The Haunted Wood, page 56
The Hardy Boys stories (Dixon) 281, 282
Hargreaves, Alice (née Liddell) 16–17, 97–8, 103, 105, 106, 107
Harmsworth, Alfred 140
Harry Potter series (Rowling) 4, 6, 8, 12, 113, 147, 483–6, 487–509, 510, 551
Harvey Darton, F.J. 161
Hawkins, Elizabeth 457
health 42–4, 46–7, 273n
Heidi (Spyri) 5, 197
Heisenberg, Werner 378
Henty, G.A. 131–5, 160, 452
By Sheer Pluck 132, 133
The Cat of Bubastes 131
Collected Works 131, 133
‘How Boys’ Books Are Written’ 132
Out on the Pampas 133–4
With Lee in Virginia 131, 133
Heracles 24, 48
Hergé (Georges Remi) 451–2, 542
The Blue Lotus 451
The Shooting Star 451
Tintin comic series 13, 451, 452, 542
Tintin in America 451
Tintin in the Congo 451, 452
heroes and heroines 33, 34, 35, 88, 390
Hetherington, Hector 370–1
Higham, David 314n
Higson, Charlie
Young Bond 554
Himmelweit Report 370–1, 372–3
Hinton, S.E. 412, 423, 426
The Outsiders 414–18, 420
hiraeth 252, 256
The Hobbit (Tolkien) 170, 303–4, 304n, 305–10, 346, 377, 493
Hockridge, Derek 542
Hoff, Benjamin
The Tao of Pooh 274
Hoffman, Heinrich 519
Struwwelpeter 128n, 443, 541
Holocaust 324, 532
home 252, 399
Homer 6, 22, 24, 25, 432
The Iliad 435
The Odyssey 26, 255–6, 351
homosexuality 249, 314, 314n, 379, 465
Hoole, Charles 58n
hornbooks 520, 520n
Horowitz, Anthony 554
horror writing 367, 393, 394, 396, 397, 399, 400
houses, gingerbread 90
Howl’s Moving Castle (film) 386
Hughes, Kathryn 439
Hughes, Shirley
Dogger 538
Hughes, Ted 101, 262
Hughes, Thomas
Tom Brown’s School Days 57, 96, 121–8, 129, 152, 427
humour 84, 174
Humpty Dumpty 101, 110
Hunt, Peter 81, 139, 277
Hurd, Clement 523
hymns 64, 72, 78, 128n
identification 454
If (film) 420
illustrations and illustrators
Quentin Blake 444–5, 519
Burnett’s Little Lord Fauntleroy 208
Dr. Seuss 519, 526, 527, 537
Jansson’s Moomin stories 354–5
Kipling as illustrator 157
Le Guin on 452–3
Lofting’s Doctor Dolittle 263
picture books 517–47
Potter’s animal stories 184
Rackham 197, 444, 519
Robbins 453
Scheffler 519, 546
Sharratt 465, 471
Shepard 519
Tempest 335
Tenniel 106, 444, 519
visual iconography and datedness 9
imaginary friends 359, 361
immigration 450
‘improving’ books 202, 442
Inclusive Books for Children Award 454n
India 77, 78, 91, 149–50, 153, 450
infant mortality 40, 50
inner child 53
innocence 49, 52, 104, 246, 420
instruction, and delight 57, 66
internet 481, 502, 553
intertextuality 11
interwar years 259–319
overview 261–2
franchise works 278–91
Lofting and Milne 263–77
Tolkien and White 303–19
Travers and Streatfeild 292–302
Ithaca Kitty 179
Jack, Ian 291
Jackanory (TV series) 372
Jackson, Holly
A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder 554
James, Henry 35
James, William 254
Janet and John books 521
Janeway, James
A Token for Children 60–2, 71
Jansson, Tove 354–7
Comet in Moominland 356
Finn Family Moomintroll 356–7
The Moomins and the Great Flood 355–6
Moomin stories 13, 354–7
Jeffers, Oliver
Stuck 539–40
Jefferson Airplane
‘White Rabbit’ 111
Johns, (Captain) W.E.
Biggles Defies the Swastika 280
Biggles Does Some Homework 281
Biggles of the Special Air Police 280
Biggles stories 278–81, 500
The Camels Are Coming 278
‘The White Fokker’ 278–9
Johnson, Juliet 430, 432
jokes 227, 532, 539–40
jolly-hockey-sticks girls 128
Jouguet, P. 26
Judge Dredd 542
jungle stories 134, 143, 145, 146, 147
Just William books (Crompton) 13, 80, 282–7, 500
juvenile delinquency 141, 394, 412, 415, 418
Kafka, Franz 499
Keene, Carolyn
Nancy Drew mysteries 281–2
The Secret of the Old Clock 281
Kerr, Judith 4, 519, 529, 533–7, 538, 555
Goodbye Mog 535
Mog series 3, 535
Mog the Forgetful Cat 3, 535
Out of the Hitler Time trilogy 535
The Tiger Who Came to Tea 3, 526, 535–7
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit 534–5, 537
killing off characters 461, 497–8
King, Stephen
Danse Macabre 394
kings and queens 90, 170, 173
Kingsley, Charles 96, 114–20, 121, 130
Glaucus, or The Wonders of the Shore 118n
The Water-Babies 44, 57, 96, 115, 116–20, 180, 226, 491
Westward Ho! 115
Kingston, W.H.G. 130–1
Peter the Whaler 130
Kinney, Jeff
Diary of a Wimpy Kid 4, 555
Kipling, Josephine (‘Effie’) 17, 156–7
Kipling, Rudyard 3, 28, 127, 142–59, 227, 258, 269–70, 490, 521
‘How Fear Came’ 145
The Jungle Book 142, 144–5, 148–9, 224, 227, 373
The Just So Stories 3, 17, 142, 145, 156–9, 182, 521
‘Kaa’s Hunting’ 146–7
Kim 142, 143, 149–51, 156
‘Letting in the Jungle’ 148
‘Mowgli’s Song’ 148
Puck of Pook’s Hill 142, 158, 227, 255, 492
‘Recessional’ 142
‘Rikki-Tikki-Tavi’ 145
The Second Jungle Book 145, 156
Stalky & Co. 128, 142, 143, 151–5, 156, 158, 227, 419
Kirkpatrick, D.L. 395
Klassen, Jon 4
I Want My Hat Back 540
Kneale, Nigel 535
labour see child labour
Lamb, Charles 81–2
Tales from Shakespeare 82
Lamb, Mary 82
lantern consciousness 111
late Victorians 137–92
overview 139–41
Kipling and law of the jungle 142–59
MacDonald and Collodi 170–7
Potter and Sewell 178–92
Stevenson and Meade Falkner 160–9
law of the jungle 146, 147
Lawrence, D.H. 254
Lawrence, Stephen 458
Lawson, Robert 522, 523
Leach, Penelope 468
Leaf, Munro 528
The Story of Ferdinand 522–3
Lear, Edward 102, 269
Book of Nonsense 103
‘The Owl and the Pussycat’ 183n
learning 5, 48, 68
Lego 374
Le Guin, Ursula K. 310, 388–91, 442, 492
Earthsea trilogy 388–91
Tehanu 390
The Tombs of Atuan 390
A Wizard of Earthsea 388–90, 452–3, 496
Leith, James 3
L’Engle, Madeleine 388, 391–2
Time Quintet 392
A Wrinkle in Time 391–2
Lerer, Seth 25
Lévi-Strauss, Claude 179
Lewis, C.S. 10, 170, 304–5, 343–53, 367, 375, 376, 380, 490, 510–11, 513, 514, 516
The Chronicles of Narnia 343
A Grief Observed 345
The Horse and His Boy 348, 352
The Last Battle 346, 350, 352
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe 34, 343, 345, 347
The Magician’s Nephew 10, 346–7
Narnia stories 170, 304, 343, 345–53, 411, 510–11
Prince Caspian 350, 352
The Silver Chair 170, 350
Surprised By Joy: The Shape of My Early Life 344
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader 350, 351
The Witches 34
Lewis, Warren H. 344, 345
libraries 82, 197, 281, 331, 412, 429, 455, 466
Liddell, Alice (later Hargreaves) 16–17, 97–8, 103–5, 106, 107
The Lilliputian Magazine 65
Lindgren, Astrid 354, 358–62
The Bullerby Children 358
The Children on Troublemaker Street 358
Karlsson Flies Again 359, 361
Karlsson on the Roof 359
Karlsson stories 359–61
Lotta’s Bike 358
‘Never Violence’ speech 362
Pippi Longstocking series 13, 358–9, 360, 361
The World’s Best Karlsson 359
Lish, Gordon 530
Listen With Mother (radio series) 372
literacy 23, 39, 141, 281, 551
Little, Christopher 489
Little Black Sambo 181, 451, 452
Locke, John 7, 45–50, 66, 72n
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding 45
Some Thoughts Concerning Education 46–8
Lofting, Hugh 263–9, 278, 288
Doctor Dolittle series 263, 264–9, 288
The Story of Doctor Dolittle 263, 265–6, 268–9
The Voyages of Dr Dolittle 267
The Lord of the Rings (Tolkien) 303, 304n, 306, 309, 346, 494, 495
Lot o’ Fun (comic) 541
love 239–40, 391, 427, 428
Mabinogion 381, 382
MacDonald, George
The Princess and the Goblin 4, 170–4
Macfarlane, Robert 385
Mackintosh, Cameron 293
magazines
The Boys’ Friend 393
boys’ magazines 128, 130, 139, 140, 281, 393
Boy’s Own Paper 130, 139, 140
Enid Blyton’s Magazine 224, 329
Gem 128, 281
girls’ magazines 139, 281, 464, 470
Girl’s Own Paper 139
Jackie 470
The Lilliputian Magazine 65
Magnet 128, 281
market growth 139
Orwell on 128
Oz 420
Viz 128n
Young Folks 160
magic
Burnett’s The Secret Garden 213, 214
and Carroll 112–13
Cooper’s writings 382, 383, 384
defining folktales, fairy stories and myth 35
and fairytales 89–90
Garner’s writings 376, 382, 384
Lewis’s Narnia stories 346
Nesbit’s writing 229
Rowling’s Harry Potter series 496
Travers on 295
magic trees 87, 89, 342
Magnet (magazine) 128, 281
make-believe 226, 236, 237, 238, 239, 248
Malory, Thomas 311, 311n, 491
Morte d’Arthur 37, 310
Marinetti, Filippo
Futurist Manifesto 256
Marryat, Captain (Frederick) 130, 160
Marvel comics 542
Mary Poppins stories (Travers) 8, 12, 292–4, 296–9, 541
Maschler, Tom 445
masturbation 419, 426, 429
mathematics 100, 100n
Mather, Cotton
A Token for the Children of New England 60
McCay, Winsor
Little Nemo in Slumberland 541
McKean, Dave 519
McKee, David
Elmer the Patchwork Elephant series 538
Not Now, Bernard 538
McKinnel, Lindy 403, 407
Meade Falkner, John
Moonfleet 166–9
media 482, 503, 505, 551–2
Melville, Herman
Bartleby, the Scrivener 420
Moby-Dick 65, 418
memory 10, 25
menstruation 425, 426
mental health 273n
merchandising 114, 179, 207, 354, 374, 503, 506n
Methuen 250, 542, 543
metre 271, 527
Meyers, Stephanie
Twilight series 508
Miller, Madeleine 432
Milne, A.A. 10, 207, 250–1, 257, 269–76, 331, 527
‘Blood and Thunder’ 140
The House at Pooh Corner 271–2, 273, 275, 276
‘Market Square’ 271
‘Politeness’ 270
‘Puppy And I’ 270–1
Toad of Toad Hall 250, 254
‘Vespers’ 270, 276
When We Were Very Young 269, 270–1
Winnie-the-Pooh 269, 271–6, 519
Milne, Christopher Robin 17, 270–7, 331, 336
The Enchanted Places 276, 277
Milton, John 513, 515
Paradise Lost 511–12
mind, as tabula rasa 45–6
misogyny 352, 511
modernity 254, 256, 338, 443
Mog series (Kerr) 3, 535
Molesworth, Mary Louisa 284n
Molesworth stories 129, 490
money, pocket 367–8
monsters 11, 30, 394, 399, 531
Moomin stories (Jansson) 13, 354–7
Moorcock, Michael 225
Moore, Janie 344
Moore, Marianne 238
moralists and fabulists 57–92
fairytales 83–92
lessons from Puritans 57–69
rectitude and romanticism 74–82
respectable ladies 70–3
morality 7, 29, 88, 128n, 228, 229n, 384n, 442–3, 528, 553
Moral Majority 429
moral panics 332, 369, 394, 412
Morpugo, Michael 11, 554
motherhood 51, 215, 241–5, 246, 468, 483, 484, 497
Mr. Men 7n
‘Mrs’ named authors 70
Murphy, Jill 491, 540–1
Five Minutes’ Peace 540
Large Family series 540
A Piece of Cake 540–1
The Worst Witch 491, 540
Murray, Alison 174
‘muscular Christianity’ 96, 121
musicals 293
mystery franchises 281–2
myths
Adams’s Watership Down 432, 435
Cooper’s writings 382, 383, 384
defining folktales, fairy stories and myth 35, 36
Garner’s writings 376, 380, 381
intertextuality and retellings 11
Le Guin’s writings 390
Locke on education 48
playground games 14
prehistory of children’s writing 22
Propp and folktales 34
television and medium of stories 373
White’s The Sword in the Stone 310
Nabokov, Vladimir 114n
Nancy Drew mysteries (Keene) 281–2, 454
Narnia stories (Lewis) 170, 304, 343, 345–53, 411, 510–11
narrative 36, 48, 57
narrators 169, 225, 240, 465
National Literacy Trust 551, 554
nature 134, 179, 180–1, 212–13, 229, 230, 254, 331, 338
nature/nurture debate 45, 50, 51
naughtiness 15, 62
Nazism 280, 318, 386, 533–4, 537, 538
Neal, Patricia 439
Nesbit, E. 11, 197, 198, 217–33, 227, 234, 283, 337, 485, 490
‘The Criminal’ 233
Five Children and It 223, 226, 227–8, 229–30, 466
The Magic City 197
Neolith magazine 224
The New Treasure Seekers 222, 224, 226, 228
The Phoenix and the Carpet 218, 223
The Railway Children 219, 228, 230–3, 292, 466
The Story of the Amulet 222–3, 346
The Story of the Treasure Seekers 219, 224, 225, 226–7, 346
Wings and the Child: Or, The Building of Magic Cities 230, 485
The Wouldbegoods 224, 229
neurodivergence 391, 454n
Newbery, John 65–9, 81, 85
The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes 69, 81
The Lilliputian Magazine 65
A Little Pretty Pocket-Book 65–8
Newbery Medal 65, 391
Newbolt, Henry
‘Vitai Lampada’ 123
Nicoll, Helen 538
Nicolson, Juliet 261
Noddy books (Blyton) 328, 332, 452
nonsense 102, 108
Nordic children’s stories 354–63
Norton, Mary
The Borrowers 324n
nostalgia 10, 126, 135, 191, 196, 363, 383, 493
novels 90, 112, 169, 224, 373–4, 519–20
nuclear war 347, 401
nudity 104–5
nursery rhymes 5, 10, 21, 22, 108–9, 110, 203, 521
n-word 133, 268, 462
Oastler, Richard 42
O’Brian, Patrick 130
‘Once upon a time’ beginnings 21, 36, 135, 475
One Thousand and One Nights 83, 90, 91–2
‘Operation Pied Piper’ 323
oral storytelling 22, 35, 84, 89, 373, 394
Orbach, Ruth
One Eighth of a Muffin 543
Orbis Sensualium Pictus (Comenius) 57–60, 61, 491, 520
originality 489
orphans
archetypal characters 11
Burnett’s A Little Princess 209
Burnett’s The Secret Garden 211
children’s rights 196
and Day 52n
freedom of fiction 15
Meade Falkner’s Moonfleet 167
orphanages 41
Rowling’s Harry Potter series 486, 494, 495, 497
Streatfeild’s Ballet Shoes 299
Wilson’s Tracy Beaker 472
Orwell, George
‘Boys’ Weeklies’ 128
on Kipling 155
Such, Such Were the Joys 405
Westall’s writings 405
Oxenbury, Helen 538
Oxyrhynchus papyri 24–5
Oz magazine 420
Paget, Sidney 520
pagination 531, 532, 540
Palgrave, Mary 75n
Pan 254–5
papyri 24–5
parenthood 15, 40, 215, 231, 292, 484, 497, 554
Parker, Dorothy 273
Paver, Michelle
Wolf Brother books 554
