Reviews 2009

Stories, Pictures & Reality: Two children tell., by Virgina Lowe. Review by Arundhati Deosthale.
Novi val nedolžnosti v otroški literaturi: kaj sporočata Harry Potter in Lyra Srebrousta? [A New Wave of Innocence in Children’s Literature: Conservative backlash and the significance of Harry Potter and Lyra Silvermouth] by Lilijana Burcar. Review by Neva Šlibar
The Fantasy of Family: Nineteenth-Century Children’s Literature and the Myth of the Domestic Ideal. Elizabeth Thiel. Review by Björn Sundmark
The Family in English Children’s Literature by Ann Alston. Review by Helma van Lierop-Debrauwer
Twain, Alcott, and the Birth of the Adolescent Reform Novel by Roberta Seelinger Trites. Review by Roxanne Harde
The Story and the Self. Children’s Literature: Some Psychoanalytic Perspectives edited by Jenny Plastow. Review by Anto Thomas
Enterprising Youth: Social Values and Acculturation in Nineteenth-Century Children’s Literature. Edited by Monika Elbert. Review by Sandra Burr
Divided Worlds: Studies in Children’s Literature. Edited by Mary Shine Thompson and Valerie Coghlan. Review by Jane Suzanne Carroll
Reader Development in Practice: Bringing literature to readers. Edited by Susan Hornby and Bob Glass. Review by Gillian Lathey
A Victorian Quartet: Four Forgotten Women Writers. Liz Thiel, Elaine Lomax, Bridget Carrington and Mary Sebag-Montefiore. Review by Andrea Peterson
The Story and the Self. Children’s Literature: Some Psychoanalytic Perspectives. Edited by Jenny Plastow. Review by Jennifer Sattaur
Astrid Lindgren – Werk und Wirkung. Internationale und interkulturelle Aspekte. [Astrid Lindgren – Works and Effects. International and intercultural aspects.] Edited by Svenja Blume, Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer and Angelika Nix. Review by Sara Van den Bossche
Death, Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Adolescent Literature. Kathryn James. Review by Lydia Kokkola
Fantasy, Myth and the Measure of Truth: Tales of Pullman, Lewis, Tolkien, MacDonald and Hoffmann. William Gray. Review by Lydia Kokkola
Home Words: Discourses of Children’s Literature in Canada. Edited by Mavis Reimer. Review by Marek Oziewicz
Contemporary Fiction and the Fairy Tale. Edited by Stephen Benson. Review by Michelle Ryan-Sautour
Owner of the means of instruction? Children’s Literature: some Marxist perspectives. Edited by Jenny Plastow. Review by Ulf Schöne

Facets of Children’s Literature Research: Collected and Revised Writings

Barnlitteraturanalyser [Analyses of Children’s Literature]. Edited by Maria Andersson and Elina Druker. Review by B.J. Epstein