Monthly Archives: February 2009
Revisiting the Shire – Carol Kendall’s Minnipins
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
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
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
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