Beyond Words: Mystical Fancy in Children's Literature.

Concerned with books which enrich and preserve a child's wonder and faith, this publication explores the fanciful literature which communicates with the "inner child." Chapters include (1) "The Writers of These Books," (who have a childlike quality about themselves which sets them apart from their fellow writers); (2) "How These Books Are Written" (especially the Narnia series of C.S. Lewis); (3) "The Child and the World Within Him"--a world in which the material and the spiritual are so entwined as to be one; (4) "The Child and the World Around Him"--a world which reveals traces of the spiritual realities of which the child is aware, but not fully comprehending; (5) "The Child and the World Beyond Him"--a world which nourishes the child's sense of fancy; and (6) "Reaching Beyond Words"--to the heart, to the intuition, to the reality of spiritual world--all marked by an atmosphere of "joyful sadness." References for each chapter are provided. (JMC)