The hidden adult

• Acknowledgments

• 1
• Six Texts

• Different Texts, Same Genre

• Language

• Focalization

• Desire Confronts Knowledge

• Home and Away

• Variation

• Summary

• 2
• Exploring Assumptions

• Reading as an Adult

• Making Choices

• Assumptions about Genre

• Genre and Field

• Genre and Genres

• 3
• Children's Literature as a Genre

• Defining Children's Literature

• No Genre

• Different but Not Distinct

• Literature and Children

• For the Good of Children

• Literature for Boys and Literature for Girls

• Middle-Class Subjectivity

• Doubleness

• Specific Markers

• About Children

• The\Eyes of Children

• Simplicity and Sublimation

• The\Hidden Adult

• Narrator and Narratee

• Showing, Not Telling

• Happy Endings

• Achieving Utopia

• Binaries

• Repetition

• Variation

• A\Comprehensive Statement?

• The\Genre in the Field

• Sameness and Difference

• The\Sameness of Children's Literature

• Different Children's Literatures

• Different Children's Literatures

• 4
• The\Genre in the Field

• Distinctive Texts in the Genre

• Conclusion

• Notes

• Bibliography

• Index