Life at the Squirrel Inn: Frank Stockton's fairy tales -- Wild models of the world: the lure of the toy theater -- The boy and the wild geese: Selma Lagerlöf's Nils -- Empowering the child: Dorothy Canfield's Made-to-order stories -- American mosaic: Florence Crannell Means -- Deep Valley revisited: the Betsy-Tacy stories of Maud Hart Lovelace -- Cat-child: two cat stories by Beverly Cleary and Ursula Moray Williams -- Beneath the surface with Fungus the bogeyman -- A vaccine for future shock: Diana Wynne Jones