Catherine Butler
Catherine Butler is an English academic and author of children's fiction.
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 in the Mythopoeic Scholarship category and is in 236 libraries according to WorldCat, and has been reviewed in the standard book review sources and academic journals. 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. 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.Butler's works include:
- As Charles Butler:
- *Female Replies to Swetnam the Woman-Hater, ed.
- *The Darkling
- *Timon's Tide
- *Calypso Dreaming
- *The Fetch of Mardy Watt
- *Death of a Ghost
- *The Lurkers
- *Teaching Children's Fiction, ed.
- *Four British Fantasists: Place and Culture in the Children's Fantasies of Penelope Lively, Alan Garner, Diana Wynne Jones, and Susan Cooper
- *Kiss of Death
- *Hand of Blood
- As Catherine Butler:
- *Reading History in Children's Books, with Hallie O'Donovan
- *Roald Dahl: A New Casebook, ed. with Ann Alston
- *Twisted Winter, ed.
- *Philip Pullman: A New Casebook, ed. with Tommy Halsdorf
- *Modern Children's Literature: An Introduction, ed. with Kimberley Reynolds
- *Literary Studies Deconstructed: A Polemic,
Personal life
Butler is the sister of Martin Butler and the granddaughter of Montagu C. Butler.
