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by Augusta Baker Photo: Mimi Forsyth.The Slave Dancer is Paula Fox's first historical novel, though she has written fourteen books, eleven for children and three for adults. The novel is set in 1840 but its vividness reaches beyond the past — beyond the horror, the cruelty, and the ugliness of...
by Paula FoxNearly all the work of writing is silent. A writer does it alone. And the original intention — that first sudden stirring of one's imagination — is made up of many small, almost always humble, things. Because a major effort of writing is reflection, which is silent and...
From School Library Journal, May 1974. © 1974 R. R. Bowker Company/A Xerox Corporation. Reprinted with permission.By Lillian N. GerhardtInnumerable commentators on children’s books plug the idea that children’s books are part of “…the mainstream of American literature.” The authors, illustrators, publishers, reviewers, and librarians who have employed or applauded...
By Astrid LindgrenSo, you’re going to write a children’s book? You’re not the only one. Plenty of people who can hold a pen — and more than a few who can’t — get it into their heads every now and again that now is the time to set about writing...
In an article that began in October 1972 and continued in our next two issues (see part II and part III), Eleanor Cameron criticized the theories of Marshall McLuhan, whose writings on media were much debated at the time, and decried what she saw as their expression in Charlie and the...
Editorial by Paul HeinsAs was to be expected, the controversy between Roald Dahl and Eleanor Cameron regarding Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, along with the editorial in the February issue of The Horn Book Magazine, has stirred up a buzz of controversy. At present, it appears that the intensely felt responses from Horn Book readers...
By Eleanor CameronMr. Dahl states in his reply to my article “McLuhan, Youth, and Literature”: Part I (Horn Book, October 1972) that I have made a personal attack upon him. I had no intention of attacking Mr. Dahl personally. Concerning Eudora Welty, it is true that I believe in what she has to say...
By Roald DahlMrs. Eleanor Cameron (I had not heard of her until now) has made some extraordinarily vicious comments upon my book Charlie and The Chocolate Factory (Knopf) in the October issue of this magazine. That does not worry me at all. She is free to criticize the book itself...
Editorial by Paul HeinsOne of the strangest and most unexpected communications ever received by the editor of The Horn Book Magazine consists of pages 433 to 440 of the October 1972 issue ripped out from the body of the magazine, stapled together, and headed by the words “In protest.” It...
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