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Kimberley Reynolds is Professor of Children's Literature at the University of Newcastle. After completing her doctoral research in nineteenth-century juvenile fiction at the University of Sussex, Kim took up a post at what is now the Roehampton University where she and a colleague developed the successful MA in Children's Literature. In 1991 she conceived and established the National Centre for Research in Children's Literature (then called the Children's Literature Research Centre) which, under her direction, was awarded a Queen's Prize for Further and Higher Education 2000-2004. She led 4 national studies of young people's reading habits; the Children's Literature International Summer School, and conceived and obtained funding for the Marsh Award for Children's Literature in Translation. She has organised a number of national and international conferences.

Introduction Radical children's literature and the attempt to rewrite Britain
1: War and peace in radical writing for children
2: Moscow has a plan! Representations of the Soviet Union in radical children's literature
3: Aesthetic radicalism: avant-garde and modernist books for British children
4: Radical ruralism: the transformative power of the landscape
5: Making better Britons: health, fitness, and sex education
6: Rebuilding Britain through radical children's books
Conclusion Radical visions, compromises, and legacies
Appendix Radical children's publications
Bibliography