Stepping out into the world : series and internationalism / Young Americans abroad : Jacob Abbott's Rollo on the Grand Tour and nineteenth-century travel series books / Our girls in the family of nations : girls' culture and Empire in Victorian girls' magazines / The Stratemeyer Chums have fun in the Caribbean : American and Empire in children's series / 'A really big theme' : Americanization and world peace -- internationalism and/as nationalism in Lucy Fitch Perkin's Twins series / 'A bit of life actually lived in a foreign land' : internationalism as world friendship in children's series / Lost cities : generic conventions, hidden places, and primitivism in juvenile series mysteries / 'Buy why are you so foreign?' : Blyton and Blighty / 'Universal republic of children?' : 'other' children in Doǧan Kardeş children's periodical / Wizard in translation : linguistic and cultural concerns in Harry Potter / 'Hungry ghosts' : Kirsty Murray's Irish-Australian Children of the Wind series / Building bridges to intercultural understanding : the other in contemporary Irish children's literature