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Author Falconer, Rachel.

Title The crossover novel : contemporary children's fiction and its adult readership / Rachel Falconer
Published New York : Routledge, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 263 pages)
Series Children's literature and culture
Children's literature and culture.
Contents Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Series Editor's Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: A Decade of Border Crossing; Chapter One: Kiddults at Large; Chapter Two: Harry Potter, Lightness and Death; Chapter Three: Coming of Age in a Fantasy World: Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials; Chapter Four: Seeing Things Big: Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time; Chapter Five: Adolescence and Abjection: Geraldine McCaughrean's The White Darkness; Chapter Six: The Search for Roots: David Almond's Clay
Summary While crossover books such as Rowling's Harry Potter series have enjoyed enormous sales and media attention, critical analysis of crossover fiction has not kept pace with the growing popularity of this new category of writing and reading. Falconer remedies this lack with close readings of eight works of crossover fiction
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-253) and index
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Subject Children's stories, English -- History and criticism
English fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism
Children -- Books and reading -- Great Britain -- History -- 21st century
Books and reading -- Great Britain -- History -- 21st century
Reading interests -- Great Britain
Books and reading.
Children -- Books and reading.
Children's stories, English.
English fiction.
Reading interests.
Great Britain.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780203892176
0203892178