Series Editor’s Foreword

Acknowledgments

Part I. Introduction

1. Introduction

Kara K. Keeling and Scott T. Pollard

Part II. Reading as Cooking

2. Delicious Supplements: Literary Cookbooks as Additives to Children’s Texts

Jodie Slothower and Jan Susina

Part III. Girls, Mothers, Children

3. Recipe for Reciprocity and Repression: The Politics of Cooking and Consumption in Girls’ Coming-of-Age Literature

Holly Blackford

4. The Apple of her Eye: The Mothering Ideology Fed by Bestselling Trade Picture Books

Lisa Rowe Fraustino

Part IV. Food and the Body

5. Nancy Drew and the "F" Word

Leona W. Fisher

6. To Eat and Be Eaten in Nineteenth-century Children’s Literature

Jacqueline M. Labbe

7. Voracious Appetites: The Construction of "Fatness" in the Boy Hero in English Children’s Literature

Jean Webb

Part V. Global/Multicultural/Post-colonial Food

8. "The Eaters of Everything": Etiquettes of Empire in Kipling’s Narratives of Imperial Boys

Winnie Chan

9. Eating Different, Looking Different: Food in the Asian-American Childhood

Lan Dong

10. The Potato Eaters: Food Collection in Irish Famine Literature for Children

Karen Hill McNamara

11. The Keys to the Kitchen: Cooking and Latina Power in Latin(o) American Children’s Stories

Genny Ballard

12. Sugar or Spice? The Flavor of Gender Self-Identity in an Example of Brazilian Children’s Literature

Richard Vernon

Part VI. Through Food the/a Self

13. Oranges of Paradise: The Orange as Symbol of Escape and Loss in Children’s Literature

James Everett

14. Trials of Taste: Ideological "Food Fights" in Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time

Elizabeth Gargano

15. A Consuming Tradition: Candy and Socio-religious Identity Formation in Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Robert M. Kachur

16. Prevailing Culinary, Psychological, and Metaphysical Conditions: Meatballs and Reality

Martha Satz

17. "The Attack of the Inedible Hunk!": Food, Language, and Power in the Captain Underpants Series

Annette Wannamaker

Contributors

Index

Christopher Newport University, USA