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Tag Archives: Children’s literature
Alice Hoffman’s Water Tales
Kate Danemark wrote this review. Left to myself, I would have been hard pressed to come up with my three hundred requisite words for a review of the two novels, Aquamarine and Indigo, contained in Water Tales. To me, the … Continue reading
Wayne Vansant’s Stephen Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage: The Graphic Novel, June Brigman and Roy Richardson’s Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty: The Graphic Novel, and Gary Reed and Frazer Irving’s Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: The Graphic Novel
An adaptation of a novel, whether into a movie or a graphic novel, is never a wholly faithful translation. A novel has the advantage of having fewer constraints against length, and as such, paring down a classic into a more … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Graphic Literature
Tagged Children's literature, fantasy
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Robert Halmi’s Alice in Wonderland
Whenever possible, start by saying something nice: This movie looks great. The sets and the character designs all have a touch of the Tenniel illustrations, that sense that everything’s funny and scary at the same time. Unfortunately, that sense isn’t … Continue reading
Posted in Film
Tagged Children's literature, fantasy
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Seabury Quinn’s Roads
Gary Turner wrote this review. This is about as perfect of a “facsimile reproduction” as I could imagine. When I removed the book from its impressive box (the book comes in a gift box and includes a pamphlet with the … Continue reading
Melissa Sweet’s Some Writer! The Story of E.B. White
I have to admit, I worried I didn’t know enough about E.B. White to do justice to this book. I’m a huge fan of Charlotte’s Web; but who isn’t? Though I needn’t have worried; Sweet did all the work for … Continue reading
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Tagged Biographies, Book Review, Children's literature, E.B. White, YA
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Joseph Stanton’s The Important Books: Children’s Books as Art and Literature
I am more than a little pleased to learn that I am not the only person who would think of comparing a children’s picture book with Les Tres Rich Heures du Duc de Berry, which is exactly what Joseph Stanton … Continue reading
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Tagged Children's literature, criticism, nonfiction
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Charles de Lint’s The Cats of Tanglewood Forest
I’ve long followed Charles de Lint’s writing, starting with, if I remember correctly, Moonheart way back when, and I’ve been as close as I ever come to being a fan for years. (I even got my hands on some early … Continue reading
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Tagged Children's literature, illustrated books
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Dave Eggers’ The Wild Things
The Wild Things is Dave Eggers’ foray into the universe of Maurice Sendak, a novelization based on Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are and Eggers’ own collaboration with Spike Jonze on the screenplay for the film of the same title. … Continue reading
Spike Jonze’s Where the Wild Things Are
First things first. The movie version of Where The Wild Things Are, directed by Spike Jonze from a script by Jonze and “staggering genius” Dave Eggers and soundtracked by hipster goddess Karen O, is not an exact, faithful translation of … Continue reading