Cover -- Content -- Introduction -- The Spanish Civil War in European Children's Literature - Blanca-Ana Roig Rechou and Veljka Ruzicka Kenfel -- Comparative Study of the Project Corpus - Mar Fernández Vázquez -- Chapter 1. The Representations of the Spanish Civil War in Children and Young Adults' Narrative in the Languages of the Spanish State -- Agustín Fernández Paz - A Tribute to the Memory of the Broken Dreams - Eulalia Agrelo Costas -- 1. As an introduction -- 2. As Sombras do Faro: The Ghosts of the Slain -- 3. Noite de Voraces Sombras: Dreams Cut Short -- 4. Corredores de Sombra: A silent cry against the forgotten -- 5. As a conclusion -- The Reality of the War - Pedro C. Cerrillo Torremocha -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Analiysis of the novel -- 3. Conclusion -- The Representation of The Spanish Civil War in Marina Mayoral's Juvenile Narrative Works - Mª del Carmen Ferreira Boo and Isabel Mociño González -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Chamábase Luís : Rosa, childhood memories marked by the war -- 3. Tristes armas: exile and family breakup -- 4. Quen matou a Inmaculada de Silva?: The discovery of themysterious familiar past -- 5. Conclusions -- Cielo abajo: The Civil War as Seen by an Adolescent - Ramón F. Llorens García -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Cielo abajo (2005) -- 3. The war as seen by an adolescent -- Gernika Revisited: Representation of the Spanish Civil War in Basque Children's and Young People's Literature - Mari Jose Olaziregi Alustiza -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Basque Literature and the Late Representation of the Spanish Civil War -- 3. A Learning Novel in the Mouth of an Enlightened Cow -- 4. Urtebete itsasargian (A year in the lighthouse), or a Story at the Service of Counter-memory -- 5. A Very Basque-speaking "Encyclopaedia" -- 6. Conclusions.

Aqueles anos do Moncho and the Early Years of the Story of the Civil War in Galician Children's Literature - Blanca-Ana Roig Rechou -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Aqueles Anos do Moncho and the series of stories about the Spanish Civil War by Neira Vilas -- 3. Conclusions -- The War as Depicted in the Works of Juan Farias: The Example of Años difíciles - César Sánchez Ortiz -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Juan Farias and the Renewal of Spanish Children's Literature -- 3. Media Tarde - The challenge of a Poetic Portrait of a War Drama -- 4. The final song. Children's Literature and Commitment -- War and Post-War in Catalan Young Adults Narrative: Chronicles from the Silence1 - Caterina Valriu Llinàs -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Young Adults' novels that deal with the Civil War -- 2.1. The narrative approach -- 2.2. Narrative time and space -- 2.3. The characters, halfway between testimony and memory -- 2.4. Ideology and literature -- 3. Writers: the testimony and the memory -- 4. Paratextual elements -- 5. Silenci al cor by Jaume Cela -- 6. Camí del far by Miquel Rayó -- 7. L'ú ltim vaixell by Gemma Pascual -- 8. Conclusion -- Chapter 2. The Representations of the Spanish Civil War in Children and Young Adults' Narrative in other European Languages -- German Children's Literature on the Spanish Civil War: Works and Authors - María Jesús Barsanti Vigo and María José Corvo Sánchez -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Works and Authors -- 2.1. Ein spanisches Testament (1938) -- 2.2. Begegnungam Ebro (1939) -- 2.3. Die Kinder von Gernika (1939) -- 2.4. Grüne Oliven und nackte Berge (1944) -- 2.5. Tschapaiew. Das Bataillon der 21 Nationen (1948) -- 2.6. Unter Spaniens Himmel (1961) -- 2.7. Spanisches Kriegstagebuch (1966) -- 2.8. Im Versteck (1972) -- 2.9. Das gross e Beispiel (1976) -- 2.10. Vier spanische Jungen (1987).

2.11. Schalom Libertad! Juden im spanischen Bürgerkrieg (1989) -- 2. 12. Spaniens Himmel breitet seine Sterne…oder Ein Lied kehrt zurück (2006) -- 3. Final Conclusions -- Els Pelgrom (The Netherlands): De Eikelvreters - The Acorn Eaters - Francesca Blockeel -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Children's Literature written in Dutch -- 1.2. The author: Els Pelgrom -- 2. The Acorn Eaters: theme and narrative aspects -- 3. Plot -- 4. Characters - genre of narration -- 5. Social conditions - Hunger -- 6. The Civil War and the Guardia Civil -- 7. Editions and Translations -- 8. Conclusions -- The Spanish Civil War in a Particular Fictionalised Story for the Francophone Youth - Javier de Agustín Guijarro -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Initial approach to the diegesis of the text: an individual storywithin social history -- 3. Narratologic analysis -- 4. Thematic analysis -- 4.1. Thematic structure of the story 1 -- 4.2. Thematic structure of story 2 -- 4.3. Thematic Structure of Story 3 and Conclusion -- Between History and Fiction: A Casa de Eulália by Manuel Tiago - José António Gomes, Ana Margarida Ramos and Sara Reis da Silva -- 1. Introduction -- the paratext -- 2. The text: macrostructure, diegesis, male and female characters inthe novel -- 3. The collective character -- intertextuality -- 4. Language and style -- 5. Manuel Tiago: life and works and the neo-realist programme -- Two Perspectives on the Spanish Civil War in Croatian Texts for Young Adult - Sanja Lovric -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Ideology and Propaganda in Children's Literature and Literaturefor Young Adults -- 3. Analysis of Selected Literary Texts -- The Spanish Civil War in The English Literature for Children: A Case Study - Ana María Pereira Rodríguez -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Toro! Toro!, by Morpurgo: content and narrative structure.

3. The referents of Spanish culture and their transmission to an Anglo-Saxon children audience: the Civil War and the bulls -- The Narrative of Adventures and the Spanish Civil War: A Reading of Os Imbatíveis em Salamanca (1994) by Manuela Moniz Lopes and Cremilde Madaíl - Ana Margarida Ramos, José António Gomes and Sara Reis da Silva -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The collection structure -- 3. Characters -- 4. Spanish thematic and Spanish Civil War -- 5. Conclusions -- Cross-Story(ies): Fictional Historiographical Construction in Campos de Lágrimas by José Jorge Letria - Sara Reis da Silva, José António Gomes and Ana Margarida Ramos -- 1. Introduction: bio and bibliographical notes -- 2. Campos de Lágrimas: analysing an history that reads History -- 3. Conclusion -- References to the Spanish Civil War in English Language Children's Literature: Tell the Moon to Come Out by Joan Lindgard - Celia Vázquez García -- 1. Introduction -- 2. English Language Literature and Criticism and the Civil War -- 3. The Female Voice in Spanish, the Civil War and Children'sLiterature -- 4. The Civil War and English Children's Literature -- 4.1. Background -- 4.2. The Story of Ferdinand -- 4.3. Biggles in Spain -- 4.4. The Prime of Miss Brodie -- 4.4.1. The Author and her Motives -- 4.4.2. Similarities between her Life and the Novel -- 4.4.3. Setting -- 4.4.4. Introduction of Important Historical and Literary Characters -- 4.4.5. Themes: Fascism, Religion and the Feeling of Plenitude -- 4.4.6. Structure and Timeline -- 5. Tell the Moon to Come Out -- 5.1. Biography of Joan Lindgard and the Similarities to the Novel -- 5.2. Themes and Setting of Tell the Moon to Come Out -- 5.3. Anecdotal References to Literary Characters -- 5.4. Structure and Timeline -- Chapter 3. Illustration.

Imagery in the Spanish Children's Literature - María Jesús Agra Pardiñas and Carmen Franco Vázquez -- 1. As an introduction -- 2. Thoughts on Illustration in Children's Literature -- 3. Analysis -- 4. As an conclusion.