Those familiar with Stan Dragland's work recognize an author who works in protean literary forms. His books have included Wilson MacDonald's western tour, a comic 'expedition' of the Canadian poet in 1923; a children's adventure called Simon Jesse's Journey, and Peckertracks - a chronicle about growing up in western Canada. In this new book Stan Dragland reveals a different side of growing up. Journeys through Bookland is about how we educate ourselves and the influence that guide us - fairy tales, individual teachers, family life, dreams and nightmares. Stan Dragland is at his most moving in this book. He makes fiction out of all these sources, so that by the end an individual and a true voice emerge.