Index
Abanindrath 800
Abbott, Jacob 340
Abd, Abdullah 782
Abrams, M.H. 67–2
Al-Abrashi 781
Absar, Abdul Ali 808
Abu Dhabi 782
academics 8–12;
and collections 538;
feminism 104
Achebe, Chinua 660, 780, 789
Acres, Avid 845
Action (comic) 247–2
Adam, Jeanie 833
Adam, Ruth 523
Adams, Richard 553;
Watership Down 289
Adams, William Taylor 470, 863
adolescents 382–96;
assumptions about reading 575–5;
developmental stages of reading 575–93,
576–90;
empathy 580;
engaging 7;
family relationships 386–3;
friendships 388–4;
happiness-binding 73;
issues of development 61;
perceived boredom 579–8;
pregnancy 386;
school stories 353–8;
sexuality and love 383–91;
six stages of response 73;
social problems 390–6;
teaching to question text 584–3
adoption and adaption 416–31;
adventure stories 417–4;
common cultural pool 418–5;
criteria for differentiating 417;
genre fiction 419–7;
mediation and adaption 422–31
adults
see also authors:
as audience 15;
colonisation of children 116;
imbalanced power relationship 128
adventure stories:
adopted by children 417–4;
folk elements 328;
the genre 326–4;
historical 366;
origins 322–30;
ponies 356;
Robinsonnades 322–7, 324;
science fiction 332;
Scotland 680;
twentieth century 330–7
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Twain) 470–9,
865
Aesop’s Fables 138, 157, 230, 278, 752;
early translations 405;
Richardson’s translation 407
Afanasyev, Aleksandr 756
Africa:
book design 661, 662;
cultural differences 659–9, 792;
English-speaking 786–791;
French-speaking 791–4;
journals 487;
languages 649;
storytelling 531–40
Agard, John 200, 879
age groups
see also adolescents:882