Contents

Stories

1.  Her Father’s House

2.  Animals Running on a Windy Crown

3.  The Doctrine of the Leather-Stocking Jesus

4.  The Tailor Who Told the Truth

5.  Amyas Axel, His Care and Keep

Essays

6.  The One Who Goes Out at the Cry of Dawn: The Secret Process of Stories

7.  Becoming a Writer

8.  Angel in the Parlor: The Reading and Writing of Fantasy

9.  The Well-tempered Falsehood: The Art of Storytelling

10.  The Spinning Room: Symbols and Storytellers

11.  The Game and the Garden: The Lively Art of Nonsense

12.  The Rutabaga Lamp: The Reading and Writing of Fairy Tales

13.  “Who Invented Water?”: Magic, Craft, and the Making of Children’s Books