Showing posts with label AUTHOR E. Nesbit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label AUTHOR E. Nesbit. Show all posts
23 September 2014

Finding Neverland Has a Lot to Answer For

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In 2004 Miramax released Finding Neverland , with Johnny Depp playing a handsomer-than-real-life James M. Barrie, Kate Winslet as a more-w...
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26 July 2014

Kickstarting Dragons

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April Brown and colleagues from an online comics magazine called Off Registration have prepared a comics adaptation of E. Nesbit’s The Bo...
15 August 2012

Play It Again, Psammead

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The success of various latter-day sequels to classic (i.e., public-domain or licensed-by-heirs) children’s novels prompted Puffin to invit...
19 January 2012

Moorcock: “the prose of the nursery-room”

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From Michael Moorcock’s essay “Epic Pooh,” as archived at Revolution SF  (it was originally written in 1978, revised in 1989, and revised ag...
21 October 2011

Ness on Nesbit

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Gracious, I missed that Mari Ness at Tor was reviewing all the books by E. Nesbit ! I didn’t see a mention of how in her golden period Ne...
22 March 2011

New Nesbit and Another Nesbit News Bit

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The Guardian reports that Jacqueline Wilson , one of the UK’s most respected and popular writers for children, has signed a contract to “w...
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03 March 2011

“She Never Slapped Her Hippopotamus”

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This is a passage from E. Nesbit ’s “Uncle James, or The Purple Stranger,” a story collected in The Book of Dragons . It introduces one of t...
13 November 2010

Correction: When Edward Met Edith

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Months back, I wrote an analysis of how Edward Eager ’s 1954 fantasy Half Magic addressed history—in its setting in the past, in its depic...
06 July 2009

Gerald and the Ugly-Wuglies

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This spring Eva's Book Addiction offered an insightful review of E. Nesbit 's The Enchanted Castle , with particular attention to t...
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03 October 2008

Avoiding the Dreaded Prologue

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A while back, Alison Morris at Shelftalker quoted this passage from E. Nesbit 's The Treasure Seekers . It comes to us in one of the fi...
31 March 2008

The Nesbit Model and the Baum Model

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For a while I've been mulling over two types of fantasy adventures that start in a world that readers recognize as much like their own. ...
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02 November 2007

Knights and Ladies in Knight's Castle

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One of the weaknesses of E. Nesbit 's fantasy books is that her children aren't very distinct. It doesn't help that there are of...
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01 November 2007

Horn Book Fantasy Roundup

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This month the Horn Book 's website added a selection of fine essays on fantasy from issues past. I particularly enjoyed Lloyd Alexande...
12 August 2007

Good Old Beautiful Phoenix

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On my five-hour bus ride last Friday, I learned that my godson's five-year-old first cousins on his mother's side some fine childre...
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19 November 2006

Even More Original Ice Dragon?

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Apropos of ice dragons instead of fire dragons, fantasy scholar Ruth Berman tells me that E. Nesbit wrote a story called "The Ice Dra...
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09 November 2006

Series as a Genre Unto Themselves

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Roger Sutton just wrote about the issues provoked by sequels and series , asking how reviewers and prize judges can evaluate them. Must one ...
11 October 2006

Visiting Storybook England

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A little over a decade ago, I made my first visit to good friends in England. They were living in an apartment in Christ Church College at ...
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05 June 2006

E. Nesbit: magical realism before its time

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In a discussion of "magic(al) realism" on an email list in March and more recently in another on Child_Lit , I opined that all the...
30 May 2006

E. Nesbit and the language barrier

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One of the toughest challenges of writing about characters moving from our world to another is having them communicate believably to the fol...