THOMAS VAN DER WALT is Senior Lecturer, Department of Information Science at the University of South Africa.

• IntroductionRenewing Stories of Childhood: Children's Literature as a Creative Art by Rosemary JohnstoneWhen Everything Old is New Again: Aboriginal Tests and the Politics of Renewal by Clare BradfordSpace and Race in Contemporary South African English Your Literature by Judith A. InggsExploring Otherness: Cheantes in the Child-Animal Metamorphosis Motif by Maria Lassén-SegerA Happy Blend of Universality and Novelty: "Julie of the Wolves" and "A Ring of Endless Light as Stories Crossing the Animal-human Boundary by Darja Mazi-LeskovarMe, Myself, and Him - The Changing Face of Female Cross-dressing in Contemporary Children's Literature by Victoria FlanaganVoyeruism and Power: Change and Renewal of the Eroticized Figure in Australian Books for Teenagers by Margot HillelFostering Controlled Dissent: Democratic Values and Children's Literature by Eva-Maria MetcalfChildhood as the Sign of Change: Hans Christian Anderson's Retellings of the Concept of Childhood in the Light of Romanticism, Modernism, and Children's Own Cultures by Helene HøyrupContinuity and Change in the Fantasy Tale - with a Focus on Recent Danish Works by Anna Karlskov SkyggebjergBlytons, Noddies and Denoddification Centres: The Changing Constructions of a Cultural Icon by David RuddChanging Perspectives: Tarzan Recalled and Retold at the Turn of the Millennium by Rolf RomörenSpell-binding Dahl: Considering Roald Dahl's Fantasy by Eileen Donaldson"Never Lonely, Always on the Go": The Merry-go-round as Kinetic Metonym, in Text and Illustration, in Tove Jansson's Short Story, "The Hemulen Who Loved Silence" by Sirke HapponenThe Beginning of All Poetry: Some Observations about Lullabies from Oral Traditions by Anne de VriesChange and Renewal: Translating the Visual in Picture Books by Riitta OittinenChange and Renewal of a Famous German Classic by Klaus DodererToo Many Elephants? Endangered Discourses in the Field of Children's Literature by Nancy HuseIndex