Dang!!! Pardon my previous post. Indeed it's MacAvoy. Sorry 'bout that. While checking my bookshelves, I dran across H. Beam Piper. He'd be good for kids, I think--Little Fuzzy would be a place to start. Did I mention Poul Anderson? His underlying worldview is pretty Norse--there's going to be a final battle and then darkness, but a lot of individual works are fine for kids. The Trouble Twisters and Satan's World, Tales of the Flying Moutains, Three Hearts and Three Lions . . . Mia