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In this brilliant new book, Lisa Sainsbury doesn't just think about metaphysics and children's literature; rather, through virtuoso readings of both philosophical and literary texts, she shows how children's literature is always already preoccupied with pressing matters of being and reality. It is just as foundational to our philosophical navigation of the world as to our emotional or psychological development. A deeply informed and exciting study, one that should be required reading for anyone in children's literature or even childhood studies. Highly recommended. * Professor Kenneth Kidd, University of Florida, USA *

Like Moomintroll and Sniff, readers will climb fuzzy lonely mountains to encounter an eclectic range of texts that represent through figurative language and/or evocative illustrations ways of being and might contemplate their own encounters with self and others somewhere between nowhere and nothingness - and they will be enriched by the journey. * English Studies * In this brilliant new book, Lisa Sainsbury doesn't just think about metaphysics and children's literature; rather, through virtuoso readings of both philosophical and literary texts, she shows how children's literature is always already preoccupied with pressing matters of being and reality. It is just as foundational to our philosophical navigation of the world as to our emotional or psychological development. A deeply informed and exciting study, one that should be required reading for anyone in children's literature or even childhood studies. Highly recommended. * Professor Kenneth Kidd, University of Florida, USA *

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Lisa Sainsbury is Director of the National Centre for Research in Children's Literature, University of Roehampton, UK.

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