The narrator's voice: The dilemma of children's fiction

Part 1 Adult writers, children readers talking to children problems of audience. Part 2 Talking to children in the presence of adults: putting adults first male voices female voices. Part 3 Sharing with children: hand-in-hand - a partnership the voice of the ironist the approach of modernity. Part 4 A literature of their own: the 20th century voice putting children first. Part 5 Talking to children in the presence of critics: the fashioning of a reader "Valid for both" the child-centred novel as children see it talking together, playing together the case of Lilli Stubeck.