contemporary children's fiction and its adult readership /
Rachel Falconer.
New York :
Routledge,
2009.
xv, 263 pages ;
24 cm.
Children's literature and culture
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-253) and index.
A decade of border crossing -- Kiddults at large -- Harry Potter, lightness and death -- Coming of age in a fantasy world: Philip Pullman's His dark materials -- Seeing things big: Mark Haddon's The curious incident of the dog in the night-time -- Adolescence and abjection: Geraldine McCaughrean's The white darkness -- The search for roots: David Almond's Clay -- Rereading childhood books: C.S. Lewis's The silver chair -- Crossing thresholds of time.
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While crossover books such as Rowling's Harry Potter series have enjoyed enormous sales and media attention, critical analysis of crossover fiction has not kept pace with the growing popularity of this new category of writing and reading. Falconer remedies this lack with close readings of six major British works of crossover fiction, and a wide-ranging analysis of the social and cultural implications of the global crossover phenomenon, engaging with a range of sources, from primary texts, to child and adult reader responses, to cultural and critical theory. --From publisher's description.
Books and reading-- Great Britain-- History-- 21st century.
Children-- Books and reading-- Great Britain-- History-- 21st century.
Children's stories, English-- History and criticism.
English fiction-- 21st century-- History and criticism.