A Magazine of Children’s and Young Adult Literature
Analyses, presentations and debates, around a theme.
Michael Pollan proves to be versatile enough to devise two versions of The Omnivore’s Dilemma: the initial one, subtitled A Natural History of Four Meals, written for adults and a second one, subtitled The Secrets Behind What You Eat which is an abridged and rewritten Young Readers Edition, meant for a juvenile audience. Of course, in the latter version the disturbing details of … Read on …
Some of you might be repelled by such a subject. If it is so, my advice for you is not to judge a book by its covers, but to read it closely, as you may never know who you’ll fall in love with. You will never know what similarities you can find between yourself and the creatures that scare you. Read on …
E.B. White’s tale of a wild trumpeter swan born without a voice celebrates his love of wildlife and the outdoors. A story of acceptance and of choosing kindness, that captivates young readers and makes them accept disability and difference. Read on …
The title of the text recalls the “Sleeping Beauty” fairy tale. The text also preserves two of its most important characters: the sleeper and the wake‑r. The girl’s condition that forces her to stay captive in an antiseptic bubble is symbolic for the princess who is held captive in her own sleep. Read on …
With ”The Girl, the Wolf, the Crone,” Kellie Wells rewrote the story of Little Red Riding Hood, presenting it as a corrupt version of the story by changing the gender roles. She states that with this version, she tried to make it “kind of garishly lit, demi-lucid dream”, Read on …
If you were a character, how would you feel meeting your creator, the author that invented you? Read on …
He senses she is curious and there is only certain path she could take, the path where he leads her to. The other half is an anticipation of the murder. This is what he longs for. 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 …
Throughout time, mythology and folklore have served as inspiration for literature due to their thematic complexity and richness in characters. There are various authors who have introduced mythological elements within their literary works in order to point out the hidden meanings and universal truths. Some of the most well-known characters who are used to convey Read on …
Manuela Stănescu’s study The Twelve Dancing Princesses or The Shoes That Were Danced to Pieces (Montessori, 2017) is, a comparative analysis of four variants of the well-known fairy tales. Read on …