Book reviewed in this article:GROWING RESPECTABILITY?: Researching Children's Literature: A Coming of Age?, edited by Neil Broadbent, Anne HoganTHE RIGHT WORDSReading Words: A Commentary on Key Terms in the Teaching of Reading, by Barry Stierer and David Bloome NATE, 1995COOPERATION AND PURPOSEThrough Writing to Reading: Classroom Strategies for Supporting Literacy, by Brigid Smith Routledge, 1995THE SCHOOL AS CITADELOther People's Words: The Cycle of Low Literacy, by VictoriaTRIAL BY OFSTEDEnglish and the OFSTED Experience: Quality in Secondary Schools and Colleges, by Bob Bibby and Barry Wade