Tag Archives: Children’s literature

Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean’s The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish 

Posted on 14th August 2016 by Diverse Voices

Robert Wiersema penned this review. Anyone who has spent any time with a child, or with a children’s book, will realize that a child’s sense of humour, and of reality, tends toward the gloriously demented. In the open, amorphous, formative state … Continue reading →

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Dr. Suess’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas

Posted on 25th April 2016 by Cat Eldridge

Once upon a Christmas season, there was a television show called How The Grinch Stole Christmas. A television show that explicitly had a message that Christmas was neither a celebration of the birth of Christ, nor was it something that … Continue reading →

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China Miéville’s Un Lun Dun

Posted on 23rd April 2016 by Kathleen Bartholomew

China Miéville (Perdido Street Station, The Scar, The Iron Council) is renowned for the world he has created around the great, multi-species, many-storied city of New Crobuzon. Those are adult works, beyond a doubt: ferocious and frightening, full of the … Continue reading →

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John Masefield’s The Box of Delights: or When the Wolves Were Running

Posted on 10th March 2016 by kestrell

Kay Harker is on his way home from boarding school for the Christmas holidays when he finds himself being followed by two suspicious characters. When he arrives home he finds that not only will he be sharing his holidays with … Continue reading →

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Mark I. West’s  A Children’s Literature Tour of Great Britain

Posted on 9th March 2016 by Lory Hess

At seventeen, I had one of the thrills of my young life when during a tour of England with my church choir, our anxious chaperones finally let us loose in Oxford for a day. After happily getting lost in the … Continue reading →

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Josepha Sherman and T.K.F. Weisskopf’s Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts: The Subversive Folklore of Childhood

Posted on 27th February 2016 by Diverse Voices

Pamela Murray Winters contributed this review which ran first on Mostly Folk. It’s been 10 years since I bonded with my new office mate over the issue of a children’s song. It must have been a slow day in the … Continue reading →

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Teya Rosenberg and associated editors’ Diana Wynne Jones: An Exciting and Exacting Wisdom

Posted on 7th February 2016 by Grey Walker

That fiction has power to alter reality is, at least in one sense, literally true. Fiction is a product of language, and human beings live largely in a social and linguistic world — above all, a world of narrative. It … Continue reading →

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Johnny Cunningham and others’ peter & wendy

Posted on 3rd January 2016 by Jo Morrison

A rich montage of songs and sounds combine to bring the listener to the world of Neverland to retell the story of Peter Pan and Wendy. This music was used in a theatrical production of Peter Pan, using puppetry, light, … Continue reading →

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J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, Illustrated by Jemima Catlin

Posted on 7th February 2014 by Gary Whitehouse

The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien’s original Middle Earth adventure story, was first published in paper in the U.S. when I was 10, and became a huge hit with me and my fellow Baby Boomers. I first heard the story that year, … Continue reading →

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Gregory Maguire’s Making Mischief: A Maurice Sendak Appreciation

Posted on 8th May 2010 by Diverse Voices

Joseph Thompson penned this review. One of the best conversations I ever had as a child was with a large birch at the edge of a peat bog. I was 8 years old and stammered stupidly through most of the … Continue reading →

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