1: Magic, Spels and Gramarye 2: The Twenty-First-Century Australian Context: Educating Rita-and Mehmet and Alinga and Chinh and 3: Creative, Organic Pedagogies and Deep Literacy 4: The Centrality of Story 5: Interrelationships: Language, Literacy, Literature 6: Narrative Patterns: Narrator, Plot, Characters, Setting and Themes 7: The World that Creates-and Recreates-the Text 8: Indigenous Storytelling 9: Romance and Realism and the Spaces Between: Fantasy and Fairytales, Contemporary and Historical Realism and Social Issues 10: The Picturebook Genre: Semiotics, Semantics and Style 11: Cross-curriculum: Australia and Asia-Sharing Stories and Global Citizenship 12: Towards a Poetics of Australian Children's Literature