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lady_schrapnellFrom Farah Mendlesohn's Inter-Galactic Playground.
Is it a meme if only I play (or really a me-me!)? This is a panel I missed, as I was (aging) fangirling at a Connie Willis signing - time well spent, for all I'd love to have been at this one too.
I've bolded books I've read, with a question mark beside if I'm not entirely sure about having read, and a X beside if I have a Thought about the book of one sort or another.
Greer Gilman
Mary Poppins Comes Back, Mary Poppins in the Park, Mary Poppins Opens the Door,Mary Poppins in Cherry Tree Lane, PL Travers. X
The Princess and The Goblin, George MacDonald (1872).
Lion, William Pène Dubois, (a picture book).
Peter Graves, William Pène du Bois, (1950).
The Little White Horse, Elizabeth Goudge, (1946). X
The Amazing Vacation, Dan Wickenden (1956).
The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm, Norman Hunter, (1933).
The Nine Questions, Edward Fenton, Doubleday, illustrations by C. Walter Hodges (1959).
Francis Spufford
The Blue Hawk, Peter Dickinson (1976).
Charlotte Sometimes, Penelope Farmer (1969).? X
The Magic City, E. Nesbit, (1910).X
The Guardians, John Christopher (1970).
The Heritage of the Star, Sylvia Engdahl, (1973).
Terry Pratchett
Moomintroll series, Tove Jansson, Fin Family Moomintroll and others.X
Mistress Masham’s Repose, TH White, (1947).
The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death, Daniel Pinkwater.
Midnight Folk (1927) and The Box of Delights, (1935) John Masefield.
Star in the Hand, Elizabeth Stucley (1954).
The Little Grey Men, (1988) "BB," 1905- (D. J. Watkins-Pitchford).?
The Wizard of Boland, "BB," 1905- (D. J. Watkins-Pitchford).
The Griffin and the Minor Canon, Frank Stockton (1963).
Brendon Chase, "BB," 1905- (D. J. Watkins-Pitchford), (1979).
Janet McNaughton
The Live-Forever Machine, Kenneth Oppel, HarperCollins Canada, (1990; 2001).
Dead Water Zone, Kenneth Oppel, HarperCollins Canada, (1992; 2001).
Dust, Arthur Slade, HarperCollins Canada (2001).
Acceleration, Graham McNamee, Random House, (2003).
The Prince of Tarn, Hazel Hutchins, 1997. (A junior novel).
The Marmawell Trilogy: The Dragon’s Tapestry, Red Deer Press, The Prism Moon, (1993),
The Taker’s Key, Red Deer Press, (1998), Martine Leavitt [Martine Bates].
Other Suggested Titles
Space Cat, Ruthven Todd (1957).
George MacDonald, The Princess and Curdy (1877), Back of the North Wind (1871).
The Church Mice, a series beginning in 1972, Graham Oakley.
Alexander and the Magic Mouse by Martha Sanders, (1969).
I really, really wish I'd heard Greer Gilman talking about the Mary Poppins books. I loved them when I was young, but had the strangest feeling when I tried reading them to the girls: a vivid, even visceral, response from the wonder I'd felt when first reading, and a kind of disappointment, which amounted almost to distaste running alongside. Very odd. Now that time has passed, I might try again and see how I feel. Or find out how other people feel and see if that helps!
Not sure my Thought about Elizabeth Goudge amounts to much - I reread The Little White Horse recently-ish, and found it just about at the border of my sentimental/precious limits, though there were still things I really liked a lot about it.
Charlotte Sometimes is a book I've read so much about I'm not at all sure any longer that I haven't read. Or perhaps that's backwards. Anyway, it's a need to read/reread book, I think.
The 'X' beside the E. Nesbit is just a sort of gulp equivalent, as I'd read most of the children's books Francis Spufford talked about in his book and on panels where I heard him! And most E. Nesbit too...
Moomintroll 'X' is for most enthusiastic agreement of all my enthusiastic agreements (probably - to hedge my decisiveness a bit, in my usual way).
I'd never heard of Star in the Hand, and no time to look it up now - anyone else read it? JMcN seems to have been on a slightly different track than the others - now that I think of it, she seemed less prone to giving her own childhood reads on panels I heard too. Maybe that's inaccurate though... I'd like to have heard hers anyway.
Is it a meme if only I play (or really a me-me!)? This is a panel I missed, as I was (aging) fangirling at a Connie Willis signing - time well spent, for all I'd love to have been at this one too.
I've bolded books I've read, with a question mark beside if I'm not entirely sure about having read, and a X beside if I have a Thought about the book of one sort or another.
Greer Gilman
Mary Poppins Comes Back, Mary Poppins in the Park, Mary Poppins Opens the Door,Mary Poppins in Cherry Tree Lane, PL Travers. X
The Princess and The Goblin, George MacDonald (1872).
Lion, William Pène Dubois, (a picture book).
Peter Graves, William Pène du Bois, (1950).
The Little White Horse, Elizabeth Goudge, (1946). X
The Amazing Vacation, Dan Wickenden (1956).
The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm, Norman Hunter, (1933).
The Nine Questions, Edward Fenton, Doubleday, illustrations by C. Walter Hodges (1959).
Francis Spufford
The Blue Hawk, Peter Dickinson (1976).
Charlotte Sometimes, Penelope Farmer (1969).? X
The Magic City, E. Nesbit, (1910).X
The Guardians, John Christopher (1970).
The Heritage of the Star, Sylvia Engdahl, (1973).
Terry Pratchett
Moomintroll series, Tove Jansson, Fin Family Moomintroll and others.X
Mistress Masham’s Repose, TH White, (1947).
The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death, Daniel Pinkwater.
Midnight Folk (1927) and The Box of Delights, (1935) John Masefield.
Star in the Hand, Elizabeth Stucley (1954).
The Little Grey Men, (1988) "BB," 1905- (D. J. Watkins-Pitchford).?
The Wizard of Boland, "BB," 1905- (D. J. Watkins-Pitchford).
The Griffin and the Minor Canon, Frank Stockton (1963).
Brendon Chase, "BB," 1905- (D. J. Watkins-Pitchford), (1979).
Janet McNaughton
The Live-Forever Machine, Kenneth Oppel, HarperCollins Canada, (1990; 2001).
Dead Water Zone, Kenneth Oppel, HarperCollins Canada, (1992; 2001).
Dust, Arthur Slade, HarperCollins Canada (2001).
Acceleration, Graham McNamee, Random House, (2003).
The Prince of Tarn, Hazel Hutchins, 1997. (A junior novel).
The Marmawell Trilogy: The Dragon’s Tapestry, Red Deer Press, The Prism Moon, (1993),
The Taker’s Key, Red Deer Press, (1998), Martine Leavitt [Martine Bates].
Other Suggested Titles
Space Cat, Ruthven Todd (1957).
George MacDonald, The Princess and Curdy (1877), Back of the North Wind (1871).
The Church Mice, a series beginning in 1972, Graham Oakley.
Alexander and the Magic Mouse by Martha Sanders, (1969).
I really, really wish I'd heard Greer Gilman talking about the Mary Poppins books. I loved them when I was young, but had the strangest feeling when I tried reading them to the girls: a vivid, even visceral, response from the wonder I'd felt when first reading, and a kind of disappointment, which amounted almost to distaste running alongside. Very odd. Now that time has passed, I might try again and see how I feel. Or find out how other people feel and see if that helps!
Not sure my Thought about Elizabeth Goudge amounts to much - I reread The Little White Horse recently-ish, and found it just about at the border of my sentimental/precious limits, though there were still things I really liked a lot about it.
Charlotte Sometimes is a book I've read so much about I'm not at all sure any longer that I haven't read. Or perhaps that's backwards. Anyway, it's a need to read/reread book, I think.
The 'X' beside the E. Nesbit is just a sort of gulp equivalent, as I'd read most of the children's books Francis Spufford talked about in his book and on panels where I heard him! And most E. Nesbit too...
Moomintroll 'X' is for most enthusiastic agreement of all my enthusiastic agreements (probably - to hedge my decisiveness a bit, in my usual way).
I'd never heard of Star in the Hand, and no time to look it up now - anyone else read it? JMcN seems to have been on a slightly different track than the others - now that I think of it, she seemed less prone to giving her own childhood reads on panels I heard too. Maybe that's inaccurate though... I'd like to have heard hers anyway.
