Table of Contents

Issues in children's literature criticism; on knowing the child - stories of origin and hierarchical systems; on knowing the child - stories of origin and the education-amusement divide; on knowing the child - the terms of children's literature criticism; on not knowing the child - children's literature criticism and adult literary theory; the reading child and other children - the psychoanalytic child and psychoanalytic space - a consideration of some theoretical issues in psychotherapy, on ways of hearing and seeing patients in some cases of child psychotherapy.

Reviews

`This book is exhaustively researched and meticulously documented'
Junior Bookshelf
'This compact book is the contribution of an Oxford don to the rapidly expanding field of criticsm in children's literature.'
Frank Warren. School Library
`a book which is on the whole both scholarly and thought-provoking'
Critical Survey