Leaping Beauty
by Gregory Maguire | 
The Fairy's Mistake
by Gail Carson Levine | 
Cinderellis and the Glass Hill
by Gail Carson Levine | 
American Fairy Tales
by L. Frank Baum | 
The Wonder Clock
by Howard Pyle | 
Phantastes
by George MacDonald | 
For Biddle's Sake
by Gail Carson Levine |
Dream On
by Sarah Mlynowski | 
The Golden Key
by George MacDonald | 
The Rumpelstiltskin Problem
by Vivian Vande Velde |
Snow & Rose
by Emily Winfield Martin | 
Once on a Time
by A. A. Milne | 
The Rose and the Beast
by Francesca Lia Block | 
The King's Equal
by Katherine Paterson |
Toad Words And Other Stories
by T. Kingfisher | 
The Ugly Princess and the Wise Fool
by Margaret Gray | 
Lilith
by George MacDonald | 
Leaf by Niggle
by J. R. R. Tolkien | 
At the Back of the North Wind
by George MacDonald | 
The Light Princess
by George MacDonald |
George MacDonald occupied a major position in the intellectual life of his Victorian contemporaries. This volume brings together all eleven of his shorter fairy stories as well as his essay "The Fantastic Imagination". The subjects are those of traditional fantasy: good and wicked fairies, children embarking on elaborate quests, and journeys into unsettling dreamworlds. Within this familiar imaginative landscape, his children's stories were profoundly experimental, questioning the association of childhood with purity and innocence, and the need to separate fairy tale wonder from adult scepticism and disbelief.