COVER; Contents; PREFACE TO THE REVISED EDITION; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Introduction: Deep Structures in Modern Children's Fiction; 1. Loneliness, Dreaming and Discovery: Tom's Midnight Garden; 2. Narnia: An Imaginary Land as Container of Moral and Emotional Adventure; 3. Magic Wishes and the Self Explorations of Children: Five Children and It; 4. The Life of Dolls: Rumer Godden's Understanding of Children's Imaginative Play; 5. The Maternal Capacities of a Small Boy: The Indian in the Cupboard; 6. Animals in Reality and Fantasy: Two Stories by Philippa Pearce
7. The Poetic Power of Ordinary Speech: E.B. White's Children's Stories8. Who Believes in 'Borrowers'?; 9. Making Out in America: The Mouse and His Child; 10. Inner Implications of Extended Traumas: Carrie's War; 11. Finding Oneself among Strangers: Three Stories by Paula Fox; Conclusions: Explorations of Loss; NOTES; POSTSCRIPT: The Inner World of Harry Potter; LIST OF PRINCIPAL WORKS DISCUSSED; INDEX
Summary
An important and perceptive contribution to the study of children's literature, this welcome reissue includes a new postscript exploring in detail the phenomenal success of J.K. Rowling's series of Harry Potter stories
