Prologue
Fantasy
Ruth Mather Skidmore
Creating Context
The Snake That Swallowed Its Tail • Creator & Creation • Concept Vocabulary
Cluster One: What Is Fantasy?
Thinking Skill: Defining
- Fantasy (essay)
- Isaac Asimov
- Middle Woman (short story)
- Orson Scott Card
- Fafnir (poem)
- Stevie Smith
- Before I Wake (short story)
- Jim Cort
- Sir Gawain and the Loathly Lady (short story)
- Retold by Betsy Hearne
Cluster Two: What Can Fantasy Teach Us?
Thinking Skill: Analyzing
- Plain Magic (short story)
- Tamora Pierce
- The Bureau d'Echange de Maux (short story)
- Lord Dunsany
- Ms. Lipshutz and the Goblin (short story)
- Marvin Kaye
- The Chaser (short story)
- John Collier
Cluster Three: What’s Real and How Do You Know?
Thinking Skill: Evaluating
- "Ticing" the Fairies (article)
- Wim Coleman
- Disenchantment (poem)
- Louis Untermeyer
- The Spring (short story)
- Peter Dickinson
- Caleb's Colors (short story)
- Neal Shusterman
Cluster Four: Thinking on Your Own
Thinking Skill: Synthesizing
- Black Angel (short story)
- Nancy Springer
- The Wife’s Story (short story)
- Ursula K. Le Guin
- Rikiki and the Wizard (short story)
- Patricia C. Wrede
- The Stone Girl (short story)
- Elise Matthesen
- Between the Lines (poem)
- Ruth Trowbridge
