and to the ways in which creative literature represents the individual both as subject and as agent. "Language and Ideology in Children's Fiction" examines these matters in narratives written for children, with a special focus on language, since meanings are primarily constituted in language. "Language and Ideology in Children's Fiction" examines various fictional modes, including picture books and historical, realistic and fantastic fictions, ranging from first books up to books for adolescents and drawing examples from Britain, the USA, Australia and New Zealand. It explores the ways in which children's fiction develops relationships between the ideology of text and the position of the individual human subject both as character within narrative and as implied reader.