From the 1930s to the mid-1950s, Let's Pretend was one of the most enduring and highly lauded radio programs for children ever broadcast. For over two decades of Saturday mornings (apart from a few years in a bi-weekly, early evening slot during the 1938-39 season), the show presented familiar fairy tales such as "Cinderella," "Rumplestiltskin," "Sleeping Beauty, "The Little Lame Prince," and "Jack and the Beanstalk," along with the occasional original story, in fully-dramatized half-hour segments featuring a large cast of new and seasoned radio performers, accompanied by specially composed musical scores. In the pre-and early-TV era, these imaginatively produced shows nurtured the imaginations of countless American youngsters with a simple but potent fusion of spoken word, music, and sound effects, which in tandem evoked many a magical image in the collective mind of generations as yet unsullied by the literal...