Farah Mendlesohn at Green College, March 11, 2016
The Rhetorics of Fantasy and the Rhetorics of Social Justice That is the title of the talk Farah Mendlesohn, Professor and Head of Department in the Department of English, Communication, Film […]
Category Archives: Critical
Watch the Film?: Meditation on Adaptation (The Maze Runner)
I am what you would call an advocate for the book. I remember once noting this to a professor who asked me why I thought that film was a lesser media […]
Why We Read
There are perhaps no days of our childhood so fully lived as those we spent with a favourite book. -:-Marcel Proust-:- The theme for this month at The Book Wars […]
Realistic Stories: The Next Big Thing?
I’m often asked – whether while working at Kaleidoscope or at conferences or in general conversation – what’s the next big thing going to be in children’s and young adult literature? […]
Chocolate and Honey: Disenfranchised Teachers and Children in Harry Potter and Matilda
Today’s September School Stories post is from guest contributor Jaquelin Elliott. Not only has she covered for me this Friday, but she has also written up a great post that fits the […]
Crossover Readers: When Adults Read Children’s Literature
Before I begin this article, let me state that all the regular contributors and writers at The Book Wars are either children’s literature specialists or are working towards becoming children’s […]
The Friendship Dilemma
Dearest Reader, As this month’s theme is love, I bring to you a post about friendship, a platonic love but still love, a topic that YA novels do not consider in […]
Romance or Dystopia? A Rumination…
War. Death. Despair. Oppression. Environmental ruin and… Romance? When it comes to demoralizing literature, dystopian novels have it all, and that’s why we love them! However, more recently, as in […]
Food in Utopia and Dystopia: A-Musing
Food. It’s just one of those things that is either taken for granted, or isn’t. It is a basic necessity, at the very bottom of Maslow’s triangle (with water and […]
The Importance of Motivation: Why the Giver sent Jonas to his doom
NOTE** this is a guest post I wrote for Rate Your Story an awesome blog for aspiring writers :) I sat down and read Lois Lowry’s Newbery award winning The Giver […]
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