First published in 1998 , A Guide to Children's Reference Books and Multi Material provides essential information on over 250 children's reference products for parents, teachers and librarians wishing to purchase the best books and multimedia material in the late 90's.

The Child That Haunts Us focuses on the symbolic use of the child archetype through the exploration of miniature characters from the realms of children s literature.

Jung argued that the child archetype should never be mistaken for the real child. In this book Susan Hancock considers how the child is portrayed in literature and fairytale and explores the suggestion from Jung and Bachelard that the symbolic resonance of the miniature is inversely proportionate to its size.

We encounter many instances where the miniature characters are a visibly vulnerable other, yet often these occur in association with images of the supernatural, as the desired or feared object of adult imagination. In The Child That Haunts Us it is emphasised that the treatment by any society, past or present, of its smallest and most vulnerable members is truly revealing of the values it really holds.

This original and sensitive exploration will be of particular interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as academics engaged in Jungian studies, children s literature, childhood studies and those with an interest in socio-cultural constructions of childhood.

First published in 1998 , A Guide to Children's Reference Books and Multi Material provides essential information on over 250 children's reference products for parents, teachers and librarians wishing to purchase the best books and multimedia material in the late 90's.

The Peastick Girl tells the story of Teresa Matheson, her sisters Mollie and Cass, and the untimely and mysterious death of their mother. Teresa has returned to Wellington after five years in Melbourne where she has written a quest novel for younger readers, had two affairs, and met the demon Arkeum. Haunted by childhood memories and visions she is isolated in a house near her family home. What is and what might have been intriguingly converge. She is rescued by the return of Nikolai, her Russian lover. In a remote, seemingly fairytale location she finally stumbles across the truth of her past and finds an ambiguous peace. A sharply focused and often humorous account of New Zealand life-a world of men, Rugby, feminists who feel they've lost their way, Russian emigres and powerful but disaffected Maori women-The Peastick Girl is a complex tragi-comedy of manners. Written in prose of eloquent intensity, this does for New Zealand passions and landscapes the kind of thing the Brontes did for Yorkshire. Chris Wallace-Crabbe, The Age Wellington is as central to this novel as Egdon Heath is to Hardy's Return of the Native... Katherine Mansfield's city has become a wild place dominated by rain, light, wind and sound. Rod Edmond, NZ Studies Network (UK) A brave, sensuous and wildly original novel-I've never read anything quite like it. Helen Garner Hard not to be blown away by this staggeringly beautiful novel. Marion May Campbell