A Magazine of Children’s and Young Adult Literature
Reviews of fiction, poetry, performance art and criticism.
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 …
One reason why this animated movie was so well received by the critics and the general public is that it has a little for everyone: children just love the dreamy and idealistic little rabbit Judy Hopps, in combination with the slick and cunning fox, Nick Wilde. As for the grown-ups… 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 …
In ”Peter Rabbit, the Movie” the gentle tone of the classic tale has been replaced by a more dynamic and funny tone, as befits contemporary times. Read on …
If you were a character, how would you feel meeting your creator, the author that invented you? Read on …
A fairy tale for adults, ”Into the Woods” intertwines several stories, such as “Cinderella”, “Little Red Riding Hood”, “Rapunzel” and “Jack and the Beanstalk”. Read on …
A comparative analysis of the way Lewis Carroll’s Alice books were adapted cinematically by Walt Disney and Tim Burton. Despite the time distance, the two adaptation share a concern with the question of identity and nonsense. 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 …
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 …