Mystery in Children's Literature

Notes on the Contributors Mystery in Children's Literature from the Rational to the Supernatural: An Introduction; A.E.Gavin & C.Routledge 'so great and beautiful that I cannot write them': Religious Mystery and Children's Literature; P.Pinsent Nancy's Ancestors: The Mystery of Imaginative Female Power in The Secret Garden and A Little Princess; M.J.Moran The Juvenile Detective and Social Class: Mark Twain, Scouting for Girls , and the Nancy Drew Mysteries; T.Boone Children's Detective Fiction and the 'Perfect Crime' of Adulthood; C.Routledge Digging up the Family Plot: Secrets, Mystery, and the Blytonesque; D.Rudd Plotting the Past: The Detective as Historian in the Novels of Philippa Pearce; V.Krips The Secret Development of a Girl Writer: Louise Fitzhugh's Harriet the Spy; R.A.Morris Apparition and Apprehension: Emergent Womanhood and Supernatural Mystery in Novels for Children by Women Writers; A.E.Gavin Possessed by the Beast: Subjectivity and Agency in Pictures in the Dark and Foxspell; C.Bradford 'There are Worse Things than Ghosts': Reworking Horror Chronotopes in Australian Children's Fiction; J.Stephens & R.McCallum The Mysteries of Postmodern Epistemology: Stratemeyer, Stine, and Contemporary Mystery for Children; K.Coats Harry Potter and the Mystery of Ordinary Life; C.Routledge Enigma's Variation: The Puzzling Mysteries of Avi, Ellen Raskin, Diana Wynne Jones, and Chris Van Allsburg; A.E.Gavin Index