1. Table of figures; 2. Maps and mapping in children's literature (by Goga, Nina); 3. Part 1. About mapping: Learning to orientate oneself; 4. A cognitive-developmental perspective on maps in children's literature (by Liben, Lynn S.); 5. Mapping the new citizen - Pedagogy of cartophobia: Philanthropic geographies in the late Enlightenment (by Merveldt, Nikola von); 6. A subtle cartography: Navigating the past in children's fiction (by Grafton, Janet); 7. Metaphorical maps in picturebooks (by Kummerling-Meibauer, Bettina); 8. Part 2. Literary shaping of real cityscapes; 9. Mapping a city - Berlin in a contemporary detective novel (by Lowe, Corina); 10. "New York just like I pictured it - skyscrapers and everything" (by Gutierrez, Anna Katrina); 11. Itineraries and maps: Walking as a means of building mobile cartographies in Peter Sis' Madlenka and The Three Golden Keys (by Juan Cantavella, Anna); 12. Bruno Munari's visual mapping of the city of Milan: A historical analysis of the picturebook Nella nebbia di Milano (by Campagnaro, Marnie); 13. Part 3. Fictional seascapes and landscapes; 14. "An island made of water quite surrounded by earth": Mapping out the seascape in nonsense literature (by Holownia, Olga); 15. Connecting worlds: Mapping space-time in three fictional islands (by Nikolajeva, Maria); 16. Mapping illusions: Between the child's fantasy world of Lev Kassil's Schwambrania and the geography of a fledgling Soviet state (by Mikhaylova, Olga); 17. Mapping Middle Earth: A Tolkienian legacy (by Sundmark, Bjorn); 18. Landscapes of growth, faith, and doubt: Mixing and mapping fantasy geography and contemporary political issues (by Goga, Nina); 19. About the editors and contributors; 20. Subject index; 21. Name index

This is a wide-ranging and original exploration of a fascinating and neglected area of children’s literature studies. Its juxtaposition of cognitive theory, cartography, and cultural, political and literary thinking takes us from fact to fiction, from Middle-earth to Milan, from the Enlightenment to contemporary fantasy, from novels to picturebooks. The connections between childhood and children’s books, the mind and the map, and different cultural views of the world demonstrate the value of cross-disciplinary and international collaboration in the rapidly-developing field of cognition and literature.