Catherine Butler is Reader in English Literature at Cardiff University. Her academic books include Four British Fantasists (2006), Reading History in Children’s Books (2012) and Literary Studies Deconstructed (2018). She has also edited numerous academic collections, and is Editor-in-Chief of the journal, Children’s Literature in Education.

This is a highly original and significant work, bringing a new angle to children's literature studies and engaging an impressively large corpus. This is certain to be internationally leading as a touchstone for anyone interested in children's literature, transnationalism and Japanese studies.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgementsNote on the TextIntroduction: Writing from the Outside InChapter 1. Wonderland or Looking-Glass? Meiji Japan Through the Lens of Children’s LiteratureChapter 2. Britain and the Origins of Japanese Children’s LiteratureChapter 3. Canons to the West, Canons to the East: The Japanese Reception of British Children’s BooksChapter 4. Hayao Miyazaki and British Children’s LiteratureChapter 5. Children’s Literature, Tourism and the Japanese ImaginationPostscript: Reading from the Inside OutBibliographyIndex

Catherine Butler is Reader in English Literature at Cardiff University. Her academic books include Four British Fantasists (2006), Reading History in Children’s Books (2012) and Literary Studies Deconstructed (2018). She has also edited numerous academic collections, and is Editor-in-Chief of the journal, Children’s Literature in Education.

This is a highly original and significant work, bringing a new angle to children's literature studies and engaging an impressively large corpus. This is certain to be internationally leading as a touchstone for anyone interested in children's literature, transnationalism and Japanese studies.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgementsNote on the TextIntroduction: Writing from the Outside InChapter 1. Wonderland or Looking-Glass? Meiji Japan Through the Lens of Children’s LiteratureChapter 2. Britain and the Origins of Japanese Children’s LiteratureChapter 3. Canons to the West, Canons to the East: The Japanese Reception of British Children’s BooksChapter 4. Hayao Miyazaki and British Children’s LiteratureChapter 5. Children’s Literature, Tourism and the Japanese ImaginationPostscript: Reading from the Inside OutBibliographyIndex

Catherine Butler is Reader in English Literature at Cardiff University. Her academic books include Four British Fantasists (2006), Reading History in Children’s Books (2012) and Literary Studies Deconstructed (2018). She has also edited numerous academic collections, and is Editor-in-Chief of the journal, Children’s Literature in Education.

This is a highly original and significant work, bringing a new angle to children's literature studies and engaging an impressively large corpus. This is certain to be internationally leading as a touchstone for anyone interested in children's literature, transnationalism and Japanese studies.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgementsNote on the TextIntroduction: Writing from the Outside InChapter 1. Wonderland or Looking-Glass? Meiji Japan Through the Lens of Children’s LiteratureChapter 2. Britain and the Origins of Japanese Children’s LiteratureChapter 3. Canons to the West, Canons to the East: The Japanese Reception of British Children’s BooksChapter 4. Hayao Miyazaki and British Children’s LiteratureChapter 5. Children’s Literature, Tourism and the Japanese ImaginationPostscript: Reading from the Inside OutBibliographyIndex