Children's Studies: Beginnings and purposes / Gertrud Lenzer -- Hear My Cry: A Manifesto for an Emancipatory Childhood Studies approach to Children's Literature / Mary Galbraith -- Helen Levitt: Childhood as Performance, City as Theater / Ellen Handy -- Writing the Childhood Self: Australian Aboriginal Autobiographies, Memoirs, and Testimonies / Heather Scutter -- Human Rights of Children: An Emerging Story / Marian Koren -- Lunch at the Idea Cafe: The Narration of Metaphor in Children's Lives / Kate Fincke -- "Adult's Literature," By Children / Juliet McMaster -- "I Felt a Funeral in My Brain:" The Fragile Comedy of Charles Schulz / Geraldine DeLuca -- Harry Potter and the Extraordinariness of the Ordinary / Roni Natov