Volume 1 - Introduction: Matthew Arnold, a teddy bear, and a list of touchstones / Perry Nodelman -- Louisa May Alcott's Little Women: Who is still reading Miss Alcott and why / Ruth MacDonald -- Lloyd Alexander's Chronicles of Prydain: the nature of beginnings / Jon C. Stott -- Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden: the organ (ic)ized world / Heather Murray -- Lewis Carroll's Alice books: The Wonder of Wonderland / Beverly Lyon Clark -- Carlo Collodi's The Adventures of Pinocchio: A Classic book of choices / Richard Wunderlich and Thomas J. Morrisey -- Eleanor Estes' The Moffats: Through Colored Glass / Louisa Smith -- Louise Fitzhugh's Harriet the Spy: Nonsense and Sense / Hamida Bosmajian -- Esther Forbes' Johnny Tremain: Authentic History, Classic Fiction / M. Sarah Smedman -- Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows: A Companionable Vitality / Neil Philip -- Irene Hunt's Across Five Aprils: Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide / Janice M. Alberghene -- Kipling's Mowgli and Just So Stories: The Vine of Fact and Fantasy / Celia Catlett Anderson -- Madeline L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time: Seeking the Original Face / William Blackburn -- C.S. Lewis' Narnia Books: The Reader in the Myth / Murray Evans --
George MacDonald's Princess Books: High Seriousness / Roderick McGillis
Milne's Pooh Books: The Benevolent Forest / Anita Wilson
L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables: The Architect of Adolescence / Mary Rubio
E. Nesbit's The Story of the Treasure Seekers: The Idiom of Childhood / Anita Moss
Mary Norton's The Borrowers: Diaspora in Miniature / Lois R. Kuznets
Robert C. O'Brien's Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH: Through the Eyes of Small Animals / Alethea K. Helbig
Philippa Pearce's Tom's Midnight Garden: Finding and Losing Eden / Raymond E. Jones
Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons: Escape to a Lost Paradise / Peter Hunt
Johanna Spyri's Heidi: The Conversion of a Byronic Hero / Malcolm Usrey
Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island: The Ideal Fable / Susan Gannon
J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit: The Magic of Words / C.W. Sullivan III
Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: More Than a Warm-Up / Francis Molson
E.B. White's Charlotte's Web: Caught in the Web / Sonia Landes
T.H. White's The Sword in the Stone: Education and the Child Reader / Adrienne Kertzer
Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House Books: A Personal Story / Virginia L. Wolf
The Touchstones in the Classroom / Mary Ake.
Volume 2 - Introduction: A Recycling of Glorious Garbage / Perry Nodelman
Aesop's Fables: Beyond Morals / Joanne Lynn
Han Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales and Stories: Secrets, Swans, and Shadows / John Cech
Asbjornsen and Moe's Norwegian Folk Tales: Voice and Vision / Kay Unruh Desroches
Richard Chase's Jack Tales: A Trickster in the New World / Nina Mikkelsen
Padraic Colum's The Children's Homer: The Myth Reborn / Yancy Barton
Padraic Colum's The Golden Fleece: The Lost Goddesses / Nancy Huse
The Norse Myths and the D'Aulaire's Norse Gods and Giants: Patterns of Paradox / Caroline Goforth
The Poetry of Walter de la Mare: Sweet-Tongued Words / Norma Bagnall
Dunning, Lueders and Smith's Reflections on a Gift of Watermelon Pickle: A Watershed in Poetry for the Young / Alethea Helbig
The Tales of the Brothers Grimm: In the Black Forest / Joyce Thomas
Joel Chandler Harris' Tales of Uncle Remus: For Mixed Audiences / Hugh T. Keenan
Joseph Jacobs' English Fairy Tales: A Legacy for Today / John Warren Stewig
Andrew Lang's The Blue Fairy Book: Changing the Course of History / Glenn S. Burne
Edward Lear's Book of Nonsense: A Scroobious Classic / Mark I. West
David McCord's Poems: Something Behind the Door / Myra Cohn Livingston
A. A. Milne's When We Were Very Young and Now We Are Six: A Small World of Everyday Pleasures / Anita Wilson
The Nursery Rhymes of Mother Goose: A World Without Glasses / Perry Nodelman
The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault: Acute Logic and Gallic Wit / James Gellert
Howard Pyle's The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood: The Quintessential Children's Story / Taimi Ranta
Howard Pyle's The Story of King Arthur and his Knights: A Backwards Look at Chivalry / Jill P. May.
