Introduction: Deep Structures in Modern Children's Fiction -- Loneliness, Dreaming and Discovery: Tom's Midnight Garden -- Narnia: An Imaginary Land as Container of Moral and Emotional Adventure -- Magic Wishes and the Self Explorations of Children: Five Children and It -- The Life of Dolls: Rumer Godden's Understanding of Children's Imaginative Play -- The Maternal Capacities of a Small Boy: The Indian in the Cupboard -- Animals in Reality and Fantasy: Two Stories by Philippa Pearce -- The Poetic Power of Ordinary Speech: E.B. White's Children's Stories -- Who Believes in 'Borrowers'? -- Making Out in America: The Mouse and His Child -- Inner Implications of Extended Traumas: Carrie's War -- Finding Oneself among Strangers: Three Stories by Paula Fox -- Conclusions: Explorations of Loss -- Postscript: The Inner World of Harry Potter
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Annotation 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
