Rediscoveries in Children's Literature

• Chapter 1 Life at the Squirrel Inn: Frank Stockton's Fairy Tales; Chapter 2 Wild Models of the World: The Lure of the Toy Theater; Chapter 3 The Boy and the Wild Geese: Selma Lagerlöf's Nils; Chapter 4 Empowering the Child: Dorothy Canfield's Made-to-Order Stories; Chapter 5 American Mosaic: Florence Crannell Means; Chapter 6 Deep Valley Revisited: The Betsy-Tacy Stories of Maud Hart Lovelace; Chapter 7 Cat-Child: Two Cat Stories by Beverly Cleary and Ursula Moray Williams; Chapter 8 Beneath the Surface with Fungus the Bogeyman; Chapter 9 Vaccine for Future Shock: Diana Wynne Jones; Epilogue Index;

"Rahn encourages teachers and librarians to go beyond an exclusive and academic approach to children's literature and introduce young readers to a wider variety of good books. Recommended for academic libraries and larger public libraries." -- School Library Journal