Andrea Immel is the Curator of the Cotsen Children’s Library in the Princeton University Department of Rare Books and Special Collections. She contributed chapters to the fifth and sixth volumes of the Cambridge History of the Book in Britain (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2009) and the Oxford Companion to the History of the Book (Oxford Univ. Press, 2010). Immel was also a senior editor of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature (Oxford Univ. Press, 2006) and co-editor of four volumes: (with M. Witmore) Childhood and Children’s Books in Early Modern Europe (Routledge, 2006); (with E. Goodenough) Under Fire: Childhood in Shadow of War (Wayne State Univ. Press, 2008); (with M. O. Grenby) The Cambridge Companion to Children’s Literature (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2009); and (with Emer O’Sullivan) Imagining Sameness and Difference for Children (forthcoming). Her most recent publication was a scholarly facsimile edition of Tommy Thumb’s Pretty Song-Book (Cotsen Occasional Press, 2013), the first collection of English nursery rhymes.

Lissa Paul is Professor in the Faculty of Education at Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. Her most recent monograph, The Children’s Book Business: Lessons from the Long Eighteenth Century, was published in 2011. She is also an Associate General Editor of The Norton Anthology of Children’s Literature (Norton, 2005) and co-editor (with Philip Nel) of Keywords for Children’s Literature (NYU Press, 2011). Children’s Literature and Culture of the First World War (co-edited with Rosemary Rose Johnston and Emma Short) is in press with Routledge. Her current work in progress, a biography, Hunting for Mrs. Fenwick (1766–1840): An Eighteenth-Century Life for the Twenty-First Century, is to be published by the University of Toronto Press.