What does it feel like to be a child? Learning how to negotiate with the unpredictable adult world, learning how to pick a path through life's traps and hazards, learning when the time has come to put away childish things. The writers of these short stories show us the world as seen from the far side of the child-adult divide, a gap that is sometimes small, and sometimes an unbridgeable chasm.
- Should wizard hit mommy? : John Updike
- The end of the party : Graham Greene
- Killing Lizards : William Boyd
- Friends of Miss Reece : Susan Hill
- The rocking-horse winner : D.H.Lawrence
- The open window : Saki
- Next term, we' ll mash you : Penelope Lively
- Secrets : Bernard MacLaverty
- The licence : Frank Tuohy
- The Runaway : Morley Callagham