The Haunted Wood, page 57
Pearce, Philippa
Tom’s Midnight Garden 336–40
Peck, Dale 418
Peel, Robert 44
penny-bloods 5, 394
penny dreadfuls 139, 140, 161
periodicals see magazines
Perrault, Charles 5, 73, 83, 88–9, 174
‘Cinderilla; Or, The Little Glass Slipper’ 88–9
Tales and Stories of the Past with Morals, or Tales of Mother Goose 73, 88
Peter Pan books see Barrie, J.M.
pets 179, 180, 265, 466
Phiz (Hablot Knight Browne) 519
physics 378, 379, 381, 391, 512
picture books 139, 156–8, 184, 454, 517–47
Pieńkowski, Jan 529, 538
Pinker, Steven 45
Pink Floyd 253, 254
Pinocchio stories 114, 174–7
Pippi Longstocking series (Lindgren) 13, 358–9, 360, 361
pirates 161–2, 236, 237, 242, 266, 540
play 41, 48, 49, 62, 68, 114, 288, 331
playgrounds 14, 373, 502
Play School (TV show) 59
Pliny the Elder 443
pocket-money 367–8
poetry 22, 24, 102, 238, 269–71, 527, 531, 546
Pollan, Michael 111
Pollock, Hugh 334
portals 113, 122, 492
post-war writers 321–63
overview 323–5
Blyton, Uttley, Pearce and Boston 326–42
Jansson and Lindgren 354–63
C.S. Lewis 343–53
Potter, Beatrix 28, 142, 179–85, 179, 250, 283, 520
The Tailor of Gloucester 182
Tale of Ginger and Pickles 184
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson 183n, 184–5
The Tale of Mrs Tiggy-Winkle 181
The Tale of Mrs Tittlemouse 306
The Tale of Mr Tod 183
The Tale of Samuel Whiskers 183, 185
The Tale of the Pie and the Patty-Pan 182
Timmy Tiptoes 182
poverty 42, 95, 141, 456
prehistory of children’s writing 19–53
overview 21–3
child is father of the man 45–53
excavating the past 24–6
fables and morals 27–30
pre-modern childhood 37–44
shapes of stories 31–6
pre-modern childhood 37–44
Price, Willard 134n, 452, 491
Amazon Adventure 134n
primers 25, 520
princes and princesses 33, 35, 90, 171, 172
printing 23, 139, 520
Propp, Vladimir 544
Morphology of the Folktale 31–4
psychedelia 110, 111
psychoanalytical thinking 214, 239, 361
puberty 44, 423, 424–5, 513, 516
publishing industry 5, 197, 281, 329–30, 412, 452, 504–6, 508
Puffin books 330, 444, 457
Pullman, Philip 387, 395, 481, 510–16
La Belle Sauvage 516
The Book of Dust trilogy 516
Daemon Voices: Essays on Storytelling 516
His Dark Materials trilogy 510, 511, 512–16
Northern Lights 510, 513
The Secret Commonwealth 516
The Subtle Knife 514–15
punishment 47, 361–3, 442, 443
Puritans 60, 83
queens and kings 90, 170, 173
quests 33, 34, 307, 380, 382, 383
Quigly, Isabel 431n
Quintilian 28
rabbits, psychic 430
race and racism
Blackman’s writings 455–60, 462–3
and Blyton 332, 452
Burnett’s The Secret Garden 211n
Cooper’s writings 385–6
Dahl’s writings 442, 444
Fisk’s writings 395
Henty’s stories 132–4
Kipling’s stories 147n
Le Guin on 390, 452–3
Lewis’s Narnia stories 351–2
Lofting’s Doctor Dolittle 268–9
Nesbit’s writing 223
Price’s stories 134, 134n
Pullman on 511
representation and diversity overview 447, 451
Rowling’s Harry Potter series 506, 507
Rackham, Arthur 197, 444, 519
radio 372, 374
Ransome, Arthur 287–91, 329
The Picts and the Martyrs 291
Swallows and Amazons 287–90, 443
readers 15–16, 141, 447, 454
see also adult readers; child readers; female readers
reading
danger and subversion 83
encouraging 554, 555–6
human impulse for stories 551–6
Locke on 48
lower levels of child reading 551
pre-modern childhood 38, 39
television effect 372–3
Reagan, Ronald 429
realism
Adams’s Watership Down 430, 431
Blume’s fiction 423, 424
Dahl’s writings 445
darker side 411–12
Edwardian writers 195
fantasy and science fiction 112, 367
Hinton’s The Outsiders 418
Nesbit’s writing 223
representation and diversity 453
reason 49–50, 52
Reeve, Philip
Mortal Engines trilogy 554
Reflecting Realities report 453
religion
Aesop’s fables 29
Blume’s fiction 424
Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress 63
Burnett’s The Secret Garden 213
and Carroll 99, 108
and Darwinism 119, 141
golden age of children’s writing 96
Lewis’s Narnia stories 344, 347–9, 351
Pullman’s writing 511, 512, 515
and science 96
and Sherwood 78–9
Renton, Alex
Stiff Upper Lip 123
representation 447–77
overview 449, 453–5, 457, 463
Malorie Blackman 450–63
Jacqueline Wilson 464–77
rereading 553
Rhodopis (‘rosy-cheeks’) story 86
Rhue, Morton
The Wave 420
rhyme 527
Rice, Anne 503
Richards, Frank (aka Charles Hamilton) 128
Riddell, Chris 519
rights of children 44, 196
Riordan, Rick
Percy Jackson books 508, 554
Robbins, Ruth 453
Romanticism 45, 53, 112, 273n
Rosen, Michael 441–2, 540
We’re Going on a Bear Hunt 521
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 45, 49–53
Emile, or On Education 49–53
Rowling, J.K. 11, 12, 15, 129, 331, 346, 387, 461, 465, 481, 483–509, 511, 555
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 501
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 501, 507
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 496, 501, 505
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 497, 500–1, 504
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 490, 497, 498, 505
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone 483, 488, 489, 495, 503, 504, 510
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban 15, 487, 495, 498, 500
Harry Potter series 4, 6, 8, 12, 113, 147, 483–6, 487–509, 510, 551
Quidditch Through the Ages 501
The Tales of Beedle the Bard 501
Rundell, Katherine
Impossible Creatures 554
Why You Should Read Children’s Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise 553
The Wolf Wilder 4, 554
Russian folklore 90, 495
Sachar, Louis
Holes 554
Said, S.F.
Varjak Paw books 4, 554
St Trinian’s cartoons 129n
Salinger, J.D. 418
The Catcher in the Rye 226, 412
Satha, Marcus 454n
Satha, Sarah 454n
Scales, Pat 424
Scarry, Richard 28, 519
Scheffler, Axel 519, 546
school stories
and Blyton 128, 329
Brazil and girls’-school stories 128
Cormier’s The Chocolate War 419, 420
as genre 13, 289, 292
Hughes’s Tom Brown’s School Days 121–8, 152
journals and magazines 281
Kipling’s Stalky & Co. 143, 151–5
Richards’s Greyfriars School stories 128
Rowling’s Harry Potter series 129, 490, 491
see also education
science 96, 378, 379–80, 381
science fiction
overview 367
darker side 411
Fisk and Westall 393–407
Le Guin and L’Engle 388–92
Pullman’s writing 512
rise of 400
young adult (YA) literature 508
Scott, Walter 520
Searle, Ronald 129, 129n
Second World War
Adams’s Watership Down 432
and Blyton 332, 334
Dahl’s writings 440
effect on post-war writers 323
evacuation of children 323–4
Fisk’s writings 400, 401
Serrailllier’s writings 400n
and Tolkien 303
Westall’s writings 403–6
White’s The Sword in the Stone 318, 319
Sendak, Maurice 13, 531–3
In the Night Kitchen 532, 541
Outside Over There 532, 533
Where The Wild Things Are 307, 531–2, 533
sensation literature 5, 38, 161, 169
sensitivity readers 444
serial publication 160, 224, 394
Serraillier, Ian
The Silver Sword 400n
Seuss, Dr. see Dr. Seuss
Seven Stories centre 34, 407
Sewell, Anna 185–6
Black Beauty 185, 186–92
Sewell, Mary 186, 187
Walks With Mama 186
sexuality
Barrie’s Peter Pan 239–40
Blume’s fiction 424, 427, 428
and Carroll 104, 105
Dahl’s writings 439
darker side and realism 412
Grahame’s writing 249
Lewis’s Narnia stories 352
Rowling’s Harry Potter series 506, 507
sexualising of children 39
Westall’s writings 405
Shakespeare, William 82, 162, 386, 432
Sharratt, Nick 465, 471
Shaw, George Bernard 220, 220n, 221
Shepard, E.H. 519
Sherlock Holmes stories (Doyle) 227, 346, 520
Sherwood, Mary Martha 70, 74–5, 78–81
The History of Little Henry and his Bearer 75–8
The History of the Fairchild Family 75n, 78–80
Shrek franchise 33
Shukla, Nikesh 453
Shulman, Nicola 273n
silliness 102, 112, 114
Simon, Francesca
Horrid Henry 554
Simplified Spelling Sosieti [sic] 198
single mothers 483, 484, 489
sisters, ugly 89
slavery 42–3, 191, 494
Smallwood, Imogen
A Childhood at Green Hedges: A Fragment of Autobiography by Enid Blyton’s Daughter 334, 336
Smart, Jamie
Bunny vs Monkey series 555
‘The Smith and the Devil’ folktale 21
Smith, Dodie
The Hundred and One Dalmatians 12
Smith, Sean 494
Snicket, Lemony
A Series of Unfortunate Events 554
‘Snow White’ (story) 379
social media 462, 466, 482, 552, 553, 554
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) 191
songs 22, 108–9
sound 305, 527
Southey, Robert
‘The Old Man’s Comforts and How He Gained Them’ 109
space travel 393, 395, 396, 542
speech 21, 284, 284n
Spielberg, Steven 439
Spock, Benjamin 468
sport 123–4
Spyri, Johanna
Heidi 5, 197
Steele, F.E. 224
Stephenson, Neal
Snow Crash 502
stepmothers, wicked 86
stereotypes
gender stereotypes 221–3, 285
Henty’s stories 132–4
Lofting’s Doctor Dolittle 268
Nesbit and gender 221–3
racial stereotypes 132–4, 223, 268, 351–2, 442, 444, 451, 452–3
Rowling’s Harry Potter series 507
Stevenson, Robert Louis 130, 160–6, 169
A Child’s Garden of Verses 161
Kidnapped 165–6, 183
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde 161
Travels With A Donkey 161
Treasure Island 160, 161–5, 197, 236, 288
Stone, Lawrence
The Family, Sex and Marriage in England 1500–1800 40
Story Museum, Oxford 34n
The Story of Little Black Sambo 181, 451, 452
storytelling
defining folktales, fairy stories and myth 35
human impulse for stories 551–6
prehistory of children’s writing 21–3
Propp and folktales 31, 32, 33, 34
Pullman on 516
purpose of children’s literature 7
‘seven basic stories’ 34
shapes of stories 31–6
Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Uncle Tom’s Cabin 191, 204
Stowell, Louie
Loki series 555
Strabo 86
The Strand (magazine) 224, 520
Streatfeild, Noel 299–302, 334, 464
Ballet Shoes 299–302, 467, 519n
Stroud, Jonathan 380–1
Studio Ghibli 386
Sunday schools 72, 140
Superman comics 541
Swift, Jonathan
Gulliver’s Travels 37, 38, 118, 144
tabula rasa (‘blank slate’) 45
Taylor, G.P. 508, 509
Shadowmancer series 508
teddy bears 179
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 374
teenagers
Blackman’s writings and representation 463
Judy Blume 423–9
darker side and realism 412–13
development of children’s publishing 5
Hinton and Cormier 414–22
mystery franchises 281–2
Oz magazine 420
television 368, 369–74, 407, 476, 552
Tempest, Margaret 335
Tenniel, John 106, 444, 519
theatre 207, 240, 300, 373, 374
Thompson, Kay
Eloise books 284n
Thwaite, Ann 197, 208
time
Amis on 481
Boston’s The Children of Green Knowe 340, 341
and Carroll’s Alice 101–2, 105
children’s relation to 8–9
Pearce’s Tom’s Midnight Garden 337, 338, 339, 340
taxonomies 8–9
visual iconography and datedness 9
White’s The Sword in the Stone 317
Tintin comic series (Hergé) 13, 451, 452, 542
Tolkien, J.R.R. 170, 304–5, 348, 367, 375, 376, 382, 391, 494–5, 498
The Fellowship of the Ring 304n, 495
The Hobbit 170, 303–4, 304n, 305–10, 346, 377, 493
The Lord of the Rings 303, 304n, 306, 309, 346, 494, 495
Tolstoy, Leo
‘Strider’ 185
tomboys 332–3
tongue-twisters 527
Torday, Piers
Last Wild series 4, 554
Townsend, Stephen 216
Townsend, Sue
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾ 328
Townsend Warner, Sylvia 314, 314n, 315
toys 48, 179, 239, 249, 273n, 274–6, 368, 374, 541
Tracy Beaker books (Wilson) 471–7
Transformers 374
translations 174, 504–5, 542
trans people 332, 507, 508
Travers, P.L. 8, 292–9
Mary Poppins Comes Back 294, 296
Mary Poppins in the Park 296
Mary Poppins Opens the Door 296, 541
Mary Poppins stories 8, 292–4, 296–9, 541
trees, magic 87, 89, 342
Trimmer, Sarah 70, 72, 73, 81
Fabulous Histories, Designed for the Instruction of Children Respecting their Treatment of Animals 73, 179
The Ladder of Learning 73
Turing, Alan 379
Twain, Mark 249
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 13
‘Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star’ 109
2000 AD (comic) 542
Uderzo, Albert 542
underworld 108, 170, 172
unheimlich 399, 523
United States 412, 463, 506
Upton, Florence
The Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls and a Golliwogg 452
Uttley, Alison 335
Little Grey Rabbit 335
vampires 399
Verne, Jules 160, 393
verse see poetry
Victoria, Queen 100, 141, 142, 191
Victorian writers see late Victorians
videogames 369, 374, 552–3
villains 33, 34, 36, 88, 163, 442
violence 123, 126, 235–6, 362, 372, 412, 460, 516
Viorst, Judith
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day 3, 538–9
Viz (magazine) 128n
Walker, Alice 457
Wallace, David Foster
Infinite Jest 502
Walliams, David 444n, 555
wanderlust 256, 306
Watch with Mother (TV show) 371
Watts, Isaac
Divine Songs Attempted in Easy Language for the Use of Children 64–5, 108–9, 128n
Waugh, Evelyn 261
Brideshead Revisited 325
Webb, Kaye 330
Wells, H.G. 172, 221, 271
Wendy Houses 239
Wesley, John 60
Westall, Robert 403–7
Children of the Blitz 406
Fathom Five 406
Futuretrack 5 407, 452
The Machine Gunners 403–6
The Making of Me 407
Westin, Boel 356
White, E.B. 13
Charlotte’s Web 556
White, T.H. 310–18, 391, 496
The Book of Merlyn 310n
The Candle in the Wind 314, 317
The Once and Future King 310, 311
The Queen of Air and Darkness 317n
The Sword in the Stone 310–11, 312–13, 314, 315–17, 318–19, 491
Wilde, Oscar
‘The Selfish Giant’ 207n
Wild Hunt 382
Willans, Geoffrey
How to Be Topp 129
Molesworth stories 129, 490
Williams, Rowan 510
Wilson, A.N. 345, 351
Tom’s Midnight Garden 336–40
Peck, Dale 418
Peel, Robert 44
penny-bloods 5, 394
penny dreadfuls 139, 140, 161
periodicals see magazines
Perrault, Charles 5, 73, 83, 88–9, 174
‘Cinderilla; Or, The Little Glass Slipper’ 88–9
Tales and Stories of the Past with Morals, or Tales of Mother Goose 73, 88
Peter Pan books see Barrie, J.M.
pets 179, 180, 265, 466
Phiz (Hablot Knight Browne) 519
physics 378, 379, 381, 391, 512
picture books 139, 156–8, 184, 454, 517–47
Pieńkowski, Jan 529, 538
Pinker, Steven 45
Pink Floyd 253, 254
Pinocchio stories 114, 174–7
Pippi Longstocking series (Lindgren) 13, 358–9, 360, 361
pirates 161–2, 236, 237, 242, 266, 540
play 41, 48, 49, 62, 68, 114, 288, 331
playgrounds 14, 373, 502
Play School (TV show) 59
Pliny the Elder 443
pocket-money 367–8
poetry 22, 24, 102, 238, 269–71, 527, 531, 546
Pollan, Michael 111
Pollock, Hugh 334
portals 113, 122, 492
post-war writers 321–63
overview 323–5
Blyton, Uttley, Pearce and Boston 326–42
Jansson and Lindgren 354–63
C.S. Lewis 343–53
Potter, Beatrix 28, 142, 179–85, 179, 250, 283, 520
The Tailor of Gloucester 182
Tale of Ginger and Pickles 184
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson 183n, 184–5
The Tale of Mrs Tiggy-Winkle 181
The Tale of Mrs Tittlemouse 306
The Tale of Mr Tod 183
The Tale of Samuel Whiskers 183, 185
The Tale of the Pie and the Patty-Pan 182
Timmy Tiptoes 182
poverty 42, 95, 141, 456
prehistory of children’s writing 19–53
overview 21–3
child is father of the man 45–53
excavating the past 24–6
fables and morals 27–30
pre-modern childhood 37–44
shapes of stories 31–6
pre-modern childhood 37–44
Price, Willard 134n, 452, 491
Amazon Adventure 134n
primers 25, 520
princes and princesses 33, 35, 90, 171, 172
printing 23, 139, 520
Propp, Vladimir 544
Morphology of the Folktale 31–4
psychedelia 110, 111
psychoanalytical thinking 214, 239, 361
puberty 44, 423, 424–5, 513, 516
publishing industry 5, 197, 281, 329–30, 412, 452, 504–6, 508
Puffin books 330, 444, 457
Pullman, Philip 387, 395, 481, 510–16
La Belle Sauvage 516
The Book of Dust trilogy 516
Daemon Voices: Essays on Storytelling 516
His Dark Materials trilogy 510, 511, 512–16
Northern Lights 510, 513
The Secret Commonwealth 516
The Subtle Knife 514–15
punishment 47, 361–3, 442, 443
Puritans 60, 83
queens and kings 90, 170, 173
quests 33, 34, 307, 380, 382, 383
Quigly, Isabel 431n
Quintilian 28
rabbits, psychic 430
race and racism
Blackman’s writings 455–60, 462–3
and Blyton 332, 452
Burnett’s The Secret Garden 211n
Cooper’s writings 385–6
Dahl’s writings 442, 444
Fisk’s writings 395
Henty’s stories 132–4
Kipling’s stories 147n
Le Guin on 390, 452–3
Lewis’s Narnia stories 351–2
Lofting’s Doctor Dolittle 268–9
Nesbit’s writing 223
Price’s stories 134, 134n
Pullman on 511
representation and diversity overview 447, 451
Rowling’s Harry Potter series 506, 507
Rackham, Arthur 197, 444, 519
radio 372, 374
Ransome, Arthur 287–91, 329
The Picts and the Martyrs 291
Swallows and Amazons 287–90, 443
readers 15–16, 141, 447, 454
see also adult readers; child readers; female readers
reading
danger and subversion 83
encouraging 554, 555–6
human impulse for stories 551–6
Locke on 48
lower levels of child reading 551
pre-modern childhood 38, 39
television effect 372–3
Reagan, Ronald 429
realism
Adams’s Watership Down 430, 431
Blume’s fiction 423, 424
Dahl’s writings 445
darker side 411–12
Edwardian writers 195
fantasy and science fiction 112, 367
Hinton’s The Outsiders 418
Nesbit’s writing 223
representation and diversity 453
reason 49–50, 52
Reeve, Philip
Mortal Engines trilogy 554
Reflecting Realities report 453
religion
Aesop’s fables 29
Blume’s fiction 424
Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress 63
Burnett’s The Secret Garden 213
and Carroll 99, 108
and Darwinism 119, 141
golden age of children’s writing 96
Lewis’s Narnia stories 344, 347–9, 351
Pullman’s writing 511, 512, 515
and science 96
and Sherwood 78–9
Renton, Alex
Stiff Upper Lip 123
representation 447–77
overview 449, 453–5, 457, 463
Malorie Blackman 450–63
Jacqueline Wilson 464–77
rereading 553
Rhodopis (‘rosy-cheeks’) story 86
Rhue, Morton
The Wave 420
rhyme 527
Rice, Anne 503
Richards, Frank (aka Charles Hamilton) 128
Riddell, Chris 519
rights of children 44, 196
Riordan, Rick
Percy Jackson books 508, 554
Robbins, Ruth 453
Romanticism 45, 53, 112, 273n
Rosen, Michael 441–2, 540
We’re Going on a Bear Hunt 521
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 45, 49–53
Emile, or On Education 49–53
Rowling, J.K. 11, 12, 15, 129, 331, 346, 387, 461, 465, 481, 483–509, 511, 555
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 501
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 501, 507
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 496, 501, 505
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 497, 500–1, 504
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 490, 497, 498, 505
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone 483, 488, 489, 495, 503, 504, 510
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban 15, 487, 495, 498, 500
Harry Potter series 4, 6, 8, 12, 113, 147, 483–6, 487–509, 510, 551
Quidditch Through the Ages 501
The Tales of Beedle the Bard 501
Rundell, Katherine
Impossible Creatures 554
Why You Should Read Children’s Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise 553
The Wolf Wilder 4, 554
Russian folklore 90, 495
Sachar, Louis
Holes 554
Said, S.F.
Varjak Paw books 4, 554
St Trinian’s cartoons 129n
Salinger, J.D. 418
The Catcher in the Rye 226, 412
Satha, Marcus 454n
Satha, Sarah 454n
Scales, Pat 424
Scarry, Richard 28, 519
Scheffler, Axel 519, 546
school stories
and Blyton 128, 329
Brazil and girls’-school stories 128
Cormier’s The Chocolate War 419, 420
as genre 13, 289, 292
Hughes’s Tom Brown’s School Days 121–8, 152
journals and magazines 281
Kipling’s Stalky & Co. 143, 151–5
Richards’s Greyfriars School stories 128
Rowling’s Harry Potter series 129, 490, 491
see also education
science 96, 378, 379–80, 381
science fiction
overview 367
darker side 411
Fisk and Westall 393–407
Le Guin and L’Engle 388–92
Pullman’s writing 512
rise of 400
young adult (YA) literature 508
Scott, Walter 520
Searle, Ronald 129, 129n
Second World War
Adams’s Watership Down 432
and Blyton 332, 334
Dahl’s writings 440
effect on post-war writers 323
evacuation of children 323–4
Fisk’s writings 400, 401
Serrailllier’s writings 400n
and Tolkien 303
Westall’s writings 403–6
White’s The Sword in the Stone 318, 319
Sendak, Maurice 13, 531–3
In the Night Kitchen 532, 541
Outside Over There 532, 533
Where The Wild Things Are 307, 531–2, 533
sensation literature 5, 38, 161, 169
sensitivity readers 444
serial publication 160, 224, 394
Serraillier, Ian
The Silver Sword 400n
Seuss, Dr. see Dr. Seuss
Seven Stories centre 34, 407
Sewell, Anna 185–6
Black Beauty 185, 186–92
Sewell, Mary 186, 187
Walks With Mama 186
sexuality
Barrie’s Peter Pan 239–40
Blume’s fiction 424, 427, 428
and Carroll 104, 105
Dahl’s writings 439
darker side and realism 412
Grahame’s writing 249
Lewis’s Narnia stories 352
Rowling’s Harry Potter series 506, 507
sexualising of children 39
Westall’s writings 405
Shakespeare, William 82, 162, 386, 432
Sharratt, Nick 465, 471
Shaw, George Bernard 220, 220n, 221
Shepard, E.H. 519
Sherlock Holmes stories (Doyle) 227, 346, 520
Sherwood, Mary Martha 70, 74–5, 78–81
The History of Little Henry and his Bearer 75–8
The History of the Fairchild Family 75n, 78–80
Shrek franchise 33
Shukla, Nikesh 453
Shulman, Nicola 273n
silliness 102, 112, 114
Simon, Francesca
Horrid Henry 554
Simplified Spelling Sosieti [sic] 198
single mothers 483, 484, 489
sisters, ugly 89
slavery 42–3, 191, 494
Smallwood, Imogen
A Childhood at Green Hedges: A Fragment of Autobiography by Enid Blyton’s Daughter 334, 336
Smart, Jamie
Bunny vs Monkey series 555
‘The Smith and the Devil’ folktale 21
Smith, Dodie
The Hundred and One Dalmatians 12
Smith, Sean 494
Snicket, Lemony
A Series of Unfortunate Events 554
‘Snow White’ (story) 379
social media 462, 466, 482, 552, 553, 554
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) 191
songs 22, 108–9
sound 305, 527
Southey, Robert
‘The Old Man’s Comforts and How He Gained Them’ 109
space travel 393, 395, 396, 542
speech 21, 284, 284n
Spielberg, Steven 439
Spock, Benjamin 468
sport 123–4
Spyri, Johanna
Heidi 5, 197
Steele, F.E. 224
Stephenson, Neal
Snow Crash 502
stepmothers, wicked 86
stereotypes
gender stereotypes 221–3, 285
Henty’s stories 132–4
Lofting’s Doctor Dolittle 268
Nesbit and gender 221–3
racial stereotypes 132–4, 223, 268, 351–2, 442, 444, 451, 452–3
Rowling’s Harry Potter series 507
Stevenson, Robert Louis 130, 160–6, 169
A Child’s Garden of Verses 161
Kidnapped 165–6, 183
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde 161
Travels With A Donkey 161
Treasure Island 160, 161–5, 197, 236, 288
Stone, Lawrence
The Family, Sex and Marriage in England 1500–1800 40
Story Museum, Oxford 34n
The Story of Little Black Sambo 181, 451, 452
storytelling
defining folktales, fairy stories and myth 35
human impulse for stories 551–6
prehistory of children’s writing 21–3
Propp and folktales 31, 32, 33, 34
Pullman on 516
purpose of children’s literature 7
‘seven basic stories’ 34
shapes of stories 31–6
Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Uncle Tom’s Cabin 191, 204
Stowell, Louie
Loki series 555
Strabo 86
The Strand (magazine) 224, 520
Streatfeild, Noel 299–302, 334, 464
Ballet Shoes 299–302, 467, 519n
Stroud, Jonathan 380–1
Studio Ghibli 386
Sunday schools 72, 140
Superman comics 541
Swift, Jonathan
Gulliver’s Travels 37, 38, 118, 144
tabula rasa (‘blank slate’) 45
Taylor, G.P. 508, 509
Shadowmancer series 508
teddy bears 179
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 374
teenagers
Blackman’s writings and representation 463
Judy Blume 423–9
darker side and realism 412–13
development of children’s publishing 5
Hinton and Cormier 414–22
mystery franchises 281–2
Oz magazine 420
television 368, 369–74, 407, 476, 552
Tempest, Margaret 335
Tenniel, John 106, 444, 519
theatre 207, 240, 300, 373, 374
Thompson, Kay
Eloise books 284n
Thwaite, Ann 197, 208
time
Amis on 481
Boston’s The Children of Green Knowe 340, 341
and Carroll’s Alice 101–2, 105
children’s relation to 8–9
Pearce’s Tom’s Midnight Garden 337, 338, 339, 340
taxonomies 8–9
visual iconography and datedness 9
White’s The Sword in the Stone 317
Tintin comic series (Hergé) 13, 451, 452, 542
Tolkien, J.R.R. 170, 304–5, 348, 367, 375, 376, 382, 391, 494–5, 498
The Fellowship of the Ring 304n, 495
The Hobbit 170, 303–4, 304n, 305–10, 346, 377, 493
The Lord of the Rings 303, 304n, 306, 309, 346, 494, 495
Tolstoy, Leo
‘Strider’ 185
tomboys 332–3
tongue-twisters 527
Torday, Piers
Last Wild series 4, 554
Townsend, Stephen 216
Townsend, Sue
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾ 328
Townsend Warner, Sylvia 314, 314n, 315
toys 48, 179, 239, 249, 273n, 274–6, 368, 374, 541
Tracy Beaker books (Wilson) 471–7
Transformers 374
translations 174, 504–5, 542
trans people 332, 507, 508
Travers, P.L. 8, 292–9
Mary Poppins Comes Back 294, 296
Mary Poppins in the Park 296
Mary Poppins Opens the Door 296, 541
Mary Poppins stories 8, 292–4, 296–9, 541
trees, magic 87, 89, 342
Trimmer, Sarah 70, 72, 73, 81
Fabulous Histories, Designed for the Instruction of Children Respecting their Treatment of Animals 73, 179
The Ladder of Learning 73
Turing, Alan 379
Twain, Mark 249
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 13
‘Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star’ 109
2000 AD (comic) 542
Uderzo, Albert 542
underworld 108, 170, 172
unheimlich 399, 523
United States 412, 463, 506
Upton, Florence
The Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls and a Golliwogg 452
Uttley, Alison 335
Little Grey Rabbit 335
vampires 399
Verne, Jules 160, 393
verse see poetry
Victoria, Queen 100, 141, 142, 191
Victorian writers see late Victorians
videogames 369, 374, 552–3
villains 33, 34, 36, 88, 163, 442
violence 123, 126, 235–6, 362, 372, 412, 460, 516
Viorst, Judith
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day 3, 538–9
Viz (magazine) 128n
Walker, Alice 457
Wallace, David Foster
Infinite Jest 502
Walliams, David 444n, 555
wanderlust 256, 306
Watch with Mother (TV show) 371
Watts, Isaac
Divine Songs Attempted in Easy Language for the Use of Children 64–5, 108–9, 128n
Waugh, Evelyn 261
Brideshead Revisited 325
Webb, Kaye 330
Wells, H.G. 172, 221, 271
Wendy Houses 239
Wesley, John 60
Westall, Robert 403–7
Children of the Blitz 406
Fathom Five 406
Futuretrack 5 407, 452
The Machine Gunners 403–6
The Making of Me 407
Westin, Boel 356
White, E.B. 13
Charlotte’s Web 556
White, T.H. 310–18, 391, 496
The Book of Merlyn 310n
The Candle in the Wind 314, 317
The Once and Future King 310, 311
The Queen of Air and Darkness 317n
The Sword in the Stone 310–11, 312–13, 314, 315–17, 318–19, 491
Wilde, Oscar
‘The Selfish Giant’ 207n
Wild Hunt 382
Willans, Geoffrey
How to Be Topp 129
Molesworth stories 129, 490
Williams, Rowan 510
Wilson, A.N. 345, 351
