Chapter 1 Introduction, Mary Hilton
PART I Handmade Worlds
Chapter 2 Child's Play or Finding the Ephemera of Home, Shirley Brice Heath
Chapter 3 Jane Johnson: A Very Pretty Story to Tell Children, Victor Watson
Chapter 4 Women Teaching Reading to Poor Children in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, Margaret Spufford
PART II 'Some Easy Pleasant Book'
Chapter 5 Samuel Richardson's Aesop[David Whitley
Chapter 6 John Newbery and Tom Telescope, John Rowe Townsend
PART III Women Writing for Children
Chapter 7 'The Cursed Barbauld Crew', Norma Clarke
Chapter 8 Fairy Tales and Their Early Opponents, Nicholas Tucker
Chapter 9 In the Absence of Mrs Leicester, Janet Bottoms
Chapter 10 From the Front Line, Jan Mark
Chapter 11 'Of the Spontaneous Kind'?, Morag Styles
PART IV Learning to Read in School
Chapter 12 The Domestic and the Official Curriculum in Nineteenth-Century England, David Vincent
Chapter 13 'I Knew a Duck', Hilary Minns
Chapter 14 Criminals, Quadrupeds and Stitching up Girls or, Classes and Classrooms in the Ragged Schools, Julia Swindells
PART V 'Configuring a World'
Chapter 15 Configuring a World, Heather Glen