Painted Desert, Green Shade: Essays on Contemporary Writers of Fiction for Children and Young Adults

by David Rees

Rees attempts to "cast a retrospective light" on thirteen British and American writers for young people: L.M. Boston, M.E. Kerr, Betsy Byars, Ted Hughes, Jan Mark, Jane Langton, Katherine Paterson, John Rowe Townsend, Robert Westall, S.E. Hinton, Russell Hoban, Peter Dickinson, and Virginia Hamilton.

197 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1984

About the author

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David Rees was born in London in 1936, but lived most of his adult life in Devon, where for many years he taught English Literature at Exeter University and at California State University, San Jose. In 1984, he took early retirement in order to write full-time. Author of forty-two books, he is best known for his children's novel The Exeter Blitz, which in 1978 was awarded the Carnegie Medal (UK), and The Milkman's On His Way, which, having survived much absurd controversy in Parliament, is now regarded as something of a gay classic. He also won The Other Award (UK) for his historical novel The Green Bough of Liberty. David Rees died in 1993.