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Category Archives: Interviews
A fix of Fix – Naming of the Beasts by Mike Carey
Earlier this year, I picked up Thicker than Water by Mike Carey as I finally made time to catch up on my Felix Castor kick. I had a feeling that there was a certain amount of Carey getting Castor to … Continue reading
A lively past
Penelope Lively is interviewed by the Guardian today and talks about her work and its use of the persistence of the past. Coming from that coterie of writers who came up to Oxford after the Second World War (including Alan … Continue reading
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Michael Chabon worries about the world for children
The New York Review of Books (July 16th issue) has an essay on childhood by Michael Chabon which is currently online for free. I don’t know if it will be published in the forthcoming Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and … Continue reading
Re-organising the community
Day two of the conference was the main one with two strands in two rooms. It was also the first time that I’ve given a paper at a conference but this was fortunately done at 9am so I could kick … Continue reading
Dreaming the World
In this paper, I am going to look at two of Neil Gaiman’s children’s novels, Coraline and Mirrormask, which use the Alice books as a textual reference. When Alice wakes up from her dream at the end of Through the … Continue reading
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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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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The Harry Potter Lexicon lives
I see that Steve VanderArk has now re-written the Lexicon and RDR will be publishing the revised version, which is probably the best course of events. (Source: The Independent)
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If you go into the woods today… – The Guardian on theatrical fairy tales
Lyn Gardner, theatre critic for the Guardian, has an overview of the current run of theatrical fairy tales. One might take her to task about the Grimm’s having the originals (they anthologised them from Huguenot sources at the very least) … Continue reading
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Pullman talks to the BBC
The BBC have an interview with Philip Pullman as the stage version of his book, The Scarecrow and the Servant, begins in London’s Southwark Playhouse. It has been compiled from questions sent in by children.
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