Articles: The First Word, by Francelia Butler / The Children, the Children!: An Editorial, by James Hillman / Ford Maddox Ford's Fairy Tales, by Alison Lurie / Mr. Ruskin and Miss Greenaway, by Michael Patrick Hearn / The Making of The Home Treasury, by Geoffrey Summerfield / The Development of Consciousness in Lucy Boston's The Children of Green Knowe, by Lynne Rosenthal / Thirst for Enchanted Views in Ruskin's The King of the Golden River, by Jane Merrill Filstrup / The Fantasy World of Russell Hoban, by A. Joan Bowers / A Note on Collodi and Lucian, by Susan Gannon / Magic and Art In Ursula LeGuin's Earthsea Trilogy, by Patricia Dooley / Charlotte's Web: A Lonely Fantasy of Love, by John Griffith / Hyacinths and Biscuits in the Village of Liver and Onions: Sandburg's Rootabaga Stories, by Joanne Lynn / The Four-Part Structure of Bilbo's Education, by William H. Green / Children's Stories: The Link to a Past, by Robert Coles / Child Abuse and the Literature of Childhood, by Leslie FiedlerReviews: Baum's Magic Powder of Life, by Roger Sale / Today's Writers for Children, by Marilyn Apseloff / Domesticity and the Wide, Wide World, by Elizabeth Segel / Notes on American Children's Folklore, by John Cech / Defining Children's Literature, by Perry NodelmanVaria: A Rack of Journals: Research In Children's Literature, by Jim Silverman / Dissertations of Note: Rachel Fordyce / Contributors and Editors