Includes bibliographical references (pages 115-127) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: American Children's Literature, the Yellow-Kid Reporter Era, and Artifice -- Carrying the Banner: Horatio Alger, Jr., the Newsboy, and the Paper -- Making News and Faking Truth: Richard Harding Davis, the Reporter, and American Youth -- A Spectacle of Girls: L. Frank Baum, Women Reporters, and the Man Behind the Screen in Early Twentieth-Century America -- Join the Club: African American Children's Literature, Social Change, and the Chicago Defender Junior -- Conclusion: I Want to Know Everything: Harriet the Spy and New Journalism.
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