Sue Walsh is a Lecturer on the MA/MRes in Children’s Literature under the aegis of CIRCL (Centre for International Research in Childhood) at the University of Reading since 2002. Her publications include her monograph, Kipling’s Children’s Literature: Language, Identity and Constructions of Childhood (2010), and chapters and articles on constructions of the animal and child, irony and childhood, the gothic and childhood, and children’s literature and (auto-)biography. Her current research interests are centred around Nigerian Literature, and in particular on Heinemann Educational Books’ publication of the African Writers Series and associated other series that focused on producing literature for African schools.