Catherine Butler Explained

Catherine Butler
Birth Name:	Charles Cadman Butler
Birth Date:	1963 1, df=yes
Birth Place:	Romsey, Hampshire, England
Education:	University of London University of York
Occupation:	Reader, Cardiff University

Catherine Butler (born 25 January 1963 in Romsey, Hampshire; formerly Charles Cadman Butler) is an English academic and author of children's fiction.^[1]

Butler's most important academic work, Four British fantasists : place and culture in the children's fantasies of Penelope Lively, Alan Garner, Diana Wynne Jones, and Susan Cooper won the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award (2009) in the Mythopoeic Scholarship category and is in 236 libraries according to WorldCat,^[2] and has been reviewed in the standard book review sources^{[3] [4] [5]} and academic journals.^{[6] [7] [8]} Another academic work, Teaching Children's Fiction is in 148 libraries. Of Butler's fiction, Timon's Tide is the most widely held and reviewed: over 300 libraries & reviews.^{[9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14]} Among her other fiction, Death of a Ghost, The Fetch of Mardy Watt, Calypso Dreaming, The Lurkers, are each in about 100 libraries and with journal reviews.

Other publications

Butler's works include:

• As Charles Butler:
  • Female Replies to Swetnam the Woman-Hater, ed. (Thoemmes, 1995)
  • The Darkling (Orion, 1997)
  • Timon's Tide (Orion, 1998)
  • Calypso Dreaming (HarperCollins, 2002)
  • The Fetch of Mardy Watt (HarperCollins, 2004)
  • Death of a Ghost (HarperCollins, 2006)
  • The Lurkers (Usborne, 2006)
  • Teaching Children's Fiction, ed. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006)
  • Four British Fantasists: Place and Culture in the Children's Fantasies of Penelope Lively, Alan Garner, Diana Wynne Jones, and Susan Cooper (Scarecrow, 2006)
  • Kiss of Death (Barrington Stoke, 2007)
  • Hand of Blood (Barrington Stoke, 2009)
• As Catherine Butler:
  • Reading History in Children's Books, with Hallie O'Donovan (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012)
  • Roald Dahl

A New Casebook, ed. with Ann Alston (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012)

• • Twisted Winter, ed. (A & C Black, 2013)
  • Philip Pullman

A New Casebook, ed. with Tommy Halsdorf (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)

• • Modern Children's Literature: An Introduction, ed. with Kimberley Reynolds (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)
  • Literary Studies Deconstructed: A Polemic, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
  • British Children's Literature in Japanese Culture: Wonderlands and Looking-Glasses, (Bloomsbury, 2023)

External links

• Catherine Butler's Web Site

Notes and References

1. Web site: Charles Butler. 20 March 2010. HarperCollins .
2. Book: Four British fantasists : place and culture in the children's fantasies of Penelope Lively, Alan Garner, Diana Wynne Jones, and Susan Cooper . Worldcat . 607799625 .
3. CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries Dec 2006 v44 i4 p645,
4. School Library Journal Oct 2006 v52 i10 p192
5. Reference & Research Book News August 2006
6. Children's Literature Association Quarterly, 32, no. 3 (2007): 273–275,
7. Children's Literature Annual 2008 v36 p251(6)
8. Marvels & tales. (Wayne State University Press) 21, no. 1, (2007) 172
9. Publishers Weekly 3 July 2000
10. Center for Children's Books Bulletin Sept 2000 v54 p9,
11. Kirkus Reviews 1 June 2000 v68 p792
12. School Library Journal June 2000 v46 i6 p142,
13. School Librarian Summer 1999 v47 p98
14. Voice of Youth Advocates June 2000 v23 p123