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Tag Archives: Children’s literature
Lloyd Alexander’s The Rope Trick
What is magic? Although she doesn’t know it, this is the question confronting Lidi, a young traveling magician, whose sleight of hand tricks earn her a living and bring her across the path of some likeable companions and some unsavory … Continue reading
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Lloyd Alexander’s Westmark
Theo is a young apprentice to a printer, an orphan who has been looked after by his community and his master, Anton. Business has been down lately because the Chief Minister Cabbarus has required official approval for every publication, with … Continue reading
Lloyd Alexander’s Time Cat
Jason’s in trouble. He’s been sent to his room for, among other things, spilling paint on the dining room table, punching his younger brother for laughing at him, and talking back to his mother. Sulking in his room, he turns … Continue reading
Lloyd Alexander’s The Book of Three, The Black Cauldron, and The Castle of Llyr audiobooks, read by James Langton
Lloyd Alexander brought magic to my childhood, never more so than with the five books collectively called the Chronicles of Prydain. I adored these books, and read them time on time. They were for me what the Harry Potter series … Continue reading
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Alan Garner’s Elidor
Rebecca Swain wrote this for Folk Tales, our precursor. I started reading this book with the idea of skimming it for information to give when offering it to Folk Tales reviewers. Before I knew it I had finished it. I … Continue reading
J.R.R. Tolkien and Baillie Tolkien’s Letters From Father Christmas (Revised Edition), and Letters From Father Christmas, read by The Usual Suspects, Longfellow Books, Portland, Maine, USA, December 16, 2002
Every Christmas between the years 1920 and 1943, the ever-so-blessed children of J.R.R. Tolkien received some of the most unique mail that a child could ever hope for: letters from Father Christmas himself! Beautifully illustrated and delivered in various ways, … Continue reading
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Jane Louise Curry’s Robin Hood and his Merry Men, and Robin Hood in the Greenwood
Rebecca Swain wrote this review. These hardcover retellings of the traditional Robin Hood legend are geared for children 9-12. While I feel that children over the age of 10 might find these books too young, I do think they are … Continue reading
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Theresa Tomlinson’s The Forestwife, and Child of the May
Laurie Thayer wrote this review for Folk Tales, the predecessor of Green Man Review. In the early years of the 1990s, Robin Hood and his Merry Men enjoyed something of a renaissance. For a time, there was a spate of … Continue reading
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Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly, editors’ It Was a Dark and Silly Night
Nathan Brazil wrote this review. Across the hemisphere our heroes dash in a flying machine of their own design, when down below in the ravaged tulip fields they spot the herbicidal maniacs. It Was a Dark and Silly Night is … Continue reading
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A. A. Milne Winnie-the-Pooh, The House at Pooh Corner, and The Complete Tales & Poems of Winnie-the-Pooh
Pooh, like seemingly everything else, has been Disneyfied. The process actually started when I was a lad in the 1960s, with the short film Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day. Sadly, that was my introduction to Pooh, and I … Continue reading
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