Fruits of the Academic Forest: Exploring Books about Children’s Books

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Books Reviewed: Cadden, Mike. Ursula K. Le Guin: Beyond Genre: Fiction for Children and Adults. New York: Routledge, 2005. 203 pp. US$95 hc. ISBN 0-415-97218-3. Coats, Karen. Looking Glasses and Neverlands: Lacan, Desire, and Subjectivity in Children’s Literature. Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 2004. 191 pp. US$34.95 hc. ISBN 0-87745-882-0. Clark, Beverly Lyon. Kiddie Lit: The Cultural Construction of Children’s Literature in America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2003. 257 pp. $53.95 hc. ISBN 0-8018-6900-5. Glasgow, Jacqueline, ed. Strategies for Engaging Young Adult Readers: A Social Themes Approach. Norwood, MA: Christopher-Gordon, 2005. 238 pp. US$36.95. ISBN1-929024-78-9. Lesnik-Oberstein, Karín, ed. Children’s Literature: New Approaches. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. 235 pp. $115.00 hc, $37.95 pb. ISBN 1-4039-1737-X, 1-4039-1738-8. Lundin, Anne. Constructing the Canon of Children’s Literature: Beyond Library Walls and Ivory Towers. New York: Routledge, 2004. 178 pp. US$95.00 hc. ISBN 0-815-33841-4. Natov, Roni. The Poetics of Childhood. New York: Routledge, 2003. 289 pp. US$90.00 hc. ISBN 0-8153-3882-1. O’Sullivan, Emer. Comparative Children’s Literature. New York: Routledge, 2005. US$105.00 hc. ISBN 0-415-30551-9. Shavit, Zohar. A Past Without Shadow: Constructing the Past in German Books for Children. Trans. Aaron Jaffe and Ataron Jaffe. New York: Routledge, 2005. 353 pp. US$95.00 hc. ISBN 0-415-96924-7.