This book will help teachers to understand and engage with children's literacy practices outside school, whilst at the same time developing more traditional school practices of reading and writing.

Introduction, Mary Hilton; Part 1 Ways of looking; Chapter 1 Manufacturing make-believe, Mary Hilton; Chapter 2 Reality in boxes, David Whitley; Part 2 Ways of working; Chapter 3 'Did you know that there's no Such thing as Never Land?', Helen Bromley; Chapter 4 'But they're pink!' - 'Who cares!', Cathy Pompe; Part 3 Ways of helping; Chapter 5 'I Don't Know Where I am with myself', Gill Venn; Chapter 6 'You See all Blood Come Out', Isobel Urquhart*; Epilogue, Mary Hilton;