1. What differences are there between the characters of Susan and Colin? How are these differences shown? Are they more or less clear than the character differences between Gowther and Bess Mossock?

2. What is left out of Garner's account of Susan and Colin? For instance, why do they make no friends their own age?

Why do they never fight? What else that is important in the lives of real children does Garner simplify or omit?

3. Consider this description of Grimnir: "He is, or was, a man. Once he studied under the wisest of the wise, and became a great lore-master; but in his lust for knowledge he practiced the forbidden arts, and the black magic ravaged his heart, and made a monster of him." Would it be better or worse if Gamer had written: "He was a man and a great lore-master. But he practiced...