Intended as a survey of the children's short story and aimed especially at parents and education professionals, this anthology provides insight into the historical development of the short story for children, showing how the perception of childhood and changing attitudes have influenced writers of different periods. The anthology is chronologically arranged and contains works by 44 different authors who have written over the past 250 years. The anthology includes stories by such well-known authors as Louisa May Alcott, Christina Rosetti, Rudyard Kipling, Max Beerbohm, and Carl Sandburg as well as such leading modern writers as Philippa Pearce, Richard Kennedy, Nadia Wheatley, and Jan Mark. (SR)