Cover -- Acknowledgements -- Copyright -- Contents -- Jenny Plastow: Introduction to The Sands of Time -- Margot Hillel and Jenny Plastow: Introduction to the chapters -- Roxanne Harde: 'One way to get an education': Elizabeth Stuart Phelps and the borders between working and other children in nineteenth-century American children's literature -- Judith Humphrey: Subversion and resistance in the girls'school story -- Karian Schuitema: The possibility of an intercultural children's theatre in Britain -- Mary Clarke: 'Not in charge of the story': The presence of Rapunzel in Charles Dickens' Great Expectations and Margaret Mahy's The Other Side of Silence -- Beverley Naidoo: Ghosts have a way of rising: Writing the past, the present, and crossing the fence -- Margot Hillel: Welcoming Strangers: The politics of 'othering' in three Australian picture books -- Karen Argent: Picture books and their influence on social constructions of disability -- Richard MacSween: Children in conflict: the significance of children's literature in relation to war: An interview with Elizabeth Laird -- Madelyn Travis: Building a new world: Gender and modernism in E. Nesbit's The Magic City -- Chris Clark: Now anything goes: Changing influences in historical and theoretical perspectives on children's historical fiction through narratives of Robin Hood -- Philip Stogdon: Torments in the Himalayas: Isolation and identity in Maurice Sendak's The Sign on Rosie's Door and Christina Stead's The Man Who Loved Children -- Andrea Peterson: 'Knowledge, more than anything else, can overcome oppression': Subjectivity and autonomy in the characterisation of Charlotte Armstrong-Barnes and Maggie Dundas in Theresa Breslin's Remembrance -- CONTRIBUTORS.