an essay which most obviously seems in keeping with the book's premise, investigating ways in which child agency is granted and then rescinded by an adult author. Rebecca-Anne Do Rozario's essay on The Bartimaeus Trilogy and The Welkin Weasels argues that children's literature "realign[s] the child as a central figure in order to reverse the power relationship traditional between adult and child, while reflecting upon the relationship of colonizer and colonized" (131). Jon-Paul C. Dyson investigates the creation of children's book awards, with specific reference to the American attempts to socialize children during World War II. Several interesting essays discuss multicultural texts and their socio-political viewpoints: Mijeong Lopez Park's investigation of subtle propaganda in Korean American children's books; Wendy Knepper's examination of Patrick Chamoiseau's fighting of French Imperialism through storytelling; and Sharanya Jayawickrama's assessment of fairy tales "ostensibly written by the children of the Butterfly Peace Garden of Sri Lanka"(xix). Different genres and formats are also remarked upon, with Roni Natov discussing autobiographical picture books, and Laurie N. Taylor arguing that comics and graphic novels "present [...] contextualized arguments about social justice" in a way child readers can understand (256). Ultimately this book provides a number of lively and interesting chapters investigating how adults assert their power in the world of children's literature. Ousley says: "It seems far too dangerous to forgive the con man and his crimes simply because he claims to be a good man -- and none of the "wizards" of the literature of childhood should be