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Frame of Reference

From the Editor's Desk

Some thoughts from the editor

Jane Goldstein

Alice's Academy

The Scholar's Section

Elizabeth L. Pandolfo Briggs, editor

What Makes a Classic? Daemons and Dual Audience in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials

Susan R. Bobby

Alice's Academy

The Scholar's Section

Elizabeth L. Pandolfo Briggs, editor

"Liar! Liar! Pants on Fire!" The Liar as Educator in Children's Literature

David LaBounty

Curiouser and Curiouser

Reflection and Reflexion: Female Coming-of-Age: the Mirror Stage and the Absence of Mirrors in Robin McKinley's Beauty and Rose Daughter

Evelyn M. Perry

My Own Invention

Guest Column

Expanding the Child's World Through Lively Interplay with Books

Tom Bruggman

Caucus Race

Jane Goldstein, editor

The memory of Astrid Lindgren honored at a reception at the Embassy of Sweden

Jane Goldstein