I. THINKING ABOUT CHILDREN AND LITERATURE. 1. How to Read This Book. 2. How to Read Children's Literature. 3. Teaching Children Literature.

4. Strategies for Reading a Literary Text. II. CULTURE, IDEOLOGY, AND CHILDREN'S LITERATURE. 5. Common Assumptions about Childhood. 6. Children in Ideology.

7. Literature and Ideology. III. CHILDREN'S LITERATURE AND THE LITERARY REPERTOIRE. 8. Children's Literature as Repertoire. 9. The Repertoire of Theory.

IV. KINDS OF CHILDREN'S LITERATURE. 10. Poetry. 11. Picture Books. 12. Fairy Tales and Myths.

Appendix: Finding Out More about Children's Literature.