1. Editorial note

   EditorialNotes Pages: 3 - 3

2. Detective imagination

   • Michael Benton

   OriginalPaper Pages: 5 - 12

3. The awkward ages, or what shall we tell the children?

   • Fred Inglis

   OriginalPaper Pages: 13 - 34

4. Getting used to things as they are: Nina Bawden as a children's novelist

   • Nicholas Tucker

   OriginalPaper Pages: 35 - 44

5. The perils of the imagination: pre-Victorian children's literature and the critics

   • Margaret Maxwell

   OriginalPaper Pages: 45 - 52

6. From ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ to ‘Wild in the World’

   • David F Sadler

   OriginalPaper Pages: 53 - 67

7. Travelling in time—towards a project

   • Anne Taylor

   OriginalPaper Pages: 68 - 80