SANDRA L. BECKETT is Professor of French at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario. She has served as the Vice-President of the International Research Society for Children's Literature (IRSCL). Her research focuses on contemporary French fiction for adults as well as children. She is the author of three books on Henri Bosco, and has recently completed a book entitled Les grands romanciers écrivent pour les enfants, 1945-1995. She has also published numerous articles on the contemporary French novel, as well as French and French-Canadian children's literature.

• Introduction: Reflections of Change Theory and Children's Literature Fear of Children's Literature: What's Left (or Right) After Theory? by Perry Nodelman "Is This the Promised End...?": Fin de Siecle Mentality and Children's Literature by John Stephens Ramona the Underestimated: The Everyday-Life Story in Children's Literature by Deborah Stevenson Shifting Boundaries Between Children's and Adult Literature The Disappearance of Children's Literature (or Children's Literature as Nostalgia) in the United States in the Late Twentieth Century by Jerry Griswold Literature for All Ages? Literary Emancipation and the Borders of Children's Literature by Anne de Vries The Changing Status of Children and Children's Literature by Eva-Maria Metcalf Experimental Writing and Postmodern Trends From Grand Narrative to Small Stories: New Narrative Structures in Recent Scandinavian Children's Literature by Asfrid Svensen The Status of Sequels in Children's Literature: The Long Secret and Beyond the Chocolate War by Bettina Kummerling-Meibauer Gillian Cross' Wolf: An Exploration of Patterns and Polarities by Susan Clancy Paradigm Shifts Reflections of Change in Children's Book Titles by Maria Nikolajeva High and Wild Magic, the Moral Universe, and the Electronic Superhighway: Reflections of Change in Susan Cooper's Fantasy Literature by Carole Scott "Terror is Her Constant Companion": The Cult of Fear in Recent Books for Teenagers by Roderick McGillis Suburban Scenarios in Simon French's All We Know: The Emergence of the Suburbs as the Spatial Framework for Australian Children's Fiction by Beverley Pennell Reading Children's Literature Multiculturally by Daniel D. Hade National Literatures The Journey Inward: Adolescent Literature in America, 1945-1995 by Anne Scott MacLeod The Novel for Adolescents in Quebec: Stereotypes and New Conventions by Danielle Thaler Realistic Stories for Children in the Federal Republic of Germany 1970-1994: Features and Tendencies by Dagmar Grenz Text and Context: Factors in the Development of Children's Literature in Taiwan 1945-1995, and the Emergence of Young Adult Literature by Shu-Jy Duan Reconceptualizing the Past An Awfully Big Adventure? Representations of the Second World War in British Children's Books of the 1960s and 1970s by Dieter Petzold Topsy-Turvy World: New Trends in Modern Russian Children's Literature by Olga MAeots Children's Literature in Totalitarian and Post-totalitarian Society by Vincas Auryla Selected Bibliography Index