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.

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08 May 2013

When Fanfiction Took Over British Children’s Publishing

The Horn Book just published Caroline Fraser’s excoriation of how Penguin has recently exploited Beatrix Potter’s Peter Rabbit with an ag...

22 March 2011

New Nesbit and Another Nesbit News Bit

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

12 August 2007

Good Old Beautiful Phoenix

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...

30 May 2006

E. Nesbit and the language barrier

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

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