Fiction and Essays (view Full Listing)

• 1 • Introduction (Before Oz) • essay by Mark I. West
• 11 • The Last of the Huggermuggers (excerpt) • juvenile • short story by Christopher Pearse Cranch
• 26 • The Gray Cat • juvenile • (1859) • short story by Jane G. Austin
• 43 • Cold Country • juvenile • short story by S. Weir Mitchell [as by Silas Weir Mitchell]
• 47 • Ting-a-Ling's Visit to Turilira • juvenile • short story by Frank R. Stockton (variant of Ting-a-Ling's Visit to Tur-il-i-ra 1869)
• 59 • The Wonderful Apple Tree • juvenile • (1871) • short story by Elizabeth Payson Prentiss
• 67 • Rumpty-Dudget's Tower • juvenile • [Rumpty-Dudget] • (1924) • novelette by Julian Hawthorne
• 88 • The Traveller, the Cook, and the Little Old Man • juvenile • (1899) • short story by Laura E. Richards
• 92 • Farmer Griggs's Boggart • juvenile • (1885) • short story by Howard Pyle
• 100 • The Mischievous Prank of the Gnomes • juvenile • (1895) • short story by Elizabeth Foster Wesselhoeft
• 109 • The Light in the Attic • juvenile • (1853) • short story by Richard Henry Stoddard
• 123 • Eva's Visit to Fairy-Land • juvenile • (1854) • short story by Louisa May Alcott
• 139 • John's Nap • juvenile • (1864) • short story by Horace E. Scudder
• 147 • The Chairs in Council • juvenile • (1866) • short story by Edward Eggleston
• 152 • The Bubbling Teapot (excerpt) • juvenile • short story by Elizabeth W. Champney
• 162 • A Christmas Fantasy, with a Moral • (1891) • short story by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
• 172 • Tiddledywink Tales (excerpt) • juvenile • short story by John Kendrick Bangs
• 181 • The Grandmother of the Dolls • juvenile • (1894) • short story by Joel Chandler Harris
• 191 • Davy and the Goblin (excerpt) • short story by Charles E. Carryl
• 201 • Behind Time (excerpt) • juvenile • short story by George Parsons Lathrop
• 212 • Carrie's Three Wishes • juvenile • (1886) • short story by Lucretia P. Hale