Pat Pinsent was Principal Lecturer in English and is currently Senior Research Fellow at the NCRCL. Her published books include The Power of thePage: Children's Books and Their Readers (1993), Children's Literature and the Politics of Equality (1997) and a collection of studies of neglected twentieth-century children's authors (2006), together with many edited compilations of the proceedings of the annual IBBY/NCRCL MA conferences. She has published numerous articles on children's literature and one of her main current preoccupations is the diverse ways in which children's literature is developing. She edits The Journal of Children's Literature Studies and IBBYLink.Jennifer Harding is a freelance editor and indexer with a regular clientele ranging from children's literature to politics and mathematics. Formerly a lecturer in further education for seventeen years, she followed this with fifteen years with a well-known educational publisher as an in-house editor. She is Associate Editor of IBBYLink and also a member of the Children's Book History Society.

‘…there is much here to be savoured’Elizabeth Hammill- Co-founder of Seven Stories, Childrens Books History Society Newsletter No.96- May 2010‘From Sweden to South Africa, from Australia to Cyprus- the range of countries covered in this collection of 22 essays on piture books is astonishing. ‘What do you see?' Provides a fascinating multi-facetted insight into picture books worldwide.’Evamaria Zettl- University of Education, Thurgau

Pat Pinsent was Principal Lecturer in English and is currently Senior Research Fellow at the NCRCL. Her published books include The Power of thePage: Children's Books and Their Readers (1993), Children's Literature and the Politics of Equality (1997) and a collection of studies of neglected twentieth-century children's authors (2006), together with many edited compilations of the proceedings of the annual IBBY/NCRCL MA conferences. She has published numerous articles on children's literature and one of her main current preoccupations is the diverse ways in which children's literature is developing. She edits The Journal of Children's Literature Studies and IBBYLink.Jennifer Harding is a freelance editor and indexer with a regular clientele ranging from children's literature to politics and mathematics. Formerly a lecturer in further education for seventeen years, she followed this with fifteen years with a well-known educational publisher as an in-house editor. She is Associate Editor of IBBYLink and also a member of the Children's Book History Society.

‘…there is much here to be savoured’Elizabeth Hammill- Co-founder of Seven Stories, Childrens Books History Society Newsletter No.96- May 2010‘From Sweden to South Africa, from Australia to Cyprus- the range of countries covered in this collection of 22 essays on piture books is astonishing. ‘What do you see?' Provides a fascinating multi-facetted insight into picture books worldwide.’Evamaria Zettl- University of Education, Thurgau

Pat Pinsent was Principal Lecturer in English and is currently Senior Research Fellow at the NCRCL. Her published books include The Power of thePage: Children's Books and Their Readers (1993), Children's Literature and the Politics of Equality (1997) and a collection of studies of neglected twentieth-century children's authors (2006), together with many edited compilations of the proceedings of the annual IBBY/NCRCL MA conferences. She has published numerous articles on children's literature and one of her main current preoccupations is the diverse ways in which children's literature is developing. She edits The Journal of Children's Literature Studies and IBBYLink.Jennifer Harding is a freelance editor and indexer with a regular clientele ranging from children's literature to politics and mathematics. Formerly a lecturer in further education for seventeen years, she followed this with fifteen years with a well-known educational publisher as an in-house editor. She is Associate Editor of IBBYLink and also a member of the Children's Book History Society.

‘…there is much here to be savoured’Elizabeth Hammill- Co-founder of Seven Stories, Childrens Books History Society Newsletter No.96- May 2010‘From Sweden to South Africa, from Australia to Cyprus- the range of countries covered in this collection of 22 essays on piture books is astonishing. ‘What do you see?' Provides a fascinating multi-facetted insight into picture books worldwide.’Evamaria Zettl- University of Education, Thurgau