Introduction - innocent children and unstable literature, Victor Watson. Part 1 The voice of children: real stories or pretty stories - a question of criteria, Elizabeth Hamill; "you're not wasting your money on that!" - a bookseller's view, Kate Agnew; is a series reader a serious reader?, Jenny Daniels; revenge of the teenage horrors - pleasure, quality and canonicity in (and out of) popular series fiction, Charles Sarland. Part 2 Voices from the past: parents and children - the changing relationship of the generations, as reflected in fiction for young people, John Rowe Townsend; Aesop for children - power and morality, David Whitley; "every child may joy to hear" - poetry for children from Bunyan to Rosen, Morag Styles; "what's a cultural heritage when it's at home?" - playing with Shakespeare in the primary school, Janet Bottoms; the way we were, Jan Mark. Part 3 Classroom voices: reading picture books ... how to, Geoff Fox; "the one horse" - making and reading stories across cultures, Brigid Smith; "with the wind behind you" - language development through drama at KS1, Lesley Hendy; "but Ingrid will have dessert" - letter writing as part of a nourishing literary diet, Holly Anderson. Part 4 Voices off: voices off - reading wordless picture books, Anne Rowe; small portable galleries - the picturebooks of Satoshi Kitamura, Victor Watson with Satoshi Kitamura; voices on stage, Helen Nicholson; encountering the different, Gabrielle Cliff Hodges. Part 5 Voices of authority: masks of the narrator, Jill Paton Walsh; lost boys - violence and imperialism in popular constructions of masculinity, Mary Hilton; mind the gap - critical literacy as dangerous underground movement, Eve Bearne.
