Storytime
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March, by Geraldine Brooks
Viking Press, 2005
Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy: The Story of Little Women and Why It Still Matters
by Anne Boyd Rioux
Thorndike Press, 2018
The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls by Joan Jacobs Brumberg
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2010
Articles
‘How Little Women got big’, by Joan Acocella, The New Yorker,
27 August 2018
‘Little Women at 150 and the patriarch who shaped the book’s tone’, by Ryna Ordynat, The Conversation, 7 November 2018
‘We’re sorry to say that Little Women is not a feminist novel’, by Hillary Kelly, Vulture, 28 September 2018
Film
Little Women, BBC TV adaptation directed by Vanessa Caswill, 2017
Little Women, film directed by Greta Gerwig, 2019
Chapter Eight
Books
The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame
My edition: Classic Mammoth, 2000
The Annotated Wind in the Willows, edited by Annie Gauger
W. W. Norton & Company Inc, 2009
Wild Wood, by Jan Needle
John Murray, 1989
The Making of the Wind in the Willows, by Peter Hunt
Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, 2018
Articles
‘Kenneth Grahame: Lost in the Wild Wood’, by John Preston, The Telegraph, 10 February 2008
‘The 100 best novels written in English’, by Robert McCrum, The Guardian, 2014
‘“I’ll do whatever you like, Ratty”: Wind in the Willows “was author Kenneth Grahame’s gay manifesto”’, by Rod Ardehali, The Daily Mail, 28 January 2018
Chapter Nine
Books
The Enchanted Castle, by E. Nesbit
My edition: Puffin, 1994
Magic and the Magician: E. Nesbit and her Children’s Books, by Noel Streatfeild
Ernest Benn, 1958
The Children’s Book, by A. S. Byatt
Chatto & Windus, 2009
Long Ago When I Was Young, by E. Nesbit
Dial Books, 1987; first published as a serial in Girl’s Own Paper, 1896–97
Essay
‘The writing of E. Nesbit’, by Gore Vidal, New York Review of Books, 1964
Chapter Ten
Books
The Magic Pudding, by Norman Lindsay
My edition: Angus & Robertson, 1969
100th birthday edition, Angus & Robertson, 2018
The New York Review Children’s Collection, with Philip Pullman introduction, 2004
Redheap, by Norman Lindsay
Faber and Faber, 1930
The Age of Consent, by Norman Lindsay
Farrar & Rinehart, 1938
The Complete Adventures of Blinky Bill, by Dorothy Wall
TBS The Book Service Ltd; first published 1939
The Complete Adventures of Snugglepot and Cuddlepie, by May Gibbs
100th anniversary edition, HarperCollins, 2018
Digit Dick and the Tasmanian Devil, by Leslie Rees
Lansdowne Press, 1982; first published 1942
All the Proud Tribesmen, by Kylie Tennant Macmillan, 1959
We of the Never Never, by Mrs Aeneas Gunn Hutchinson, 1908
Australian Legendary Tales, collected by K. Langloh Parker, selected and edited by Henrietta Drake-Brockman, illustrated by Elizabeth Durack
Angus & Robertson, 1953
Articles and papers
‘Unusual work of two young Sydney artists’, by Hugh McCrae, Sunday Times, 19 December 1926
‘Violent and racist undertones in early Australian children’s literature: the proof’s in the Puddin’, by Greg Watson, 2002
‘The Magic Pudding: A mirror of our fondest wishes’, by Christopher Kelen, Sydney Open Journals Online, 2007
Chapter Eleven
Books
The Warden’s Niece, by Gillian Avery
My edition: Lions, 1975
Articles
‘Young ideas’, by Marghanita Laski, The Spectator,
10 November 1961
Gillian Avery obituary by Julia Eccleshare, The Guardian,
22 February 2016
Chapter Twelve
Books
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, by C. S. Lewis
My edition: Scholastic boxed set of the Chronicles of Narnia, 1995
Other books in the series: The Magician’s Nephew; The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe; The Horse and His Boy; Prince Caspian; The Silver Chair; The Last Battle
The Tree That Sat Down, by Beverley Nichols HarperCollins, 2016
C. S. Lewis: A Biography, by A. N. Wilson HarperCollins, 2013
Chapter Thirteen
Books
Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural, edited by Phyllis Cerf Wagner and Herbert Wise
My edition: The Modern Library, 1994
The Bull from the Sea, by Mary Renault Longmans, 1962
Articles
‘A treatise on tales of horror’ by Edmund Wilson, The New Yorker, 27 May, 1944
‘These “Great Tales of Terror” live up to their promise’, Michael Dirda, National Public Radio, 24 February, 2013
Chapter Fourteen
Books
The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, by Alan Garner
My edition: Collins, 1960
50th Anniversary Edition with introduction by Philip Pullman
HarperCollins, 2010
Where Shall We Run To? A Memoir, by Alan Garner HarperCollins, 2018
Scotty in Gumnut Land, by May Gibbs
Angus & Robertson, 1956
Article
‘Alan Garner: “I just let the voice settle and listened”’, by Alex Preston, The Guardian, 5 August 2018
Lectures
‘Powsells and Thrums: The loom of creation’, by Alan Garner, the inaugural Alan Garner Lecture, 25 March 2015
‘Cybernetics and Ghosts’, by Italo Calvino, Turin, November 1967
quoted on ‘the unofficial Alan Garner website’ alangarner. atspace.org
Chapter Fifteen
Books
Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon’s Journey into the Afterlife, by Eben Alexander
Simon & Schuster, 2012
quoted in Robert Dessaix’s lecture ‘How Enid Blyton changed my life’
The Writer’s Map, edited by Huw Lewis-Jones
Thames and Hudson, 2018
Essay
‘On three ways of writing for children’ by C. S. Lewis
Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories, Harcourt, 1966