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azteclady May 8

“When Barnett rails against the ‘didacticism’ of some books, we wonder who defines didactic? For Black and brown authors, for queer and trans authors, we have seen that very word used as a cudgel and dog whistle to decry the necessary diversification of children’s literature.”

#Writing #KidLit #ChildrensLit #Racism

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-authors/article/100361-children-s-book-community-responds-in-outrage-to-comment-by-national-ambassador-mac-barnett.html

Children’s Book Community Responds in Outrage to Mac Barnett Comments

Children’s authors and educators are up in arms after words by National Ambassador for Young People's Literature Mac Barnett, from his new essay collection for adults, 'Make Believe: On Telling Stories to Children,' cast aspersions on the vast majority of work published for young readers.

PublishersWeekly.com

Penny Richards Mar 22

This weekend I started #wikipedia articles on Baltimore-born sisters Elizabeth Gutman Kaye (1887-1971) and Adele Gutman Nathan (1889-1986); Elizabeth was a singer and artist, and Adele was a theatrical director who wrote more than a dozen children's books on history topics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Gutman_Kaye
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adele_Gutman_Nathan
@wikiwomeninred @wikimediadc #baltimore #WomeninMusic #Soprano #Pageants #Theatre #WomenWriters #ChildrensLit

Simon Roy Hughes 🧌 ⬋⬋⬋Mar 21

Good- and Gentlefolk,

I give you the grandest nursery song ever to be penned in Merry England:

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Tommy_Thumb%27s_Pretty_Song_Book

#Folklore #Reading #ChildrensLit #NurseryRhyme

CurlyGeek Mar 10

ARC Review: Judy Blume: A Life by Mark Oppenheimer #bookreviews #reading #childrenslit #NetGalley #youngadult #readingjewishly #nonficreadingchal

https://thebookstop.wordpress.com/2026/03/10/arc-review-judy-blume-a-life-by-mark-oppenheimer/

ARC Review: Judy Blume: A Life by Mark Oppenheimer

I very rarely read biographies, preferring to learn about people through their own words. I wondered why Blume didn’t write her own story, but I learned that she prefers not to write nonfiction, an…

The Book Stop

WIST Quotations Feb 11

A quotation from Madeleine L'Engle

The writer whose words are going to be read by children has a heavy responsibility. And yet, despite the undeniable fact that the children’s minds are tender, they are also far more tough than many people realize, and they have an openness and an ability to grapple with difficult concepts which many adults have lost. Writers of children’s literature are set apart by their willingness to confront difficult questions.

Madeleine L'Engle (1918-2007) American writer
Speech (1983-11-16), “Dare To Be Creative,” Lecture, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

More about this quote: wist.info/lengle-madeleine/819…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #madeleinelengle #kidlit #childrenslit #childrensliterature #adults #author #boldness #children #concepts #engagement #genre #literature #stimulation #writer #writing

L'Engle, Madeleine - Speech (1983-11-16), "Dare To Be Creative," Lecture, Library of Congress, Washington, DC | WIST Quotations

The writer whose words are going to be read by children has a heavy responsibility. And yet, despite the undeniable fact that the children’s minds are tender, they are also far more tough than many people realize, and they have an openness and an ability to grapple with difficult concepts…

WIST Quotations

Assoc for Scottish Literature Dec 10

Many of George MacDonald’s works are available for download via @gutenberg_org

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/127

#Scottish #literature #Victorian #19thCentury #fantasty #childrenslit

Books by MacDonald, George

Project Gutenberg offers 77,251 free eBooks for Kindle, iPad, Nook, Android, and iPhone.

Project Gutenberg

Assoc for Scottish Literature Dec 10

RETHINKING GEORGE MACDONALD
Contexts & Contemporaries

16 essays on MacDonald’s place in the Victorian literary scene, his engagement with the works of his contemporaries, & his interest in the social, political, & theological movements of his age—also online via Project MUSE

5/5

https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/occasional_papers/rethinking_george_macdonald/

#Scottish #literature #Victorian #19thCentury #fantasty #childrenslit

Assoc for Scottish Literature Dec 10

Mark Twain & George MacDonald: The Salty & the Sweet

“Both SIR GIBBIE and HUCKLEBERRY FINN explore questions of ethics & truth through the life of an unusually bright & unusually unfortunate boy […] and they have at least twenty plot elements in common.”

—Kathryn Lindskoog explores the connections between the works of George MacDonald & Mark Twain.

3/5

https://www.discovery.org/a/853/

#Scottish #literature #Victorian #19thCentury #fantasty #childrenslit #Twain #MarkTwain

Mark Twain and George MacDonald: The Salty and the Sweet

From The Mark Twain Journal, Volume 30, Number 2 (published August 1994) The unknown connection between two of C. S. Lewis’s favorite books, Sir Gibbie and Huckleberry Finn.

Discovery Institute

Assoc for Scottish Literature Dec 10

“If we think about how women are portrayed in [MacDonald’s] fiction, we can see that women are shown to, repeatedly, rescue men. Men are taught by women, challenged by women, and also challenged to think about women in different ways.”

—An interview with Dr Kirstin Jeffrey Johnson on George MacDonald’s life & work.

2/5

https://www.radixmagazine.com/2021/11/09/interview-with-kirstin-jeffrey-johnson/

#Scottish #literature #Victorian #19thCentury #fantasty #childrenslit

George MacDonald: a Life of Relationships – Radix Magazine

Assoc for Scottish Literature Dec 10

George MacDonald (1824–1905) was born #OTD, 10 Dec. One of the earliest theorists of the fantastic, & grandfather of modern fantasy literature, he was read & admired by CS Lewis, JRR Tolkien & Madeleine L’Engle, among others

🎨 : Cecilia Harrison (1863–1941)

🧵 1/5

https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/3082

#Scottish #literature #Victorian #19thCentury #fantasty #childrenslit #CSLewis #Tolkien