Scarecrow Press
Pages: 152
Trim: 7¼ x 9
978-0-8108-5087-3 • Hardback • July 2006 • $79.00 • (£61.00)
Betty Greenway is Professor of English at Youngstown State University, Ohio, where she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in children's and young adult literature and directs the Center for the Study of Literature for Young Readers (LYRE). She is the author of A Stranger Shore: A Critical Introduction to the Work of Mollie Hunter and Twice-Told Children's Tales: The Influence of Childhood Reading on Writers for Adults.
Part 1 Overture
Part 2 Chronology
Chapter 3 1. The First Steps
Chapter 4 2. The Dance Begins: Breaktime
Chapter 5 3. The Flip Side: Dance on My Grave
Chapter 6 4. A Canticle of Faith: NIK: Now I Know
Chapter 7 5. A Ghostly Fugue: The Toll Bridge
Chapter 8 6. Dance to the Music of Time: Postcards from No Man's Land
Chapter 9 7. The Last Waltz: This Is All: The Pillow Book Of Cordelia Kenn
Part 10 Selected Bibliography
Part 11 Index
Part 12 About the Author
This volume is an excellent choice for British literature students looking for contemporary novels to critique as well as high-quality reading for mature YAs.
— School Library Journal, April 2007
Greenway's treatment of Chambers's fictional work is thorough and insightful....the book provides a thoroughly researched and well-balanced discussion of the six novels that make up Chambers's "Dance Sequence."...The experience of reading this volume leaves the reader with a sense that Chambers's work and life make a coherent whole (not to mention an inspiring story). I recommend this book not only to anyone with an interest in Aidan Chambers's work but also to those more generally interested in contemporary young adult fiction.
— Children's Literature Association Quarterly, Vol. 32, No. 1 (Spring 2007)
In addition to serving as a resource for teachers and librarians, this book would be a good addition to junior and senior high school libraries, particularly if students are given research assignments on the author.
— VOYA, February 2007