Children of Wonder: 21 Remarkable and Fantastic Tales
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Overview:
- Title: Children of Wonder: 21 Remarkable and Fantastic Tales
- Author: William Tenn
- Year: 1953
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster
- Price: $2.95
- Pages: xiv+337
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Anthology
- Title Reference: Children of Wonder: 21 Remarkable and Fantastic Tales
- Notes:
- "First Printing" on copyright page [as noted by Currey.]
- Publication date per Cole checklist of SF anthologies.
- $2.95 price on front flap of jacket. "Jacket design by Paul Bacon" on back flap.
- On the Contents pages (vii-viii), the stories are grouped into seven Parts: "Wild Talents", "The Child Possessed", "The Stuff of Dreams", "Terror in the Nursery", "Alien Brothers", "Little Superman, What Now?" and "In Times To Come". Each Part is prefaced by a short essay which is uncredited, but presumably by the editor, William Tenn.
- "Nightmare for Future Reference" is sub-titled "A narrative poem" on Contents page, but not on its title page.
- "In Hiding" is listed on the table of contents and the story's title page as being excerpted from the novel Children of the Atom even though it is a complete story.