Musings about some of my favorite fantasy literature for young readers, comics old and new, the peculiar publishing industry, the future of books, kids today, and the writing process.
Last month Publishers Weekly reviewer Rose Fox looked at the made-up language in Christopher Paolini's Eldest. When an essay is subtitled "Random Diacritical Marks," you know it's not going to be complimentary. Though it will be a little more comprehensible if you know that "SVO" is linguisticians' jargon for "subject-verb-object."
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J. L. BELL is a writer and reader of fantasy literature for children. His favorite authors include L. Frank Baum, Diana Wynne Jones, and Susan Cooper. He is an Assistant Regional Advisor in the Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators, and was the editor of Oziana, creative magazine of the International Wizard of Oz Club, from 2004 to 2010.
Living in Massachusetts, Bell also writes about the American Revolution at Boston 1775.
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