Children's Literature Collections

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Instruction with Delight: Evidence of Children as Readers in Eighteenth-Century Ireland from the Collections of Dublin City Library and Archive

Chapter 3 Irish Children’s Books 1696‒1810: Importation, Exportation and the Beginnings of Irish Children’s Literature

Chapter 4 The Great Famine in Irish History Textbooks, 1900–1971

Chapter 5 The Development of the Irish Immigrant Experience in Irish-American Children’s Literature 1850‒1900

Chapter 6 Time and the Child: The Case of Maria Edgeworth’s Early Lessons

Chapter 8 From Superstition to Enchantment: The Evolution of T. Crofton Croker’s Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland

Chapter 9 ‘Firing for the Hearth’: Storytelling, Landscape and Padraic Colum’s The Big Tree of Bunlahy

Chapter 10 Kildare Place Society and the Beginnings of Formal Education in Ireland

Chapter 11 Homespun Books: Creating an Irish National Children’s Literature

Chapter 12 The Puffin Story Books Phenomenon: Popularization, Canonization and Fantasy, 1941‒1979

Chapter 13 Picturing Possibilities in Children’s Book Collections