On the Importance of Retellings, a Guest Post by Laura MacDonald
I think there are a myriad of ways to consider a story a “retelling.” It could be a contemporary retelling of a classic tale (such as Ella Enchanted as a […]
I think there are a myriad of ways to consider a story a “retelling.” It could be a contemporary retelling of a classic tale (such as Ella Enchanted as a […]
My mother taught me to shoot, but it was Auntie Rosa who bought me my first rifle. It was long and sleek and shiny, varnished wood and brass and just […]
At the end of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s A Little Princess, Sara Crewe leaves Miss Minchin’s Select Seminary, where she had begun as a cossetted pupil before being savagely stripped of her […]
Hardcover, 464 pages Published September 15th 2015 by HarperTeen Source: Library If you’ve been reading us for a while, you’ll remember that one of the first essays I posted on […]
Hardcover, 128 pages Published September 22nd 2015 by First Second Source: Publisher From classics like “The Tortoise and the Hare” and “The Grasshopper and the Ants” to obscure gems like […]
The bare bones of the Twa Sisters ballad goes something like this:* two sisters walk by the water’s edge the elder pushes the younger in the younger sister drowns Most variants, […]
Alison Croggon is the author of the young adult fantasy quartet, The Books of Pellinor. The first volume was nominated in two categories in the Aurealis Awards for Excellence in […]
Cassandra White has a Master of Creative Writing, Publishing and Editing from the University of Melbourne in Australia. Her particular academic interests are the gothic and sisterhood in young adult […]
Exactly half a month ago, on September 15th, 2015, the blog Reading While White launched its first official post, titled, “Why a White Blog?” I was floored. In this starting […]
Last week I talked about the sources of reluctance in reluctant readers. Today I offer one of the ways in which to, if not remove, then challenge this reluctance. Sometimes, […]