Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction. Children and Books 1
4. Chapter 1. Literacy, Commodities, and Cultural Capital: The Case of Goody Two-Shoes 19
5. Chapter 2. The Literary Property of Childhood: The Case of the ‘‘Babes in the Wood’’ 43
6. Chapter 3. Colonizing Childhood, Placing Cherokee Children 62
7. Chapter 4. ‘‘Selling a Boy’’: Race, Class, and the Literacy Economy of Childhood 89
8. Chapter 5. Children in the Margins 109
9. Chapter 6. Raising ‘‘Master James’’: The Medial Child and Phantasms of Reading 144
10. Coda. Bedtime Stories 171
11. Appendix. ‘‘The Children in the Wood’’ 177
12. Notes 181
13. Bibliography 223
14. Index 239
15. Acknowledgments 245