Children's literature abounds with young characters who transform into animal, vegetable, inanimate or monstrous "Others". Adventure Into Otherness - Child metamorphs in late twentieth-century children's literature presents multifaceted readings of these alluring and repelling supernatural events in order to gain a deeper understanding of authors', readers' and critics' fascination with the metamorphic body. Among the increasing number of works written on literary metamorphosis, this is the first booklength study on the motif within children's literature.