Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Pádraic Whyte and Keith O'Sullivan 1. Instruction with Delight: Evidence of Children as Readers in Eighteenth-Century Ireland from the Collections of Dublin City Library and Archive Máire Kennedy 2. Irish Children's Books 16961810: Importation, Exportation and the Beginnings of Irish Children's Literature Anne Markey 3. The Great Famine in Irish History Textbooks, 1900-1971 Ciara Boylan 4. The Development of the Irish Immigrant Experience in Irish-American Children's Literature 18501900 Ciara Gallagher 5. Time and the Child: The Case of Maria Edgeworth's Early Lessons Aileen Douglas 6. Picking Grandmamma's Pockets Jarlath Killeen and Marion Durnin 7. From Superstition to Enchantment: The Evolution of T.

Crofton Croker's Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland Ciara Ní Bhroin 8. 'Firing for the Hearth': Storytelling, Landscape and Padraic Colum's The Big Tree of Bunlahy Pádraic Whyte 9. Kildare Place Society and the Beginnings of Formal Education in Ireland Susan M. Parkes 10. Homespun Books: Creating an Irish National Children's Literature Julie Anne Stevens < 11. The Puffin Story Books Phenomenon: Popularization, Canonization and Fantasy, 19411979 Keith O'Sullivan 12. Picturing Possibilities in Children's Book Collections Valerie Coghlan Biographical Notes Index.