Focusing on questions of space and locale in children's literature, this collection explores how metaphorical and physical space can create landscapes of power, knowledge, and identity in texts from the early nineteenth century to the present.

Introduction: Spaces of Power, Places of PlayPart 1 The Spaces Between Children and Adults1 Unstable Metaphors: Symbolic Spaces and Specific Places Peter Hunt2 Speaking the Space between Mother and Child: Sylvia Plath, Julia Kristeva, and the Place of Children's Literature Aneesh BaraiPart 2 Real-World Places3 The Neapolitan Gouache of a Strong-Minded English Lady: 'The Little Merchants' by Maria Edgeworth Francesca Orestano4 Borders, Pachangas, and Chicano/ a Children's Picture Books Renata Morresi5 Sinister Ecology: Space, Environmental Justic, and Belonging in Jenny Robson's Savannah 2116 AD Elzette SteenkampPart 3 Traversing the Imaginary6 English Exploration and Textual Travel in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader Maria Sachiko Cecire7 Mapping the Interior: Place, Self, and Nation in the Dreamhunter Duet Ruth Feingold8 Journeys through Bookland's Imaginative Geography: Pleasure, Pedagogy, and the Child Reader Margot StaffordPart 4 Book Space9 The Story Unfolds: Intertwined Space and Time in the Victorian Children's Panorama Hannah Field10 The Child's Imaginary World: The Spaces of Claude Ponti's Picture Books Catherine RenaudEpilogue: Inside, Outside, Elsewhere Philip Pullman

"This is a very useful addition to children's literature scholarship, with an impressive breadth of material." --Newsletter of the Children's Books History Society"This robust anthology models an international and interdisciplinary conceptual framework for a range of critical fields, including childhood studies, cultural studies, and children’s geographies." --Erin Spring, University of Lethbridge, Alberta, The Lion and the Unicorn