1. Editorial

   EditorialNotes Pages: 4 - 4

2. ‘The Edge of the Cloud’-a reply to Dominic Hibberd

   • Colin Ray

   BriefCommunication Pages: 5 - 6

3. ‘Bred an bawn in a briar-patch’-dialect and colloquial language in children's books

   • Joan Aiken

   OriginalPaper Pages: 7 - 23

4. ‘Stories not history’: The historical novels of Cynthia Harnett

   • Tony Edwards

   OriginalPaper Pages: 24 - 32

5. Time slip, uphill lean, laminar flow, place-to-place talking and hearing the silence

   • Russell Hoban

   OriginalPaper Pages: 33 - 47

6. How children respond to fiction

   • Nicholas Tucker

   OriginalPaper Pages: 48 - 56

7. Aworking list of children's fiction

   Legacy Pages: 57 - 63