Sommario: “...Early experiences of reading / Suzanne Walker -- Learning to read and the TV narrative / Judy Keiner -- Living by fact or fiction / Ralph Lavender -- A fine mess they've got you into Olly / Jeremy Bugler -- Fairy tales and the existential predicament / Bruno Bettelheim -- Some second thoughts on sexism in fairy tales / Heather Lyons -- Out there or where the masons went / Harold Rosen -- Historical novels for children / Anna Davin -- Experience of literacy in working-class life / Peggy Temple -- Oral history in the primary school / Sallie Purkis -- One class and its reading / Margaret Walden -- Introducing the poem áFrustrated virtuoso' by Norman MacCaig / Peter Medway -- Sharing responses to literature / Pat D'Arcy -- An approach to analysis / Elizabeth Grugeon and Liz Cartland -- Comments on traditions of literature teaching / Jeremy Mulford -- Time to get hooked : reading in the middle years / Peter Dean -- Story as an adventure for the teenager / Agnes Finnegan -- The responses of Paula while reading a short story / James R. ...”