Part One: Children Discover Books
1. The Child and His Books
2. The Adult and the Child's Book
3. Children's Books: History and Trends
4. The Artist and the Child's Book
5. Mother Goose and the Ballads
6. Poetry of the Child's World: Nonsense and Everyday
7. Growing Up with Poetry
8. Using Poetry with Children
Part Three: Once Upon a Time
11. Fables, Myths, and Epics
13. Storytelling and Reading Aloud
Part Four: Fiction and Stranger than Fiction
16. Other Times and Places
Part Five: Reading Follows Many Paths
18. Reading for Information
19. Reading and Creative Expression
20. Reading and the Mass Media
21. Reading in the Family
Publishers and Publishers' Addresses
Index to Authors, Illustrators, and Titles.