Synopsis: "Between 1865 and 1930, five writers who could not grow up transformed their longing for childhood into a literary revolution. Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, J. M.Barrie, Kenneth Grahame, and A. A. Milne stand at the center of a golden age of Victorian and early twentieth-century children's literature. ... These five writers made the realms of fantasy they envisioned an enduring part of our everyday culture." (Front jacket flap blurb)