Twice-told children's tales

• Series Editor's

• Foreword

• Acknowledgments

• Introduction: "Points of intersection... "

• "The Influence of Childhood Reading" Betty Greenway

• Part 1
• "To drift in the currents of my unconscious... "

• 1
• A Child's-Eye Reading of Mark Twain

• Part 2
• "The place was full of books... "

• 2
• Borges and Georgie: Childhood Reading, Adult Writing, and the Shape of the Latin American Fantastic

• 3
• A Lonely Impulse of Delight: One Reader's Childhood

• 4
• All the Stuff

• 5
• Taking Flight: A Retrospect on Booking Passage

• 6
• Bad Habits

• Part 3
• "Wake me up in Wonderland and Whoville and Oz... "

• 7
• A Writer on the Yellow Brick Road: Salman Rushdie's Ozian Inspirations

• 8
• The Pudding, the Witch, and the Titan

• 9
• Fantastic Fellow-Travelers

• Part 4
• "The essential eternal stories... "

• 10
• "Grains of Truth in the Wildest Fable": "Beauty and the Beast" Retold as Jane Eyre

• 11
• Pictures First

• 12
• Essential and Eternal

• 13
• Silver Chief

• Part 5
• "Whose echoes seem ineradicable... "

• 14
• Higgledy Piggledy, Gobbledygoo: The Rotted Residue of Nursery Rhyme in Sylvia Plath's Poetry

• 15
• Corrupting Children

• 16
• Cuentos

• 17
• Ineradicable Echoes

• Part 6
• "The luminous symbol of innocence... "

• 18
• "Wonders Wild and New": Lewis Carroll's Alice Books and Postmodern Women Writers

• 19
• Dreamhouse Revisited

• Part 7
• "An impossible idealism... "

• 20
• Mapping the Soupsweet Land: King Solomon's Mines in Graham Greene's The Heart of the Matter

• 21
• Sheba's Breasts

• 22
• E. Nesbit and Primrose Cumming

• Part 8
• "Recuperated loss... "

• 23
• Punch Reads Aunt Judy: Kipling, Ewing, and the Uses of Children's Literature

• 24
• Three Men in a Boat

• 25
• Cowboys and Poets

• Part 9
• "I could become a writer too... "

• 26
• Transmutations of Folktale and School Story in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

• 27
• Dear Jade Snow

• Part 10
• "To wash up on another island of truth... "

• 28
• From the Salty Unconscious of the Sea

• Contributors'

• Notes

• Index