Adventures, Fantasy, and Dreams in Children’s Literature

Adventures, Fantasy, and Dreams in Children’s Literature

ISBN 9780981785462

Price: $38.00

232 pages, 13 chapters

Published June 2010, Paperback

Table Of Contents

Part I.
Adventures in Children’s Literature
“Adventures in Children’s Literature, An Introduction”, Judith Lynne McConnell-Farmer
“Down the Rabbit Hole, Out of the Wardrobe, and into the Light”, Mary Bayer
“Glimpses of the Kingdom of God in C.S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia”, Deborah Taylor
“A Voyage of Discovery: Exploring a Kaleidoscope of Religion
and Culture in the Writings of Mollie Hunter”,
Susan Cooper
“From Misfits to Super Heroes: The Evolution of the Orphan in Children’s Literature”, Jennifer Lovitt

Part II.
Fantasy in Children’s Literature
“Fantasy in Children’s Literature, An Introduction”, Judith Lynne McConnell-Farmer
“P.L. Travers’s Mary Poppins Books as Portals to Western Culture”, Catherine Elick
“Mary Poppins: English Nanny or Eastern Guru?”, Yvonne Fish-Kalland
“Deconstructing the ‘Rabbit’ in Children’s Literature”, Tamara Bergstrom and Dawna Underwood
“A Way In: Children’s Alphabet Books and Their Impact on Religious/Cultural Mores”, Katherine Thompson
“Social Intolerance and Racism in a Magical World”, Eileen Sogoloff

Part III. Dreams in Children’s Literature
“Dreams in Children’s Literature, An Introduction”, Judith Lynne McConnell-Farmer
“Anti-Bias Dreams for Native American Portrayals in Children’s Literature”, Garnet Wind
“The Religious Aspects in Virginia Hamilton’s The People Could Fly and Other Sources”, Cora Phelps Dunkley
“Amelia Etta Hall Johnson’s God’s Way: the Antidote to Drink”, Geri Jacobs
“Authors of Oxford: Adventures, Fantasy, and Dreams in Children’s Literature”, Judith Lynne McConnell-Farmer and M.W. Farmer