Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Information -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- 1. Difficulties with Dates -- 2. I Suppose You Have Heard ofthe Tom Brown Question? -- 3. Was Ballantyne Really Bothered about Cocoa-Nuts? -- 4. How Often Does Charles Dodgson Appear in the 'Alice' Books? -- 5. What Did Mr March Do in the War Between the States? -- 6. How Long John Silver Lost His Leg and Acquired a Parrot -- 7. The Moon, the French Chef and the Missionary: Textual Revisions by H. Rider Haggard -- 8. How Did Bevis Grow Ten Years in Fifty-Eight Days? -- 9. How Much Gold Was in Pevensey Castle? -- 10. Would Bobbie's Train Have Stopped in Time? -- 11. Did Isabel Archer Meet Mr Toad? -- 12. How Did Mary Get to Misslethwaite Manor? -- 13. Did Beatrix Potter Really Suffer from 'Flu in 1909? -- 14. Why Did Wilfred Owen Change The Little Mermaid in 1909? -- 15. How Many Adults Are There in Winnie-the-Pooh? -- 16. The Strange Disappearance of Europe: Why Didn't Children's Books Notice the Approach of Two World Wars? -- 17. How Old Was the Great Aunt? -- 18. Did John Masefield Ever Meet Hitler or Stalin? -- 19. How Well Did George Orwell Really Know Billy Bunter? -- 20. Some Questions of Authorship -- 21. Exactly How Big Was the Little House in the Big Woods? -- 22. Did Jennings Ever Grow Up or Learn Anything? -- 23. Skating on Thin Ice -- 24. Does Anyone Really Write for Children? -- 25. Did the Line Really Hold? -- 26. The Mayne Incident: Do Writers for Children Have To Be Nicer than Other Writers? -- 27. Who is Killing Cock-Robin? The Mysterious Death of the Children's Book -- Notes -- Back Cover.