Contents -- Introduction / Elizabeth Goodenough -- A Symposium on Secret Spaces / Wayne Booth, Paul Brodeur, Frederick Buechner, et al. -- Poetry -- The Secret Speaks / Nancy Willard -- Door / Julie Jordan Hanson -- Fields of Vision / Roald Hoffmann -- Mouse History / Molly McQuade -- On Little Boys and Their Guns / Brad Davis -- A Room in California, 1954 / Laurence Goldstein -- The Children of This Land / Wole Soyinka -- Book of Hours / Cathy Song -- Boy of Sea / Allison Eir Jenks -- Japanese Plums / James Nolan -- La Isla de los Monstros / Virgil Suarez -- Portfolio -- Negotiating Boundaries, Regenerating Ruins: The "Secret Spaces of Childhood" Exhibition / Margaret Price -- An Exhibition of Remembered Hide-Outs: Graphics Portfolio -- Essays -- Peeking through the Curtain: Narratives as the Boundary between Secret and Known / Susan Engel -- Like a Fable, Not a Pretty Picture: Holocaust Representation in Roberto Benigni and Anita Lobel / Adrienne Kertzer -- Children with a Secret / Kathleen Coulborn Faller -- The Camera of Sally Mann and the Spaces of Childhood / James Christen Steward -- Special Place-What Is That? Significant and Secret Spaces in the Lives of Children in a Johannesburg Squatter Camp / Louise Chawla -- PRIVAT (sic) KEEP OUT: The Diary as Secret Space / Joan W. Blos -- Primal Postcards: Madeline as a Secret Space of Ludwig Bemelman's Childhood / Mary Galbraith -- Writing from the Secret Annex: The Case of Anne Frank / Karein K. Goertz -- Memoir -- In the Memory Mines / Diane Ackerman -- The Generosity of Arpeggios and Ravens / Thylias Moss -- My Life among the Dolls -- or How I Became a Radical Feminist Playwright / Carolyn Gage -- Spaces Within: The Portable Interiors of Childhood / U. C. Knoepflmacher -- Children as Observing Critics and Skeptics / Robert Coles -- Fiction -- Telepathy and Other Imitations / Abdon Ubidia.

Satan in All His Glory / Karen Heuler -- Blue Dog in the Crazy Truck / Catherine Ryan Hyde -- Butterfly Meat / Wanda Coleman.