The outdoor baby, out and in of the Book is positioned on the intersection among children’s literature reports and adolescence reports. during this provocative e-book, Christine Wilkie-Stibbs juxtaposes the narratives of literary and genuine children/young adults to discover how Western tradition has imagined, outlined, and handled their outsider prestige – whether orphaned, homeless, refugee, sufferers of abuse, or exploited – and the way strategies of financial, social, or political impoverishment are sustained and naturalized in regimes of energy, authority, and domination.

In 5 chapters titled: "Outsider," "Displaced," "Erased," "Abject," "Unattached," and "Colonized," the publication situates and repositions a variety of pre- and post-millennium children’s/young grownup fictions, autobiographies, coverage files, and stories within the present weather of rabid globalization, new "out-group" definitions, and prescribed normativity. Children’s/young grownup fictions thought of contain: Malorie Blackman’s Noughts and Crosses trilogy; Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the puppy within the Night-Time; Jacqueline Wilson’s The Illustrated Mum; Shyam Selvadurai’s Funny Boy; Ann Provoost’s Falling; Meg Rosoff’s, How I stay Now; Elizabeth Laird’s A Little Piece of Ground. Autobiographical works contain Zlata Filipovic’s Zlata’s Diary; Kevin Lewis’s The Kid; Latifa’s My Forbidden Face; and Valérie Zenatti’s When i used to be a Soldier.