Books:
The Norton Anthology of Children’s Literature (2005). Jack Zipes, General Editor. Lissa Paul and Lynne Vallone. Associate General Editors. Peter Hunt and Gillian Avery, Editors.
Reading Otherways (1998). Stroud: Thimble Press, 1998. American edition published by Calendar Island Press, 1999. Finalist for the F. Harvey Darton criticism award.
Growing with Books: Children's Literature in the Formative Years and Beyond (1988). Ontario: Ministry of Education,. The initial print run of 60,000. Was distributed to all elementary librarians and teachers in Ontario. Content editor and wrote about a third of the text.
Parts of Books
“Feminism Revisited.” International Companion Encylopedia of Children’s Literature. 2nd edition. Routledge. 2004. Reprinted in Understanding Children’s Literature. Second Edition. Ed. Peter Hunt. London: Routledge, 2005: 114-127.
“Beatrix Potter and John Everett Millais: Reproductive Technologies and Coolhunting,” Beatrix Potter’s Peter Rabbit: A Children’s Classic at 100. Ed. Margaret Mackey. Lanham Maryland: The Children’s Literature Association and The Scarecrow Press, 2002: 53-75.
“The Children’s Ted Hughes,” Ted Hughes: Lire New Selected Poems 1957-1994. Ed. Joanny Moulin. Paris: L’Editions du Temps, 1999: 43-53.
“Postmodernism is Over. Something Else is Here. What?” Transcending Boundaries. Ed. Sandra Beckett. New York: Garland, 1999: 239-53.
“Coming to Sing Their Being: The Poetry of Grace Nichols,” Girls Boys Books, Toys: Gender in Children’s Literature and Culture. Eds. Beverly Lyon Clark and Margaret Higonnet. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1999: 83-96.
“From Sex-role Stereotyping to Subjectivity,” International Companion Encyclopedia of Children's Literature. Ed. Peter Hunt. London: Routledge, 1996: 101-112. Reprinted in Understanding Children’s Literature: Key Essays from the International Encyclopaedia of Children’s Literature. Ed. Peter Hunt. London: Routledge, 1999: 112-23.
“Gender Wars,” Reading the Difference: Gender and Reading in Elementary Classrooms. Eds. Myra Barrs and Sue Pigeon. London: Centre for Language in Primary Education, 1993. Subsequently published in the US by Stenhouse and in Canada by Pembroke, 1994: 75-80.
“Intimations of Imitations: Mimesis, Fractal Geometry and Children's Literature,” Literature for Children: Contemporary Criticism. Ed. Peter Hunt. London: Routledge, 1992: 67-77. Reprinted from Signal.
“Enigma Variations: What Feminist Theory Knows about Children's Literature,” Children's Literature: The Development of Criticism. Ed. Peter Hunt. London: Routledge, 1990: 148-65. Reprinted from Signal.
Twentieth Century Children's Writers. London: St. James Press, 1989. Entries on Janet Lunn and Ann Thwaite.
“What Magritte Saw” (poem), The Swift Current Anthology. Eds. Frank Davey and Fred Wah. Toronto: Coach House Press, 1986.
Scholarly Articles
“Sex and the Children’s Book,” The Lion and the Unicorn. April 2005. Invited.
“Writing Poetry for Children is a Curious Occupation,” The Horn Book. May/June 2005: 257-67. Invited
“Are Children’s Book Publishers Changing the Way Children Read? A Pocket History,” Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 28, 3 (Fall 2003): 137-39. Invited
“Celebrating Signal,” The Horn Book (July/August 2003): 431-439. Invited.
“Consuming Passions: Or Why I’m Obsessed with L’Ogresse en Pleurs,” Signal 100 (August 2003): 173-90. Invited.
“Knives,” The Looking-Glass <www.the-looking-glass.net/v7i3/illuminatingtexts2.html>. July 2003. Invited.
“The Man in Black on the Woman in White: Ted Hughes on Emily Dickinson,” Cercles: Revue plus disciplinaires du monde Anglophon. <www.Circles.com>. 2/2001. Invited.
“Boutique Inclusiveness in Literacy Education,” Signal 93 (September 2000): 192-204. This is an updated, revised version of “The Naked Truth About Being Literate,” Language Arts 77. Invited.
“The Return of the Iron Man,” The Horn Book March/April 2000: 218-25. Invited.
“The Naked Truth About Being Literate,” Language Arts 77,4 (March 2000): 335-42. Invited.
“Boy Stories, Girl Stories,” Orbit: OISE/UofT’s Magazine for Schools 30,3 (1999): 8-12. Invited.
