Strange pilgrimages: Cinderella was a trickster-and other unorthodoxies of American and African-American heroic folk figures / Nina Mikkelsen
Rides of passage: female heroes in pony stories / Alison Haymonds
Girls' own stories: good citizenship and girls in British postwar popular culture / Deborah Philips
More than crime on her mind: Nancy Drew as woman hero / Linda K. Christian-Smith
Reconstructing Robin Hood: ideology, popular film, and television / Dudley Jones
Biggles, hero of the air / Dennis Butts
Piloting the nation: Dan Dare and the 1950s / Tony Watkins
Golden boys and golden memories: fiction, ideology, and reality in Roy of the rovers and the death of the hero
Alan Tomlinson and Christopher Young
Heroines of empire: British imperialism and the reproduction of femininity in girls' fiction, 1900-1930 / J.S. Bratton
"Get ready for action!" reading action man toys / Jonathan Bignell
Spider-Man: an enduring legend / C.M. Stephens
Children and popular culture: the case of turtle power / David Lusted
Peter Pan: flawed or fledgling "hero"? / Chris Routh
Dahl, the marvellous boy / Catriona Nicholson
Visionary children and child-like heroes: Steven Spielberg's "primal sympathy" / Douglas Brode
Unbronzing the Aussie: heroes and SNAGs in fiction and television for Australian adolescents / Robyn McCallum and John Stephens
Producing the national imaginary: Doctor Who, text and genre / John Tulloch.