Monthly Archives: February 2009

Revisiting the Shire – Carol Kendall’s Minnipins

Posted on February 21, 2009 by Iain

The Minnipins (republished as the first part in a series, The Whisper of Glocken (Carol Kendall’s Tales of the Minnipins) ) is an odd book from an American author, Carol Kendall, but one which reflects the debate in the US … Continue reading →

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The darkness of Peter Pan – Penelope Farmer’s The Summer Birds

Posted on February 19, 2009 by Iain

Penelope Farmer‘s The Summer Birds, published in 1971, is a strange book which features Charlotte and Emma Makepeace, now best known from Charlotte Sometimes. Thematically it continues the idea of loss of childhood innocence and the idea that the summer … Continue reading →

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Pencilling the world – Marianne Dreams by Catherine Storr

Posted on February 17, 2009 by Iain

Catherine Storr‘s Marianne Dreams echoes the sickness and need to remake the world but tempers it with the cruelty of children. Storr comments on the change world where horse and cart no longer delivers the milk but an electric float … Continue reading →

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Reliving the Past

Posted on February 15, 2009 by Iain

Pauline Clarke‘s The Twelve and the Genii (Faber, London, 1962) is a story about making the domestic world storyable and the present intersecting with the past. Max finds twelve soldiers in the loft and reanimates them through his imagination, concealing … Continue reading →

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