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An important and perceptive contribution to the study of children's literature, this welcome reissue includes a new postscript exploring in detail the phenomenal success of J.K.Rowling's series of Harry Potter stories.

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• Preface to the Revised Edition(p. ix)
• Acknowledgements(p. xi)
• Introduction: Deep Structures in Modern Children's Fiction(p. 1)
• 1 Loneliness, Dreaming and Discovery: Tom's Midnight Garden(p. 27)
• 2 Narnia: An Imaginary Land as Container of Moral and Emotional Adventure(p. 40)
• 3 Magic Wishes and the Self Explorations of Children: Five Children and It(p. 59)
• 4 The Life of Dolls: Rumer Godden's Understanding of Children's Imaginative Play(p. 84)
• 5 The Maternal Capacities of a Small Boy: The Indian in the Cupboard(p. 104)
• 6 Animals in Reality and Fantasy: Two Stories by Philippa Pearce(p. 119)
• 7 The Poetic Power of Ordinary Speech: E. B. White's Children's Stories(p. 146)
• 8 Who Believes in 'Borrowers'?(p. 163)
• 9 Making Out in America: The Mouse and His Child(p. 181)
• 10 Inner Implications of Extended Traumas: Carrie's War(p. 196)
• 11 Finding Oneself among Strangers: Three Stories by Paula Fox(p. 215)
• Conclusions: Explorations of Loss(p. 248)
• Notes(p. 256)
• Postscript: The Inner World of Harry Potter(p. 263)
• List of Principal Works Discussed(p. 293)
• Index(p. 295)

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CHOICE Review

The British authors--a child psychologist and a sociologist--bring fresh perspectives to major modern children's classics by Philippa Pearce, Lynne Reid Banks, Nina Bawden, Paula Fox, Rumer Godden, Russell Hoban, C.S. Lewis, E. Nesbit, Mary Norton, and E.B. White. The title, with its tension between separation and reintegration, suggests their focus: how do seemingly naive children's stories reflect the emotional complexities of typical childhood experience, so that they appeal both with an entertaining surface narrative and with deep, powerful emotional resonance? One is reminded of Bruno Bettelheim's Freudian study of fairytale (The Uses of Enchantment, CH, Oct '76), yet the Rustins apply Melanie Klein's psychoanalytic viewpoint with much more persuasive subtlety and insight. There are substantial literary analyses of metaphoric and narrative structure; sociological interpretations are incorporated to reinforce the complexity of the imaginative situation and of the character's struggles to learn and grow. Whereas scholarly journals include numerous psychological studies of individual characters in children's books, this wide-ranging book addresses both particular works and the genre as a whole, raising critical questions about the roles of fantasy and play, of storytelling figures, of the necessity for loss and humility to allow for the enrichment of love. Strongly recommended for literature and child psychology students at graduate and upper-division undergraduate levels and for public libraries building children's collections. C. Rees University of Connecticut

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Margaret Rustin is Consultant Child Psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic, London, Organising Tutor of the Tavistock Child Psychotherapy Training and Head of Child Psychotherapy.
Michael Rustin is Professor of Sociology at the University of East London, and a Visiting Professor at the Tavistock Clinic