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Introduction  1. Picture Books that Transcend Boundaries  Sandra L. Beckett  2. Belief and Unbelief: Inscriptions of Religion and Cultural Identity   Valerie Coghlan  3. Contemplating Otherness in Speculative Fiction   Patricia Kennon  4. Child’s Play: The Child and the Nation   Jarlath Kileen  5. Walking into the Night: Growing up with the Gothic  Anne Markey  6. ‘The past is gone anyway’: The importance of Memory and History  Sharon Murphy  7. Mythologizing the Present  Ciara Ní Bhroin  8. Location, Location, Location: The Significance of Place  Eilís Ní Dhuibne  9. Insularity and Internationalism: Between Local Production and the Global Marketplace  Emer O’Sullivan  10. Linguistic and Narratological Representations of Selfhood  Keith O’Sullivan  11. Family Amanda Piesse  12. Meanings and Means: Children's Poetry  Mary Shine Thompson  13. The Irish Call of Aladdin: "New Tales for Old!"  Máire Uí Mhaicín  14. Coming of Age and Youth Culture  Pádraic Whyte