A Hundred Years of Treasure, or Grime Does Not Pay

An appreciation of R.L. Stevenson's Treasure Island on the occasion of its hundredth anniversary in 1983

The Hidden Meaning and the Inner Tale: Deconstruction and the Interpretation of Fairy Tales

A consideration of how Jacques Derrida's ideas about deconstruction might help to illuminate how fairy tales work

Utopian Grandparents

Review of: Balasubramaniam, Saumiya. When I Found Grandma. Illustrated by Qin Leng, Groundwood, 2019. 32 pp. $17.95 hc. ISBN 9781773060194. Chabbert, Ingrid. A Drop of the Sea. Illustrated by Guridi, Kids Can, 2018. Lê, Minh. Drawn Together. Illustrated by Dan Santat, Disney Hyperion 2018. Sage, James. Old Misery. Illustrated by Russel Ayto, Kids Can, 2018. Uegaki, Cheri. Ojiichan’s Gift. Illustrated by Genevieve Simms, Kids Can, 2019.   DOI: 10.1353/jeu.2019.002

I See by Your Outfit: B Westerns and Some Recent Texts about Cowboys

A review of Roderick McGillis' book about B westerns, and its applications to some recent texts of children's literature

Beyond Politics in Bond's Lear

The relationship of Edward's Bond's play Lear to Shakespeare's King Lea

Children's Literature Canon Comment

A discussion of responses to \"Grand Canon Suite,\" my article on the earlier work of the Children's Literature Association Canon Committee, also available here on Academia.edu