L.M. Boston’s The Children of Green Knowe had been on my TBR for ‘only’ three years. I know I had signed it out from the library a couple times before but never got around to it. Thanks to your votes for making me read it at last! Unfortunately, this wasn’t […]
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One of the assignments for my children’s literature course this past term was to write 25 annotations (snapshot reviews between 50 and 150 words) on all sorts of kidlit. It was a great opportunity to delve out of my comfort zone of MG spec fic 😉 Today’s post is the first in a series where I share those annotations by type. Links will be updated as the rest of the […]
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Tolkien & The Silmarillion by Clyde S. Kilby Format/source: Hardcover/Purchased secondhandPublished: 1976Publisher: Harold Shaw PublishersLength: 89 pages Genre: Biography★★★★ Yes, this delightful little volume is ‘outdated’, having been published in1976, a year before The Silmarillion. But it remains a valuable read as author Clyde S. Kilby, an Inklings scholar and creator of the Marion E. Wade Center, knew Tolkien personally and shares intimate recollections of the summer he spent working with Tolkien in 1966 to prepare The Silmarillion for […]
November was a better month than October – I did lots of steady work for uni. I’m taking a quick break from my final assignments to write this post. I’m almost done one paper (a report on eliminating overdue fines on children’s materials) but I have lots of work to do on my children’s literature paper (exploring the intersections of religion and fantasy in medieval middle grade). Both are due on […]
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Tom and Hatty in Tom’s Midnight Garden – I recently read this book because I needed a classic for my children’s literature course (it won the Carnegie in 1958). I was pleasantly surprised by the development of Tom and Hatty’s relationships. I cheered the lack of any romance between them. Mo and Meggie in the Inkheart trilogy – Seeing how Mo and Meggie’s father-daughter relationship evolves as their characters grow (and as […]