附註:Collection of essays originally appearing as columns in the Washington post and the Los Angeles times.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-161).
1. A Good Book to Read to a Two Year Old -- (Leslie Brooke, Johnny Crow's Garden) -- 2. Wanda's Wonder-Book -- (Wanda Gag, Millions of Cats) -- 3. The Third Grade Goes to Space -- (Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen, The Magic School Bus, Lost in the Solar System) -- 4. Living Dolls -- (Rumer Godden, The Dolls' House) -- 5. Boy Wants Dog -- (Mary Stolz, A Dog on Barkham Street) -- 6. Nathaniel's Wonder-Book -- (Nathaniel Hawthorne, A Wonder-Book for Boys and Girls and Tanglewood Tales) -- 7. Living Dolls II -- (Mary Norton, The Borrowers) -- 8. A Black Planet -- (Virginia Hamilton, The Planet of Junior Brown) -- 9. The Freedom of the Woods -- (Ernest Thompson Seton, Two Little Savages) -- 10. Living Dolls III -- (T. H. White, Mistress Masham's Repose) -- 11. Three Fine Mice -- (Margery Sharp, The Rescuers) -- 12. Two Magical Books -- (Lucy Boston, The Children of Green Knowe; Edward Eager, Half Magic) -- 13. The Jailbird's Daughter -- (Robert Burch, Queenie Peavey) -- 14. Way Out West in Egypt Land -- (Zilpha Keatley Snyder, The Egypt Game) -- 15. Dear Diary? Delightful Diary! -- (P. L. Travers, I Go by Sea, I Go by Land) -- 16. A Ten Year Old in Hollywood -- (Noel Streatfeild, Movie Shoes) -- 17. The Kids Fight Back -- (Jean Merrill, The Pushcart War) -- 18. A Tale of Two Brothers -- (Laurence Housman, The Rat-Catcher's Daughter and The Golden Sovereign; Lord Brabourne, Tales at Tea-Time; Sylvia Townsend Warner, The Kingdoms of Elfin) -- 19. Many Tales of Three Brothers -- (George W. Dasent, East o' the Sun and West o' the Moon) -- 20. It Is Permitted to Try Again -- (Anne Lindbergh, Nick of Time) -- 21. An Adventure a Day -- (E. Nesbit, The Railway Children) -- 22. The Empty Castle -- (Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle) -- 23. Prince of Deira -- (Lolah Burford, The Vision of Stephen) -- 24. A Strange Voyage -- (Hugh Lofting, The Story of Doctor Dolittle) -- 25. An Animal Epic -- (Richard Adams, Watership Down) -- 26. Last Woman Meets Last Man -- (Robert C. O'Brien, Z
