Reflections of change : children's literature since 1945 / edited by Sandra L. Beckett.

I. Theory and children's literature. Fear of children's literature : what's left (or right) after theory? / Perry Nodelman
"Is this the promised end
?" : fin de siècle mentality and children's literature / John Stephens
Ramona the underestimated : the everyday-life story in children's literature / Deborah Stevenson. II. Shifting boundaries between children's and adult literature. The disappearance of children's literature (or children's literature as nostalgia) in the United States in the late twentieth century / Jerry Griswold
Literature for all ages? : literary emancipation and the borders of children's literature / Anne de Vries
The changing status of children and children's literature / Eva-Maria Metcalf. III. Experimental writing and postmodern trends. From grand narrative to small stories : new narrative structures in recent Scandinavian children's literature / Åsfrid Svensen
The status of sequels in children's literature : The long secret and Beyond the chocolate war / Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer
Gillian Cross's Wolf : an exploration of patterns and polarities / Susan Clancy.

IV. Paradigm shifts. Reflections of change in children's book titles / Maria Nikolajeva
High and wild magic, the moral universe, and the electronic superhighway : reflections of change in Susan Cooper's fantasy literature / Carole Scott
"Terror is her constant companion" : the cult of fear in recent books for teenagers / Roderick McGillis
Suburban scenarioes in Simon French's All we know : the emergence of the suburbs as the spatial framework for Australian children's fiction / Beverley Pennell
Reading children's literature multiculturally / Daniel D. Hade. V. National literatures. The journey inward : adolescent literature in America, 1945-1995 / Anne Scott MacLeod
The novel for adolescents in Quebec : stereotypes and new conventions / Danielle Thaler
Realistic stories in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1970-1994 : features and tendencies / Dagmar Grenz
Text and context : factors in the development of children's literature in Taiwan, 1945-1995, and the emergence of young adult literature / Shu-Jy Duan. VI. Reconceptualizing the past. An awfully big adventure? : representations of the Second World War in British children's books of the 1960s and 1970s / Dieter Petzold
Topsy-turvy world : new trends in modern Russian children's literature / Olga Mäeots
Children's literature in totalitarian and post-totalitarian society / Vincas Auryla.