Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Part One: Genre Templates and Transformations -- 1. Telling Old Tales Newly: Intertextuality in Young Adult Fiction for Girls -- 2. Familiarity Breeds a Following: Transcending the Formulaicin the Snicket Series -- 3. The Power of Secrets: Backwards Construction and the Children's Detective Story -- Part Two: Approaches to the Picture Book -- 4. Focalization in Children's Picture Books: Who Sees in Words and Pictures? -- 5. No Consonance, No Consolation: John Burningham's Time to Get Out of the Bath, Shirley -- 6. Telling the Story, Breaking the Boundaries: Metafiction and the Enhancement of Children's Literary Development inThe Bravest Ever Bear and The Story of the Falling Star -- 7. Perceiving The Red Tree: Narrative Repair, Writerly Metaphor, and Sensible Anarchy -- 8. Now Playing: Silent Cinema and Picture-Book Montage -- Part Three: Narrators and Implied Readers -- 9. Uncle Tom Melodrama with a Modern Point of View: Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird -- 10. The Identification Fallacy: Perspective and Subjectivity in Children's Literature -- 11. The Development of Hebrew Children's Literature: From Men Pulling Children Along to Women Meeting Them Where They Are -- Part Four: Narrative Time -- 12. Shifting Worlds: Constructing the Subject, Narrative, and History in Historical Time Shifts -- 13. "Whose Woods These Are I Think I Know": Narrative Theory and Diana Wynne Jones's Hexwood -- 14. "Time No Longer: The Context(s) of Time in Tom's Midnight Garden -- Further Reading -- Contributors -- Index.