Oz and Ends

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.

Showing posts with label BOOK Knight's Castle. Show all posts

Showing posts with label BOOK Knight's Castle. Show all posts

02 November 2007

Knights and Ladies in Knight's Castle

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...

16 October 2007

The Cold War Reaches Knight's Castle

Edward Eager wrote Knight's Castle in 1956, and the anti-Communist ideology of the day even seeped into details of what otherwise seems...

14 September 2007

Eager Stands on the Shoulders of Giants

No one wore his influences more proudly on his sleeve than Edward Eager, that highly enjoyable if not deep mid-20th-century American fantasi...

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