Dr Catherine Butler

2024

• Butler, C. 2024. Heard but not seen: Gardens and their child ghosts in Rudyard Kipling, T. S. Eliot and Lucy M. Boston. Modernist Cultures 19

2023

• Butler, C. 2023. British Children's Literature in Japanese Culture: Wonderlands and Looking-Glasses. [British Children's Literature in Japanese Culture: Wonderlands and Looking-Glasses]. Bloomsbury Perspectives on Children's Literature. London: Bloomsbury.

2021

• Butler, C. 2021. The Green Knowe books - a patchwork of genres. In: Watson, V. et al. eds. Lucy Boston: An Artist in Everything She Did. Cambridge: Oldknow Books, pp. 37-52.
• Butler, C. 2021. Lost futures: reading, memory and repression. International Research in Children's Literature 14(2), pp. 156-168. (10.3366/ircl.2021.0394)

2020

• Butler, C. 2020. Children's literature research in a world of Coronavirus. Japan Society for Children's Literature in English Newsletter 2020(Autumn), pp. 8-13.
• Butler, C. 2020. Japan reads the Cotswolds: Tourism, children’s literature and the Japanese imagination. Children's Literature 48, pp. 198-233. (10.1353/chl.2020.0008)
• Butler, C. 2020. The Cotswolds and children’s literature in Japanese fantasy: the case of Castle Combe. In: Seaton, P. and Yamamura, T. eds. Contents Tourism and Pop Culture Fandom: Transnational Tourist Experiences. Channel View Publications
• Butler, C. 2020. Portraying trans people in children’s and young adult literature: problems and challenges. Journal of Literary Education 3, pp. 10-24. (10.7203/JLE.3.15992)

2019

• Butler, C. 2019. Shoujo versus Seinen? Address and reception in Puella Magi Madoka Magica (2011). Children's Literature in Education 50, pp. 400-416. (10.1007/s10583-018-9355-9)
• Butler, C. 2019. Arrietty comes home: Studio Ghibli's The Borrower Arrietty and its English-language dubs. Annals of The Institute for Comparative Studies of Culture 80, pp. 57-71.

2018

• Butler, C. 2018. Literary studies deconstructed: A polemic. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. (10.1007/978-3-319-90475-7)

2017

• Butler, C. 2017. Counterfactual historical fiction for children and young adults. In: Beauvais, C. and Nikolajeva, M. eds. The Edinburgh Companion to Children's Literature. Edinburgh Companions to Literature Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 179-193.
• Butler, C. 2017. Children's literature: Ideologies of the past, present and future. In: Hanson, C. and Watkins, S. eds. The History of British Women's Writing, 1945-75., Vol. 9. London, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan

2015

• Butler, C. 2015. Diana Wynne Jones and Bristol. In: Mulvey-Roberts, M. ed. Literary Bristol: Writers and the City. Bristol: Redcliffe Press, pp. 179-195.
• Butler, C. 2015. Margaret Mahy: librarian of Babel. Lion and the Unicorn 39(2), pp. 129-145. (10.1353/uni.2015.0014)
• Butler, C. 2015. The "Grand Tour" as transformative experience in children's novels about the Roman invasion. In: Maurice, L. ed. The Reception of Ancient Greece and Rome in Children's Literature: Heroes and Eagles. Brill, pp. 259-279.

2014

• Reynolds, K. and Butler, C. eds. 2014. Modern children’s literature: an introduction. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Butler, C. 2014. Enchanting places: readers and pilgrimage in the novels of Diana Wynne Jones. Strange Horizons 2014(27 Oct)
• Butler, C. 2014. Plato’s Orpheus [poem]. Strange Horizons 2014(6 Oct)
• Butler, C. 2014. Want to save the United Kingdom? Move the capital to Glasgow [Newspaper Article]. The Guardian 2014(19 Jn)
• Butler, C. and Halsdorf, T. eds. 2014. Philip Pullman. New Casebooks. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Butler, C. 2014. Taking Children’s Literature seriously. The Author CXXV, pp. 126-127.

2013

• Butler, C. 2013. Tolkien and worldbuilding. In: Hunt, P. ed. Tolkien and Children’s Fiction: A New Casebook. New Casebooks Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 106-120.
• Butler, C. ed. 2013. Twisted winter. Quicksilver. A & C Black Childrens & Educational.
• Butler, C. 2013. Critiquing calypso: authorial and academic bias in the reading of a young adult novel. Children's Literature in Education 44(3), pp. 264-279. (10.1007/s10583-012-9189-9)
• Butler, C. 2013. La Fantasy pour la jeunesse dans les iles britanniques. La Revue des Livres Pour Enfants, pp. 104-109.
• Butler, C. 2013. Introduction. In: Butler, C. ed. Twisted Winter. Quicksilver A & C Black Childrens & Educational, pp. 7-10.
• Butler, C. 2013. A dog is for life. In: Butler, C. ed. Twisted Winter. Quicksilver A&C Black Childrens & Educational, pp. 103-119.

2012

• Alston, A. and Butler, C. eds. 2012. Roald Dahl. New Casebooks. Basingstoke: Palgrave.
• Butler, C. and O'Donovan, H. 2012. Reading history in children's books. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Butler, C. 2012. Reflecting on Reflections. In: Jones, D. W. ed. Reflections: On the Magic of Writing. Oxford: David Fickling Books, pp. ix-xviii.
• Butler, C. 2012. A conversation with Diana Wynne Jones. In: Jones, D. W. ed. Reflections: On the Magic of Writing. Oxford: David Fickling Books, pp. 255-279.
• Butler, C. 2012. Modern children’s fantasy. In: James, E. and Mendlesohn, F. eds. The Cambridge Companion to Fantasy Literature. Cambridge Companions to Literature Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 224-235.
• Butler, C. 2012. Introduction. In: Alston, A. and Butler, C. eds. Roald Dahl: A New Casebook. New Casebooks Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1-13.

2011

• Butler, C. 2011. Psychological approaches to children’s literature. In: Grenby, M. O. and Reynolds, K. eds. Children's Literature Studies: A Research Handbook. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 171-177.
• Butler, C. 2011. Postmodernism. In: Grenby, M. O. and Reynolds, K. eds. Children's Literature Studies: A Research Handbook. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 178-184.
• Butler, C. 2011. Film adaptation: the case of The Secret Garden. In: Grenby, M. O. and Reynolds, K. eds. Children's Literature Studies: A Research Handbook. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 195-205.

2010

• O’Donovan, H., Kincaid Speller, M. and Butler, C. 2010. Diana Wynne Jones. Special issue of Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts. Vol. 21, No. 2. International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts.

2009

• Butler, C. 2009. Hand of blood. Gr8reads. Edinburgh: Barrington Stoke.
• Butler, C. 2009. Experimental girls: feminist and transgender discourses in Bill’s New Frock and Marvin Redpost: Is He a Girl?. Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 34(1), pp. 1-20. (10.1353/chq.0.1889)
• Butler, C. 2009. The learning and teaching of children’s literature in Europe. Project Report. [Online]. Bristol: Education, Audiovisual & Culture Executive Agency. Available at: http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/llp/project_reports/documents/comenius/all/com_mp_503589_ltcl.pdf
• Butler, C. 2009. Children of the stones: prehistoric sites in British children’s fantasy, 1965-2005. In: Parker, J. ed. Written on Stone: The Cultural Reception of Prehistoric Monuments. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, pp. 143-154.

2008

• Butler, C. 2008. After the Inklings. In: Wells, S. ed. The Ring Goes Ever on - Proceedings of the Tolkien 2005 Conference: v. 1&2: 50 Years of The Lord of the Rings., Vol. 1. Coventry: The Tolkien Society, pp. 238-242.

2007

• Butler, C. 2007. Holiday work: on writing for children and for the academy. Children’s Literature in Education 38(3), pp. 163-172. (10.1007/s10583-007-9042-8)
• Butler, C. 2007. Kiss of death. Gr8reads. Edinburgh: Barrington Stoke.

2006

• Butler, C. 2006. The Lurkers. London: Usborne.
• Butler, C. 2006. Four British fantasists: place and culture in the children’s fantasies of Penelope Lively, Alan Garner, Susan Cooper, and Diana Wynne Jones. Lanham: Children's Literature Association and Scarecrow Press.
• Butler, C. ed. 2006. Teaching children's fiction. Teaching the new English. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Butler, C. 2006. Introduction. In: Butler, C. ed. Teaching Children’s Fiction. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1-15.
• Butler, C. 2006. Death of a ghost. London: HarperCollins Children's.

2005

• Butler, C. 2005. “You are feeling very sleepy…”: hypnosis, enchantment and mind-control in children’s fiction. In: Moody, N. and Horrocks, C. eds. Children’s Fantasy Fiction: Debates for the Twenty-First Century. Liverpool John Moores University and the Association for Research in Popular Fictions, pp. 175-190.

2004

• Butler, C. 2004. The fetch of Mardy Watt. London: Collins Voyager.

2002

• Butler, C. 2002. “Now here: where now?” Magic as reality and as metaphor in the work of Diana Wynne Jones. In: Rosenberg, T. et al. eds. Diana Wynne Jones: An Exciting and Exacting Wisdom. Peter Lang, pp. 66-78.
• Butler, C. 2002. An Interview with Diana Wynne Jones. In: Rosenberg, T. et al. eds. Diana Wynne Jones: An Exciting and Exacting Wisdom. Peter Lang, pp. 163-172.
• Butler, C. 2002. Calypso dreaming. London: Collins Voyager.

2001

• Butler, C. 2001. Alan Garner’s Red Shift and the shifting ballad of “Tam Lin”. Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 26(2), pp. 74-83. (10.1353/chq.0.1604)

1998

• Butler, C. 1998. Timon’s tide. A Dolphin paperback. London: Orion Children's.

1997

• Butler, C. 1997. The Darkling. London: Orion Children's Books.
• Butler, C. 1997. The stagirite and the scarecrow: stanza 3 of Cowley’s ode “to the royal society” (1667). Restoration 21, pp. 1-14.

1996

• Butler, C. ed. 1996. Female replies to Swetnam the woman-hater. For Her Own Good: A Series of Conduct Books. Bristol: Thoemmes Press.

1995

• Butler, C. 1995. Introduction. In: Butler, C. ed. Female Replies to Swetnam the Woman-Hater.. For Her Own Good: A Series of Conduct Books Thoemmes Continuum, pp. v-xli.

1993

• Butler, C. 1993. Integrating computing into the history curriculum. History and Computing 5, pp. 199-203.