Lissa Paul (Ph.D. York University) is a professor of education at Brock University. She is the author of Reading Otherways (1998), which was a finalist for the F. Harvey Darton Award for historical criticism. Her work on children s literature has appeared in Signal, The Children s Literature Association Quarterly, and The Horn Book, among others, and she is a co-editor of the children s literature journal The Lion and the Unicorn.