LITERARY CRITICISM / Children's & Young Adult Literature

How the Just So Stories Were Made

The Brilliance and Tragedy Behind Kipling’s Celebrated Tales for Little Children

by John Batchelor

Astrid Lindgren

The Woman Behind Pippi Longstocking

by Jens Andersen

Translated by Caroline Waight

Story Time

Essays on the Betsy Beinecke Shirley Collection of American Children's Literature

Epilogue by Timothy Young

Contributions by Brian Alderson, Jill Campbell, Beverly Lyon Clark, JoAnn Conrad, Elizabeth Frengel, Patrick Kiley, Heather Klemann, Gregory Maguire, Leonard Marcus, Sandra Markham, Michelle Martin, Katie Trumpener, Laura E. Wasowicz, Pádraic Whyte and Timothy Young

Hans Christian Andersen

European Witness

by Paul Binding

Fairy Tale Fashion

by Colleen Hill, Patricia Mears, Ellen Sampson and Kiera Vaclavik

J.M. Barrie and the Lost Boys

The Real Story Behind Peter Pan

by Andrew Birkin