Julia Mickenberg is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of the award-winning Learning from the Left: Children's Literature, the Cold War, and Radical Politics in the United States, and co-editor of Tales for Little Rebels: A Collection of Radical Children's Literature.Lynne Vallone is Professor and Chair of Childhood Studies at Rutgers University, the first Ph.D.-granting department of Childhood Studies in the United States. She is the author of Becoming Victoria and Disciplines of Virtue: Girls' Culture in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, as well as co-associate general editor of the Norton Anthology of Children's Literature.

The quality of the scholarship is high, the editing sure, presentation appealing (though fat, it's an inviting book to read) and the referencing full and unfussy... The result is a sophisticated collection that passes both the dip-test and the long haul: opened at random, the book draws you in: read it at length, and you finish a satisfying chapter feeling there is more to be said... It can be wholly recommended.

• INTRODUCTION-JULIA MICKENBERG AND LYNNE VALLONE; I. ADULTS AND CHILDREN; II. PICTURES AND POETICS; III. READING HISTORY/LEARNING RACE AND CLASS; IV. INNOCENCE AND AGENCY

Julia Mickenberg is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of the award-winning Learning from the Left: Children's Literature, the Cold War, and Radical Politics in the United States, and co-editor of Tales for Little Rebels: A Collection of Radical Children's Literature.Lynne Vallone is Professor and Chair of Childhood Studies at Rutgers University, the first Ph.D.-granting department of Childhood Studies in the United States. She is the author of Becoming Victoria and Disciplines of Virtue: Girls' Culture in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, as well as co-associate general editor of the Norton Anthology of Children's Literature.

The quality of the scholarship is high, the editing sure, presentation appealing (though fat, it's an inviting book to read) and the referencing full and unfussy... The result is a sophisticated collection that passes both the dip-test and the long haul: opened at random, the book draws you in: read it at length, and you finish a satisfying chapter feeling there is more to be said... It can be wholly recommended.

• INTRODUCTION-JULIA MICKENBERG AND LYNNE VALLONE; I. ADULTS AND CHILDREN; II. PICTURES AND POETICS; III. READING HISTORY/LEARNING RACE AND CLASS; IV. INNOCENCE AND AGENCY