Part 1: Monstrous instructors. My monster ABCs: what can a(bominable snowmen) to z(ombies) teach our kids? / Carla Kungl
Green legs and hands: The Lorax as a medievalist morality tale / Corwin R. Baden
Monsters in the closet: narrative therapy and fairy tales / Lisa LeBlanc and Carla B. Morrissey.
Part 2: Normalization of the "other". "Let the wild rumpus start!" Adventures in acceptance and understanding
Picture books and the other /
"You can't get rid of the babadook": the supertextual supernatural / Lloyd Isaac Vayo
Monsters like us / Gerald Raymond Gordon.
Part 3: Fostering heteronormativity, agency and racial superiority. The scars of Dracula: Count Dracula and the undead meaning in children's early readers / Simon Bacon
Misogyny, monsters and malice: dismantling Troy Cummings' The Notebook of Doom series / Holly A. Wheeler.
Part 4: Evolving Monsters. Ogress, fairy, sorceress, witch: supernatural surrogates and the monstrous mother in variants of "Rapunzel" / Melissa Mullins
Swimming with serpents: dismantling boundaries in sea monsters picture books / Rebecca A. Brown.
Part 5: Monstrous Monsters. The house that Drac built: faith-based qualms about Halloween picture books / Corwin R. Baden
Wicked "Others": Christian conservatism and the rejection of the supernatural / Brenda S. Gardenour Walter.
Part 6: Moral agencies. The fantastic in the everyday growing up with the mysteries of Harris Burdick / Mariaelena Dibenigno
Crossing the threshold: ghosts and haunted houses as moral messengers / Brenda S. Gardenour Walter.
