The New Pioneer Story Book

is taken from Paul C. Misher, 'Communism for Kids: Class, Race and Gender in Communist Books in the United States’, in Anne Lundin and Wayne A. Wiegand (eds.),

Defining Print Culture for Youth: The Cultural Work of Children’s Literature (Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited, 2003), pp. 27-41, p. 31.

Lisa Sainsbury is currently writing a monograph on the relationship between philosophical thinking and children’s literature. She explores aspects of this material in 'A Boy’s Duty: Ethics and Masculinity in B.B.’s

Brendon Chase

and Nina Bawden’s

The Real Plato Jones’ , in Paola Bottala and Monica Santini (eds.),

What Are Little Boys and Girls Made Of? (Padua: Unipress, 2009), pp. 67-85.

For more on the similarities between children, servants, and animals, see Seth Lerer (2008) as above, and Kristina Straub, 'In the Posture of Children’, in Andrea Immel and Michael Witmore (eds.),

Childhood and Children’s Books in Early Modern Europe, 1550-1800 (New York and London: Routledge, 2006), pp. 127-52.

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