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The Believing Child

Zenna Henderson

First published June 1970
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

Dismey <I>believes</i>. In everything. Now she's learned the magic word PYRZQXGL (from Oz) — her Momma told her how to pronounce it. And those two boys who were picking on her? Rocks. Can she believe them back into being boys?

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
June 1970 Cover The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1970 Mercury Press, Inc. MAGAZINE 115
1971 Cover Holding Wonder Doubleday Collection 143
April 1972 Cover Holding Wonder Gollancz Collection 143
August 1972 Cover Holding Wonder Avon Collection 148
August 1972 Cover Holding Wonder Avon Collection 148
January 1973 Cover Holding Wonder Avon Collection 148
April 1975 Cover Holding Wonder Avon Collection 148
1979 Cover Holding Wonder Avon Collection 148
2019 Cover The Baum Bugle, Winter 2019 International Wizard of Oz Club FANZINE 21
February 2020 Cover Believing: The Other Stories of Zenna Henderson NESFA Press Collection 273
February 2020 Cover Believing: The Other Stories of Zenna Henderson NESFA Press Collection |24
February 2020 Cover Believing: The Other Stories of Zenna Henderson NESFA Press Collection
8888 The Zenna Henderson Collection Corgi Books Omnibus