A child's-eye reading of Mark Twain / Madison Smartt Bell -- Borges and Georgie : childhood reading, adult writing, and the shape of the Latin American fantastic / Kimberly A. Nance -- A lonely impulse of delight : one reader's childhood / Dana Gioia -- All the stuff / Antonya Nelson -- Taking flight : a retrospect on booking passage / Ira Sadoff -- Bad habits / Lee K. Abbott -- A writer on the yellow brick road : Salman Rushdie's Ozian inspirations / Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak -- The pudding, the witch, and the titan / Sabina Murray -- Fantastic fellow-travelers / X.J. Kennedy -- Grains of truth in the wildest fable : "Beauty and the beast" retold as Jane Eyre / Christine Butterworth-McDermott -- Pictures first / Barry Unsworth -- Essential and eternal / Penelope Lively -- Silver chief / John McPhee -- Higgledy piggledy, gobbledygoo : the rotted residue of nursery rhyme in Sylvia Plath's poetry / Luanne Castle -- Corrupting children / W.D. Snodgrass -- Cuentos / Rudolfo Anaya -- Ineradicable echoes / Charles Wright -- Wonders wild and new : Lewis Carroll's Alice books and postmodern women writers / Carolyn Sigler -- Dreamhouse revisited / Alison Habens -- Mapping the soupsweet land : King Solomon's Mines in Graham Greene's The heart of the matter / Hope Howell Hodgkins -- Sheba's breasts / D.M. Thomas -- E. Nesbit and Primrose Cumming / Maxine Kumin -- Punch reads Aunt Judy : Kipling, Ewing, and the uses of children's literature / Judith A. Plotz -- Three men in a boat / Andrei Codrescu -- Cowboys and poets / C.K. Williams -- Transmutations of folktale and school story in A portrait of the artist as a young man / Jacqueline L. Gmuca -- Dear Jade Snow / Maxine Hong Kingston -- From the salty unconscious of the sea / Sandra Alcosser.