Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Series Editor's Foreword; Introduction; Acknowledgments; List of Illustrations; Hoban's Street Performers; Monsters, Machines, and the Place of Chocolate Cake: Hoban's Picture Books; An Epistemology for Frances; Questions of ""What"" and ""Where, "" and Contexts of ""Meaning"" for The Mouse and His Child in the Late Twentieth Century; Toward Linearity: A Narrative Reading of The Mouse and His Child; Spring and Fall to a Young (Mouse) Child: A Blakean Reading of The Mouse and His Child.

Mice-en-Scene: A Comparative Study of the Novel and the Animated Feature Film The Mouse and His ChildFrom the Temple of Solomon to Zionist Ironies: What The Mouse and His Child Is Also About; The Ponders; or Much-in-Little: Some Recurring Aspects of the Work of Russell Hoban; Thoughts on Two Hoban Poems, Some Picture Books, and a Few Obsessions; Russell Hoban as Seen from Germany; Post-Mouse, Postmodemist, Hoban, and the fin de siècle Culture of Childhood; The Way of The Trokeville Way; Works; Contributors; Index.