Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Sharing Our Stories: South African Children's Literature in English
- 2 Reading Outside the Lines: Peritext and Authenticity in South African English Children's Books
- 3 San Tales – Again
- 4 Lessons From the Honey-Guide
- 5 Charles Rawden Maclean, Baden-Powell, and Dinuzulu's Beads
- 6 Two English Children's Authors in South Africa: J.R.R. Tolkien and Rudyard Kipling
- 7 The Chronicles of Peach Grove Farm: an Early South African Children's Book by Nellie Fincher
- 8 Is Pauline Smith's Platkops Children a Children's Book?
- 9 The Fall From Grace of Kingsley Fairbridge
- 10 Cigarette Card Albums and Patriotism
- 11 Cecil Shirley, Author and Illustrator of Little Veld Folk
- 12 “Some Far Siding”: South African English Children's Verse in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
- 13 Cross-Cultural Misreadings: Maccann and Maddy's Apartheid and Racism Revisited
- 14 Memories of Social Transition in Southern Africa: Unity Dow and Kagiso Lesego Molope
- 15 Visual Design in Collections of Writing in English by South African Children
- 16 Refugee Stories: the Suitcase Stories and I am an African
- 17 Sources for Research in South African Children's Literature in English
- 18 A Survey of Research in South African Children's Literature
- References
- Glossary
Illustrations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 February 2020
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Sharing Our Stories: South African Children's Literature in English
- 2 Reading Outside the Lines: Peritext and Authenticity in South African English Children's Books
- 3 San Tales – Again
- 4 Lessons From the Honey-Guide
- 5 Charles Rawden Maclean, Baden-Powell, and Dinuzulu's Beads
- 6 Two English Children's Authors in South Africa: J.R.R. Tolkien and Rudyard Kipling
- 7 The Chronicles of Peach Grove Farm: an Early South African Children's Book by Nellie Fincher
- 8 Is Pauline Smith's Platkops Children a Children's Book?
- 9 The Fall From Grace of Kingsley Fairbridge
- 10 Cigarette Card Albums and Patriotism
- 11 Cecil Shirley, Author and Illustrator of Little Veld Folk
- 12 “Some Far Siding”: South African English Children's Verse in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
- 13 Cross-Cultural Misreadings: Maccann and Maddy's Apartheid and Racism Revisited
- 14 Memories of Social Transition in Southern Africa: Unity Dow and Kagiso Lesego Molope
- 15 Visual Design in Collections of Writing in English by South African Children
- 16 Refugee Stories: the Suitcase Stories and I am an African
- 17 Sources for Research in South African Children's Literature in English
- 18 A Survey of Research in South African Children's Literature
- References
- Glossary
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- SeedlingsEnglish Children’sReading and Writers in South Africa, pp. viPublisher: University of South AfricaPrint publication year: 2012