Triumph of the spirit of Cynthia Voigt's Homecoming, Dicey's song, and A solitary blue / Gloria Jameson --

Of good courage / Anne Devereaux Jordan --

Farley Mowat in the wilderness / Richard Rotert --

Bravery and philosophy in The adventures of frog and toad / Gareth B. Matthews --

Imaginative uses of secrecy in children's literature / John Daniel Stahl --

Secrets and healing magic in The secret garden / Gillian Adams --

Diary of a dream : triumph of the creative spirit of Elizabeth Yates / Janice M. Alberghene --

Survival and the imagination in depression-set fiction for children / Deanna Zitterkopf --

Survival of the spirit in Holocaust literature for and about children / Leonard M. Mendelsohn --

Triumph of the spirit in nonfiction for Black children / Jim Haskins --

Death and the human spirit in Jill Paton Walsh's A parcel of patterns / Mary Shaner --

Abused children and their triumphs in literature / Francelia Butler --

Andersen's heroes and heroines : relinquishing the reward / Celia Catlett Anderson --

Mythic consciousness and Hawaiian children's literature / Stephen Canham --

Childlike spirit of the avant-garde and children's literature / Jay Livernois --

Progression through contraries : the triumph of the spirit in the work of Maurice Sendak / Geraldine Deluca --

Marguerite Yourcenar and Michel Tournier : the arts of the heart / Margaret R. Higonnet --

Victorious monkey : favorite figure in Chinese literature for children / Guo Jian --

Instructive animals in Greek children's literature / Lia Hadzopoulou-Caravia --

Triumphant transformations of Pinocchio / John Cech --

Out of the depths to joy : spirit/soul in juvenile novels / M. Sarah Smedman --

Spirit of faith in Mormon children's literature / Jesse S. Crisler --

Puritan triumph : the joyful death books of Cotton Mather and James Janeway / Howard A. Myer --

John Foxe's Book of martyrs and its value as a book for children / Barbara Rosen --

"The whole of the story" : Frances Hodgson Burnett's A little princess / Elizabeth Lennox Keyser.