International Companion Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature
books, the Sam Pig stories. She strongly denied that she had tried to humanise animals: Animals are mysteries, a race apart... T ...
to humans; and although Grace has her apron, fur coat, mouse tippet and cornflower hat, Orlando wears, and needs to wear, nothin ...
You’ve got to be careful you don’t cross the invisible dividing line and make the animal do things it couldn’t possibly do—for i ...
Nevertheless, the most constant encounters with animals in modern children’s literature is through the picture book. Almost inva ...
Cott, J. (1984) Pipers at the Gates of Dawn: The Wisdom of Children’s Literature, Harmondsworth: Viking. Darton, F.J. H. (1992/1 ...
23 Real Gardens with Imaginary Toads: Domestic Fantasy Louisa Smith Children’s literature of the fantastic suggests either high ...
and frequently is, the vehicle for moral teaching, made all the more relevant by fantasy’s proximity to reality. There are two v ...
it did. The parent Banks are kept in the dark; when Jane tries to tell her mother about shopping with the Pleiads, for example, ...
to be someone else—focusing particularly on the adult—child divide. In Vice Versa, the emphasis is on the father learning how aw ...
Thus American fantasy writers set their work in different countries, as for example, Nancy Bond’s A String in the Harp (1984) is ...
Pook’s Hill (1906) is intended to educate more subtly. The setting, around Kipling’s own house, Bateman’s in Sussex, England pro ...
configured family is on stronger footing. As C.W.Sullivan suggests, ‘without the traditional Welsh materials, A String in the Ha ...
References Anstey, F. (1893) Vice Versa: A Lesson to Fathers, London: Smith, Elder. Bond, M. (1958) A Bear Called Paddington, Lo ...
24 High Fantasy C.W.Sullivan III The literary or compound term ‘high fantasy’ is enormously evocative, and like most evocative t ...
fantasy as that fantasy ‘set in a secondary world...as opposed to Low Fantasy which contains supernatural intrusions into the “r ...
The secondary world of high fantasy can not be totally fantastic, however, or the reader would not be able to understand a word ...
which would be recognisable to a medieval Briton, and the ideals are a distillation of those which have come down to the twentie ...
sagas, is generally acknowledged to be the first to have brought the elements of traditional narrative together in novel form to ...
works, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (1883), and The Story of King Arthur and His Knights (1903), reinvigorated traditional ...
novel, with the dragon slain, the treasure recovered, and order restored, Bilbo knows a great deal more about the secondary worl ...
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