Introduction, the expanding world of children's literature studies / Peter Hunt -- Theorising and theories / David Rudd -- Critical tradition and ideological positioning / Charles Sarland -- Space, history and culture / Tony Watkins -- Analysing texts / John Stephens -- Readers, texts, contexts / Michael Benton -- Reading the unconscious / Hamida Bosmajian -- Feminism revisited / Lissa Paul -- Decoding the images / Perry Nodelman -- Bibliography / Matthew Grenby -- Understanding reading and literacy / Sally Yates -- Intertextuality and the child reader / Christine Wilkie-Stibbs -- Healing texts / Hugh Crago -- What the authors tell us / Peter Hunt.