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• vi • Through the Looking-Glass (excerpt) • [Alice] • (1872) • short fiction by Lewis Carroll
• ix • Introduction (Children of Wonder) • (1953) • essay by William Tenn
• 1 • Part 1: Wild Talents • (1953) • essay by William Tenn
• 3 • The Rocking-Horse Winner • (1926) • short story by D. H. Lawrence
• 17 • The Words of Guru • (1941) • short story by C. M. Kornbluth
• 24 • Baby Is Three • (1952) • novella by Theodore Sturgeon
• 79 • Part 2: The Child Possessed • (1953) • essay by William Tenn
• 81 • The Small Assassin • (1946) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• 96 • The Story of a Panic • (1904) • novelette by E. M. Forster
• 116 • The Piper's Son • [Baldy] • (1945) • novelette by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Lewis Padgett]
• 143 • Part 3: The Stuff of Dreams • (1953) • essay by William Tenn
• 145 • Miriam • (1945) • short story by Truman Capote
• 155 • Adam and Eve and Pinch Me • (1921) • short story by A. E. Coppard
• 165 • Child's Play • (1942) • short story by Alice-Mary Schnirring
• 173 • The Open Window • (1911) • short story by Saki
• 177 • Part 4: Terror in the Nursery • (1953) • essay by William Tenn
• 179 • The End of the Party • (1932) • short story by Graham Greene
• 187 • The Idol of the Flies • (1942) • short story by Jane Rice
• 207 • That Only a Mother • (1948) • short story by Judith Merril
• 217 • Part 5: Alien Brothers • (1953) • essay by William Tenn
• 219 • Born of Man and Woman • (1950) • short story by Richard Matheson
• 222 • Keyhole • (1951) • short story by Murray Leinster
• 237 • Terminal Quest • (1951) • short story by Poul Anderson
• 255 • Part 6: Little Superman, What Now? • (1953) • essay by William Tenn
• 257 • The Origin of the Species • (1953) • short story by Katherine MacLean
• 264 • In Hiding • [Children of the Atom] • (1948) • novelette by Wilmar H. Shiras
• 297 • Part 7: In Times to Come • (1953) • essay by William Tenn
• 299 • The Hatchery (Excerpt from Brave New World) • (1932) • short fiction by Aldous Huxley
• 317 • Errand Boy • (1947) • short story by William Tenn
• 332 • Nightmare for Future Reference • (1938) • poem by Stephen Vincent Benét
• 337 • About the Editor (Children of Wonder) • (1953) • essay by uncredited