I just finished reading Coraline by Neil Gaiman. This is excellent reading for the Little Fears GM. It has everything: a child protagonist, an extension of Closetland, a monster masquerading as a parent, and even a bit of magic. I'm not recalling if there was any explicit use of Belief Magic, but at the very least there was a Hand-Me-Down.
Seth Ben-Ezra
Great Wolf
it came out?
when did that get published? I remember reading an interveiw with gaimen not too long ago when he was writing that book. that description scared the hell out of me (the whole parallel dimension/creepy mother bit).
another good book is "Something Wicked this way comes" by Ray Bradbury.