Cover -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Beowulf in and near Children's Literature -- 1 "A Little Shared Homer for England and the North": The First Beowulf for Young Readers -- 2 The Adaptational Character of the Earliest Beowulf for English Children: E.L. Hervey's "The Fight with the Ogre" -- 3 Tolkien, Beowulf, and Faërie: Adaptations for Readers Aged "Six to Sixty" -- 4 Treatments of Beowulf as a Source in Mid-Twentieth-Century Children's Literature -- 5 Visualizing Femininity in Children's and Illustrated Versions of Beowulf -- 6 What We See in the Grendel Cave: Manipulations of Perspective in Beowulf for Children -- 7 Beowulf, Bèi'àowǔfǔ, and the Social Hero -- 8 The Monsters and the Animals: Theriocentric Beowulfs -- 9 Children's Beowulfs for the New Tolkien Generation -- 10 The Practice of Adapting Beowulf for Younger Readers: A Conversation with Rebecca Barnhouse and James Rumford -- 11 Children's Versions of Beowulf: A Bibliography -- Index.