Acknowledgments

Introduction: Return to Innocence

Gary Westfahl

PART 1 FANTASTIC CHILDREN: OVERVIEWS AND CASE STUDIES

Infant Joys: The Pleasures of Disempowerment in Fantasy and Science Fiction

Eric S. Rabkin

The Humpty Dumpty Effect, or Was the Old Egg Really All It Was Cracked Up to Be: Context and Coming of Age in Science fiction and fantasy

Frances Deutsch Louis

Narrative Users of Little Jewish Girls in Science fiction and Fantasy Stories: Mediating Between Civilization and Its Own Savagery

Susan Kray

The Triumph of Teen-Prop: Terminator II and the End of History

Gary Kern

PART 2 THE CHILDREN OF SCIENCE FICTION

The forever Child: Ender's Game and the Mythic Universe of Science fiction

George Slusser

The Child as Alien

Joseph D. Miller

Baby's Next Step: Uberkinder and the Burden of the future

Howard V. Hendrix

E.T. as Fairy Tale

Andrew Gordon

PART 3 THE CHILDREN OF FANTAST AND HORROR

Child Vision in the Fantasy of George MacDonald

Gay Barton

If Not Today, Then Tomorrow: Fact, faith, and Fantasy in Isaac Bashevis Singer's Autobiographical Writings

Alida Allison

A Real-World Source for the "Little People": A Comparison of Fairies to Individuals with Williams Syndrome

Howard N. Lenhoff

Coming of Age in Fantasyland: The Self-Parenting Child in Walt Disney Animated Films

Lynne Lundquist

Gary Westfahl

Nasty Boys, Feminine Longing, and Mourning the Mother in J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan and Anne Rice's Be Witching Hour

Stephanie Barbe Hammer

Unsealing Sense in The Turn of the Screw

Susan J. Navarette

Getting Things in the Right Order: Stephen King's The Shining, The Stand, and It

Bud Foote

Contributors

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