A Magazine of Children’s and Young Adult Literature
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 …
If you were a character, how would you feel meeting your creator, the author that invented you? 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 …