A Magazine of Children’s and Young Adult Literature
Humans are not aware that each animal keeps the memory of its ancestor alive. Even if people have named species, these animals already had a primeval appellation. Wolves call themselves Cánaalah after their ancestor, the Canid. Cánaalian legends say that Cernunnos… Read on …
I think “The Lorax” is a good story for nowadays society. First written in 1971, the story written by Dr. Seuss is rather suggestive: everything depends on us; everything depends on our choice to change small things and then, to change the world. The movie produced by Chris Renaud and Kyle Balda outstretches the plot on more topics. Read on …
To get to this village she had to pass through the North Forest. She was not afraid; she took her father’s dagger, had some poisonous plant extracts in liquid form (that is, if she was attacked, she could just throw something on that person’s skin to cause burns or rashes) and carried her viper-poison ointment in case she got hurt. Read on …
Selected and Translated by Keith Gessen and Anna Summers “My stories are a mirror. People see themselves in them. If they see evil, it means they’re evil. If they see good, it means they’re good.” (Petrushevskaya qtd. in Guzeva 2018) Mysterious, unpredictable, hallucinating, brutal, yet honest, empathic and preserving a pure and direct style – Read on …
Selena‘s favourite haunts on the literary world wide web. Read on …