Understanding children's literature [electronic resource] : key essays from the second edition of The International companion encyclopedia of children's literature / edited by Peter Hunt.

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.