptation, transformation, and consumption of historical and literary narratives. Her publications include Revolution and the Form of the British Novel, 1790-1825, England's Elizabeth: An Afterlife in Fame and Fantasy (with Michael Dobson) and The Literary Tourist.