Table of contents
Table of figures
VII
Introduction: Maps and mapping in children’s literature
1
Part 1.About mapping: Learning to orientate oneself
Chapter 1.A cognitive-developmental perspective on maps in children’s literature
17
Chapter 2.Mapping the new citizen – Pedagogy of cartophobia: Philanthropic geographies in the late Enlightenment
41
Chapter 3.A subtle cartography: Navigating the past in children’s fiction
59
Chapter 4.Metaphorical maps in picturebooks
75
Part 2.Literary shaping of real cityscapes
Chapter 5.Mapping a city – Berlin in a contemporary detective novel
95
Chapter 6.“New York just like I pictured it – skyscrapers and everything”
113
Chapter 7.Itineraries and maps: Walking as a means to build mobile cartographies in Peter Sís’s The Three Golden Keys and Madlenka
129
Chapter 8.Bruno Munari’s visual mapping of the city of Milan: A historical analysis of the picturebook Nella nebbia di Milano
147
Part 3.Fictional seascapes and landscapes
Chapter 9.“An island made of water quite surrounded by earth”: Mapping out the seascape in nonsense literature
167
Chapter 10.Connecting worlds: Mapping space-time in three fictional islands
185
Chapter 11.Mapping illusions: Between the child’s fantasy world of Lev Kassil’s Schwambrania and the geography of a fledgling Soviet state
203
Chapter 12.Mapping Middle Earth: A Tolkienian legacy
221
Chapter 13.Landscapes of growth, faith, and doubt: Mixing and mapping fantasy geography and contemporary political issues
239
About the editors and contributors
257
Name index
263
Subject index
265
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