The Crossover Novel Contemporary Children's Fiction and Its Adult Readership [Paperback]

Highly recommended by Choice

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 six major British works of crossover fiction, and a wide-ranging analysis of the social and cultural implications of the global crossover phenomenon. A uniquely in-depth study of the crossover novel, Falconer engages with a ground-breaking range of sources, from primary texts, to child and adult reader responses, to cultural and critical theory.

Series Editors Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction A Decade of Border Crossing

Chapter 1 Kiddults at Large

Chapter 2 Harry Potter, Lightness and Death

Chapter 3 Coming of Age in a Fantasy World:

Philip Pullmans His Dark Materials

Chapter 4 Seeing Things Big:

Mark Haddons The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

Chapter 5 Adolescence and Abjection:

Geraldine McCaughreans The White Darkness

Chapter 6 The Search for Roots:

David Almonds Clay

Chapter 7 Re-reading Childhood Books:

C.S. Lewiss The Silver Chair

Conclusion Crossing Thresholds of Time

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Well written and documented, this accessible volume, with its extensive bibliography, will be valuable for those interested in children's literature - highly recommended -- Choice, March 2009

The Crossover Novel is an exhaustively researched and deeply theoretical approach to the phenomenon of crossover literature...provides an excellent groundwork for further study in this arena of children's literature.