Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie & Folklore in the Literature of Childhood in Into the Forest

Apr 10, 2010 Christine rated it really liked it

Shelves: literary-criticism-biography, diverse-and-women-authors, myth-and-lore-criticism-history

For some reason, I feel a desire to call for people with pitchforks and torches so we can go attack Parent Groups.

I did not know that Yolen's Briar Rose had been burned. I knew it was on a list of banned and challenged books, but I hadn't known that someone had threw it on the fire.

:growl:

The problem with people today (okay, one problem with people today, besides the fact that they are people) is that they don't read. They really don't. Everyone on this website is a bloody expection.

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Nov 01, 2012 Julia rated it really liked it

Shelves: fairies-fae-faeries, based-on-folksong-myth, illustrated, essays, non-fiction, science-fiction, fantasy, vampires-weres-witches, wishlist, reread

I'd forgotten I'd already read this. When I went to list it here, I saw the previous review. Oh well. It's hardly a difficulty to reread books I like.

"Stories lean on stories, art on art. This familiarity with the treasure- house of ancient story is necessary for any true appreciation of today's literature. A child who has never met Merlin-- how can he or she really recognize the wizards in Earthsea? The child who has never heard of Arthur -- how can he or she totally
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