Съдържание:
  • 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.