1st Edition
Lying, Truthtelling, and Storytelling in Children’s and Young Adult Literature Telling It Slant
Introduction
Chapter One: The Whole Truth About Lying
Chapter Two: Children and Lying
Chapter Three: Is Fiction a Pack of Lies?
Chapter Four: Liars in Children’s and Young Adult Literature
Chapter Five: Unreliable Narrators
Chapter Six: Lying and the Künstlerroman, Part One
Chapter Seven: Lying and the Künstlerroman, Part Two
Conclusion
Biography
Anita Tarr is Professor Emeritus of English, Illinois State University. She has co-edited, with Donna R. White, two collections of essays: J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan In and Out of Time: A Children’s Classic at 100 (2006) and Posthumanism in Young Adult Fiction: Finding Humanity in a Posthuman World (2018). She has also published on Robert Cormier, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Virginia Woolf, Thomas Carlyle, Scott O’Dell, Esther Forbes, and children’s poetry.
"Tarr’s lucid language and precise analysis add to its appeal, making it an essential read for both children's literature and YA literature students and researchers alike."
--Prateeti Chowdhury, International Journal of Young Adult Literature, Vol. 5.1
