Charles Butler

Education

University of York; University of London.

Career

Butler"s works include:

Female Replies to Swetnam the Woman-Hater, educated (Thoemmes, 1995)

The Darkling (Orion, 1997)

Timon"s Tide (Orion, 1998)

The Fetch of Mardy Watt (HarperCollins, 2004)

Death of a Ghost (HarperCollins, 2006)

The Lurkers (Usborne, 2006)

Teaching Children"s Fiction, educated (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/ChLA, 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, educated with Ann Alston (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012)

Twisted Winter, educated

(A & C Black, 2013).

Achievements

• 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, and has been reviewed in the standard book review sources, and academic journals,: Another academic work, Teaching Children"s Fiction is in 148 libraries. This book won one of the 2009 Mythopoeic Awards, for Myth and Fantasy Studies.