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First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
List of contents
Introduction “Points of intersection …”; the-influence-of-childhood-reading The Influence of Childhood Reading, Betty Greenway; Part 1 “To drift in the currents of my unconscious …”; Chapter 1 A Child's-Eye Reading of Mark Twain, Madison Smartt Bell; Part 2 The place was full of books …”; Chapter 2 Borges and Georgie, Kimberly A. Nance; Chapter 3 Lonely Impulse of Delight, Dana Gioia; Chapter 4 All the Stuff, Antonya Nelson; Chapter 5 Taking Flight, Ira Sadoff; Chapter 6 Bad Habits, Lee K. Abbott; Part 3 “Wake me up in Wonderland and Whoville and Oz …”; Chapter 7 A Writer on the Yellow Brick Road, Justyna Deszcz-Try Hubczak; Chapter 8 The Pudding, the Witch, and the Titan, Sabina Murray; Chapter 9 Fantastic Fellow-Travelers, X. J. Kennedy; Part 4 “The essential eternal stories …”; Chapter 10 “Grains of Truth in the Wildest Fable”, Christine Butterworth-Mcdermott; Chapter 11 Pictures First, Barry Unsworth; Chapter 12 Essential and Eternal, Penelope Lively; Chapter 13 Silver Chief, John Mcphee; Part 5 “Whose echoes seem ineradicable …”; Chapter 14 Higgledy Piggledy, Gobbledygoo, Luanne Castle; Chapter 15 Corrupting Children, W. D. Snodgrass; Chapter 16 Cuentos, Rudolfo Anaya; Chapter 17 Ineradicable Echoes, Charles Wright; Part 6 “The luminous symbol of innocence …”; Chapter 18 “Wonders Wild and New”, Carolyn Sigler; Chapter 19 Dreamhouse Revisited, Alison Habens; Part 7 “An impossible idealism …”; Chapter 20 Mapping the Soupsweet Land, Hope Howell Hodgkins; Chapter 21 Sheba's Breasts, D.M. Thomas; Chapter 22 E. Nesbit and Primrose Gumming, Maxine Kumin; Part 8 “Recuperated loss …”; Chapter 23 Punch Reads Aunt Judy, Judith A. Plotz; Chapter 24 Three Men in a Boat, Andrei Codrescu; Chapter 25 Cowboys and Poets, C.K. Williams; Part 9 “I could become a writer too …”; Chapter 26 Transmutations of Folktale and School Story in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Jacqueline L. Gmuca; Chapter 27 New Year's Day, Year of the Horse, Maxine Hong Kingston; Part 10 “To wash up on another island of truth …”; Chapter 28 From the Salty Unconscious of the Sea, Sandra Alcosser;
About the author
Betty Greenway is Professor of English at Youngstown State University in Ohio. She teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in children's literature. She is author of A Stranger Shore: A Critical Introduction to the Work of Mollie Hunter.
