2006 Locus Magazine Award finalist 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 Quarterly
It is a study conducted in Le Guinian frame of mind which resists closure and does not insist on synthesis or reconciliation of many-voicedness and many-facetedness of Le Guin's fiction, and yet suggests important way in which her output can, indeed, be seen as forming a number of recognizable continua --Marek Oziewicz, University of Wroclaw, Poland, Internation Research Society for Children's Literature
Series Editor's Foreword
Acknowledgments
Preface
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: Genre and Audience
Chapter 7: An Interview with Ursula K. Le Guin
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index