1. By way of celebration

   • The UK Editorial Committee

   BriefCommunication Pages: 1 - 3

2. The critical challenge of the world in books for children

   • Margaret Meek

   OriginalPaper Pages: 5 - 23

3. Changing perspectives: The implied reader in Australian Children's Literature, 1841–1994

   • Maurice Saxby

   OriginalPaper Pages: 25 - 38

4. Communities of fictions: Story, format, andThomas the Tank Engine

   • Margaret Mackey

   OriginalPaper Pages: 39 - 51

5. Robert Louis Stevenson and children's play: The contexts ofA child's garden of verses

   • Michael Rosen

   OriginalPaper Pages: 53 - 72

6. Heroic reading

   • Brian Alderson

   OriginalPaper Pages: 73 - 82

7. The adolescent novel of ideas

   • Peter Hollindale

   OriginalPaper Pages: 83 - 95