Children’s Literature Comes of Age: Toward a New Aesthetic (Routledge Library Editions: Children’s Literature) 1st Edition 9781138946354

Originally published in 1996. A detailed analysis of the art of children’s literature covering world literature for children, children’s literature as a canonical art form, the history of children’s literature from a semiotic perspective, and epic, polyphony, chronotope, intertextuality, and metafiction in children’s literature.