2006 Locus Magazine Award for Best Non-Fiction"A book like Cadden's is long overdue. I found Cadden's categories useful, his approaches enlightening, and his obvious love for the material congenial." - Children's Literature Association

• Chapter 1 Le Guin’s Continuum of Anthropomorphism; Chapter 2 Connecting Characters On the Continuum of Viewpoint; Chapter 3 Home As Travel Through Time and Place; Chapter 4 Earthsea: Crossover Series of Multiple Continua; Chapter 5 Always Coming Home Childhood, Children’s Stories, and the Child Reader; Chapter 6 Ethics and the Continuum of Hope; Chapter 7 An Interview with Ursula K. Le Guin;