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🥳PUBLISHED TODAY🎉 International Companion to Scottish Children’s Literature ed Maureen A Farrell & Robert A Davis Examining Scottish writing for children – from classics by Stevenson & Barrie to the latest works by contemporary writers, & from picturebooks to YA asls.org.uk/publications...

Book cover: The International Companion to Scottish Children’s Literature Edited by Maureen A. Farrell and Robert A. Davis Image: against a blue sky, a paper sculpture made from printed book pages of a sailing ship, a one-legged pirate, a palm tree and a treasure chest
Contents Series Editors’ Preface Acknowledgements Introduction (Maureen A. Farrell and Robert A. Davis) 1. The Origins of Scottish Children’s Literature (Maureen A. Farrell) 2. ‘Through the Midnight Sea’: Some Dimensions of Scottish Children’s Poetry (Robert A. Davis) 3. Children’s Scottish Historical Fiction (Beth Dickson) 4. A ‘Spell of Stories’: Scottish Children’s Fantasy (Sarah Dunnigan) 5. Gaelic Plays for Children 1900–1950 (Sìm Innes) 6. Stevenson’s Junior Fiction (David Robb) 7. Mollie Hunter’s Teen Fiction: Transitioning through Enchanted Humanness to Adulthood (Ralph Jessop) 8. Adolescent Citizenship in Cathy MacPhail’s Mosi’s War and Claire McFall’s Bombmaker (Fiona McCulloch) 9. From Fairy Cauldrons to An Gruffalo: The Development and Challenges of Scottish Gaelic Children’s Literature (Mairi Kidd) 10. Scottish Children’s Picturebooks Within a European and Global Context (Penni Cotton) 11. Ambition and Identity: Scottish Children’s Literary Prizewinners (Morna Fleming)
Contents (continued) 12. Scottish Poetry in the Scottish Secondary Classroom: Seeing Beyond the Set Texts (Jennifer Farrar) 13. Scottish Children’s Literature: Where Are We Now? (Maureen A. Farrell) Endnotes Further Reading Notes on Contributors Index
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