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 Penderwicks. Show all posts

Showing posts with label BOOK Penderwicks. Show all posts

12 February 2009

Penderwicks Under the Influence

Page 1 of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women : “‘Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents,’ grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.” P...

09 February 2009

And the Consequences Were Dreadful

In my taxonomy of narrative voices , the one Jeanne Birdsall chose for The Penderwicks is omniscient. The Point of View shifts among the f...

06 February 2009

Penderwicks in the Past

Jeanne Birdsall ’s The Penderwicks is nominally set in the present day. Yet the omniscient narrator starts: “For a long time after that sum...

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