Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Abbreviations -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Literature Review -- New Zealand Children's Literature -- Statistical Analysis of Translated Children's Books -- Literary Translation in New Zealand -- Children's Literature Research -- Translation Studies and Children's Literature -- Translation Studies and Paratext -- Reviewing Media -- 1 The History of Translated Children's Literature in New Zealand -- Method -- 1.1 Index Translationum -- 1.2 New Zealand Children's Books in Print -- 1.3 Potential Sources on Imported Translations -- 1.4 Analysing the National Library's Children's Collections -- 1.4.1 Method and Problems -- 1.4.2 Before 1940: The Dorothy Neal White Collection -- 1.4.3 1942-1993: The National Children's -- 1.5 Trade Publishers Translating Children's Literature into English -- 1.5.1 Gecko Press: The Translation Process -- 1.5.2 Gecko Press: Business Development -- 1.5.3 The Gecko Press List -- 2 Specific Conditions of the New Zealand Children's Book Market -- Method -- 2.1 Nationalism -- 2.1.1 Defining New Zealand Cultural Products -- 2.1.2 Nationalising Translations -- 2.1.3 Nationalism in Gecko Press and Book Island Marketing and Branding -- 2.1.4 Nationalising Foreign Cultural Products: The Lord of the Rings Movies -- 2.1.5 Consolidating Gecko's New Zealand Image -- 2.1.6 Conclusion -- 2.2 The Education System, Educational Publishing and Children's Literature -- 2.2.1 Suitability and Readability -- 2.2.2 Educational Publishing for Children -- 2.2.3 Literacy Products -- 2.2.4 Children's Writers and Educational Publishing -- 2.2.5 Powerful Mediators: Libraries and Schools -- 2.2.6 Conclusion -- 2.3 Gaps -- 2.3.1 "Sophisticated" Picture Books -- 2.3.2 The Quality Gap -- 2.3.3 Comics -- 3 Case Studies -- Method -- 3.1 Case Study 1: The Pettson and Findus books.

3.2 Case Study 2: Ulf Stark's My Friend Percy series -- 3.3 Case Study 3: Duck, Death and the Tulip -- 3.3.1 Excursus: The Depiction of Death in New Zealand Picture Books in English -- 3.4 Case Study 4: Reflections of a Solitary Hamster -- Conclusion -- Discussion: Translation, Identity and Children's Literature in New Zealand -- References.