Transcending Boundaries : Writing for a Dual Audience of Children and Adults (Children's Literature and Culture)

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Summary: An engaging, informative collection on writers and writing.
Review: Transcending Boundaries: Writing For A Dual Audience Of Children And Adults is an engaging and informative collection of essays on writers and writing for both juvenile and adult readers around the world. The contributors include Helma van Lierop-Debrauwer (Crossing the Border: Authors Do It, but Do Critics? The Reception of Dual-Readership Authors in the Netherlands); Bettina Kummerling-Meibauer (Crosswriting as a Criterion for Canonicity: The Case of Erich Kastner); Sandra L. Beckett (Crosswriting Child and Adult in France: Children's Fiction for Adults? Adult Fiction for Children? Fiction for All Ages?); Maria Nikolajeva (Children's Adult, Human...?); Zohar Shavit (The Double Attribution of Texts for Children and How It Affects Writing for Children); Carole Scott (Dual Audience in Picturebooks); Roderick McGillis (Ages: All - Readers, Texts, and Intertexts in "The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales"); Larissa Klein Tumanov (Writing for a Dual Audience in the Former Soviet Union); Paula T. Connolly (Crossing Borders from Africa to America); Adrienne Kertzer ("What happened?": The Holocaust Memoirs of Isabella Leitner); John Stephens (Maintaining Distinctions: Realism, Voice, and Subject Position in Australian Young Adult Fiction); Alida Poett (Crossing Borders: Calvino in the Footprints of Collodi); Lena Kareland (Two Crosswriting Authors: Carl Sandburg and Lennart Hell-sing); Lissa Paul (Postmodernism Is Over. Something Else Is here. What?). Highly recommended for personal and academic studies in children's literature, history and criticism, Transcending Boundaries is enhanced for the reader with a selected bibliography, index, and a section of biographical information about the editor and the contributors.