by IBBY | Sep 13, 2017 | IBBYLink Summer 2017
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More back to IBBYLink Summer 2017 June Hopper Swain 2017 sees the fortieth anniversary of The Wonderful World of Henry Sugar and Six More (1977), a collection of short stories, varied in mood and content and often with a...
by IBBY | Sep 13, 2017 | IBBYLink Summer 2017
The Women’s Suffrage Movement in Children’s Fiction: Social Class in the Struggle for the Vote back to IBBYLink Summer 2017 Ann Lazim 2018 will see the centenary of British women over 30 getting the vote after a long struggle. It was another ten years...
by IBBY | Sep 13, 2017 | IBBYLink Summer 2017
The Ravenmaster’s Boy back to IBBYLink Summer 2017 Mary Hoffman It all began with the opening image. A child, a boy of under seven, so still dressed in skirts, is wedged on a plague cart between the bodies of his mother and father. But he is alive. This horrific...
by IBBY | Sep 13, 2017 | IBBYLink Summer 2017
George Alfred Henty Writing the Past back to IBBYLink Summer 2017 Rachel E. Johnson Spanning over half a century, the work of George Alfred Henty was amongst the most popular reading material chosen by young people, both boys and girls, in the second half of the...
by IBBY | Sep 13, 2017 | IBBYLink Summer 2017
Past Imperfect: A Look at Children’s Historical Fiction back to IBBYLink Summer 2017 Dawn Finch In March 2017 the Society of Authors hosted an event from the Histeria Group; a group of children’s writers who are primarily writing historical fiction. The event...
by IBBY | Sep 13, 2017 | IBBYLink Summer 2017
Children’s Historical Fiction in Ten (+1) Quotes back to IBBYLink Summer 2017 Clive Barnes 1. ‘History is more or less bunk’: Henry Ford As good a place as any to start. Children’s historical fiction has never been that popular with readers or critics. It’s had...
