could present everyday people caught up in supernatural situations just as naturally as she permits the realistic details of everyday life to obtrude into her world of fantasy.Ī good case could be made for E. The book is a treasure itself, a slice of Edwardian life. White’s Mistress Masham’s Repose, Wee Gillis, by Munro Leaf and Robert Lawson, a slew of books by Esther Averill and, of course, the incomparable Ms. New York Review Books deserves a medal for its burgeoning collection of reissues of out-of-print children’s books, books that need to see the light of day in the hands of a new generations of readers, books such as T. Her children are very real children and she was quite a groundbreaker in her day. Nesbit-I think she is great and I identify with the way that she writes. episodic and sometimes picaresque, shrugging off the moralizing that was native to young people’s literature of the time, in favor of privileging a child’s logic and point of view. book after book, rearranged with enough invention and emotional intelligence to become one of the most celebrated children’s authors of the Edwardian decade. Melanie McDonagh, The Year's Best Children's Books, The Spectator (UK) The Mouldiwarp, a mole-like curmudgeon, isn’t quite as good as the Psammead of Five Children and It but it too unlocks magic for Edred and Elfrida, two children in search of treasure. Nesbit’s The House of Arden and what a terrific story it is. Finally, the admirable New York Review Children’s collection has a new edition of E.
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