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Gospel According to Larry
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The Outsiders
Fade

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The Stinky Cheese Man
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The Stinky Cheese Man

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Secondary Sources and Bibliography

Mackey, M. “Metafiction for Beginners: Allen Ahlberg’s Ten in a Bed.” Children’s Literature in Education 21.3 (1992): 179-187.

McCallum, Robyn. Very Advanced Texts: Metafictions and Experimental Work.” Understanding Children’s Literature. Ed. Peter Hunt. New York: Rutledge (1999) 138-150.

Moss, Anita. Varieties of Children’s Metafiction. Studies in the Literary Imagination 17.2 (1985) 79-92.

Moss, Geoff. “Metafiction and the Poetics of Children’s Literature.” Children's Literature Association Quarterly 15 (1990): 50-52.

Nikolajeva, Maria. The Rhetoric of Character in Children’s Literature. Lanham, Maryland: The Scarecrow Press, 2002.

Nikolajeva, Maria. Children’s Literature Comes of Age. New York: Garland, 1996.

Pennington, John. Alice at the Back of the North Wind, Or the Metafictions of Lewis Carroll and George MacDonald. Extrapolation. 33.1 (1992): 59-72.

Sroka, Kenneth M. Dickens’ Metafiction: Readers and Writers in Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, and Our Mutual Friend. Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian Fiction 22 (1993): 35-66.

Stephens, John. Language and Ideology in Children’s Fiction. New York: Longman, 1992.

Stevenson, Deborah. “‘If You Read This Last Sentence, It Won’t Tell You Anything’: Postmodernism, Self-Referentiality, and The Stinky Cheese Man.” Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 19 (1994): 32-34.

Trites, Roberta Seelinger. Waking Sleeping Beauty: Feminist Voices in Children’s Novels. Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 1997.

Waugh, Patricia. Metafiction: the Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious Fiction. New York Methuen, 1984.

Wall, Barbara. The Narrator’s Voice: The Dilemma of Children’s Fiction. New York: St. Martin’s, 1991.


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