The Magic of Reality

The Magic of Reality

The Magic of Reality back to IBBYLink Summer 2018 Piers Torday In Philip Pullman’s recent collection of essays on storytelling, Daemon Voices {2017), discussing the challenge of ‘Writing Fantasy Realistically’, and the differences between the literary realism of a...
Magical Reality in Children’s Fiction

Magical Reality in Children’s Fiction

Magical Reality in Children’s Fiction back to IBBYLink Summer 2018 Penny Thomas As Maria Merryweather arrives at her estranged uncle’s west-country mansion of Moonacre Manor she thinks for a fleeting moment that she sees a little white horse at the far end of a glade...
Visual Magic Realism

Visual Magic Realism

Visual Magic Realism Jardins pp.26–27. Copyright © Roger Mello. back to IBBYLink Summer 2018 Roger Mello Magic realism does have a strong equivalent in illustration. If magic realism is the possibility of inter-penetration between reality and fiction, or the...