Tag Archives: Children’s literature

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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Frank Beddor’s The Looking Glass Wars

Posted on 18th June 2006 by Diverse Voices

Faith J. Cormier wrote this review. The Looking Glass Wars is a revisionist fairy tale. You know the sort of thing: “What if ‘insert name of story here’ was based on something that really happened?” In this case, the idea … Continue reading →

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Tim Burton’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Posted on 6th July 2005 by Denise Kitashima Dutton

The Candy Man The Candy Man can The Candy Man can cause he mixes it with love and makes the world taste good – “The Candy Man,” from Willie Wonka & the Chocolate Factory I can’t remember a time when … Continue reading →

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Shel Silverstein’s Lafcadio: the Lion Who Shot Back, A Giraffe and a Half, The Missing Piece, The Missing Piece Meets the Big O, and Falling Up

Posted on 15th June 2004 by David Kidney

“I never planned to write or draw for kids. It was Tomi Ungerer, a friend of mine, who insisted … practically dragged me, kicking and screaming, into [editor] Ursula Nordstrom’s office. And she convinced me that Tomi was right, I … Continue reading →

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Disney Pixar’s Finding Nemo

Posted on 6th July 2003 by Diverse Voices

Kevin Lau penned this review. Finding Nemo is a testament to why animated films (computer or otherwise) exist. It is also a testament to Pixar Studios’ continuing reign over the still-growing medium. With five films under its belt, and not … Continue reading →

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Roald Dahl’s Esio Trot and The Minpins unabridged audiobook, read by Joanna Lumley

Posted on 7th June 2002 by Gary Whitehouse

Craig Clarke penned this review. I never read Roald Dahl as a child. I was introduced to his wickedly dark mainstream fiction through adaptations on Alfred Hitchcock Presents and have been a fan of that area of his career for … Continue reading →

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Stephen Baxter’s Silverhair

Posted on 19th June 2000 by Diverse Voices

Eric Eller wrote this review. How is the world viewed through nonhuman eyes? Authors have looked at the world from the perspective of animals since at least as long ago as Aesop, often with a lesson to tell us about … Continue reading →

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Ronald Reichertz’s The Making of the Alice Books: Lewis Carroll’s Uses of Earlier Children’s Literature

Posted on 18th June 2000 by Diverse Voices

Thomas Wiloch wrote this review. What inspired Lewis Carroll to write his classic tales about that intrepid English girl, Alice? Contemporary readers may think his stories sprang full-blown from his brow in Zeus-like fashion. Others may focus their attention on … Continue reading →

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Mary Norton’s Bed-Knob and Broomstick

Posted on 6th June 2000 by Diverse Voices

Irene J. Henry penned this review. This reprint of two short children’s novels (The Magic Bed-Knob and Bonfires and Broomsticks) was a favorite of my grade-school contemporaries, but for some reason I never read it then. I recall my friends … Continue reading →

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