Katherine Langrish
From Spare Oom to War Drobe Hardback Book
Guardian Summer Reading selection the 50 hottest new books everyone should read The Times 100 best books to read for summer 2021 Back in the 1960s a little girl of nine who was deeply in love with Narnia wrote a book of short stories. Written in spiky blue ink with various crossingsout and spelling mistakes, Katherine Langrishs Tales of Narnia filled an old hardcover notebook from front to back. Some of the stories were illustrated with dramatic, posterpainted scenes, and Katherine drew a map of Narnia on the inside back cover. Now a celebrated adult writer of childrens and young adults literature, Langrish has revisited C. S. Lewiss Seven Chronicles of Narnia to explore what they mean to her today. In From Spare Oom to War Drobe she analyses what once enchanted her and asks whether it still has the power to do so. Hand in hand with her nine yearold self, she traces many paths through Lewiss thick forest of allusions not only to Christianity, but to Plato, fairy tales, myths, legends, medieval romances, renaissance poetry and indeed to other childrens books.Here are two very different ways of reading the Narnia stories the adult, informed, rational way and the passionate childish way. For whenever children fall in love with a book they love it fiercely, loyally, completely and as anyone its ever happened to will know, it can be a transformative experience.The Foreword has been written by awardwinning writer and broadcaster Brian Sibley, who dramatised the BBC radio...
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Guardian Summer Reading selection the 50 hottest new books everyone should read The Times 100 best books to read for summer 2021 Back in the 1960s a little girl of nine who was deeply in love with Narnia wrote a book of short stories. Written in spiky blue ink with various crossingsout and spelling mistakes, Katherine Langrishs Tales of Narnia filled an old hardcover notebook from front to back. Some of the stories were illustrated with dramatic, posterpainted scenes, and Katherine drew a map of Narnia on the inside back cover. Now a celebrated adult writer of childrens and young adults literature, Langrish has revisited C. S. Lewiss Seven Chronicles of Narnia to explore what they mean to her today. In From Spare Oom to War Drobe she analyses what once enchanted her and asks whether it still has the power to do so. Hand in hand with her nine yearold self, she traces many paths through Lewiss thick forest of allusions not only to Christianity, but to Plato, fairy tales, myths, legends, medieval romances, renaissance poetry and indeed to other childrens books.Here are two very different ways of reading the Narnia stories the adult, informed, rational way and the passionate childish way. For whenever children fall in love with a book they love it fiercely, loyally, completely and as anyone its ever happened to will know, it can be a transformative experience.The Foreword has been written by awardwinning writer and broadcaster Brian Sibley, who dramatised the BBC radio...
Binding: Hardback;288 pages; Publisher: Darton, Longman & Todd Ltd; Classification: DSY; Weight: 536 g; Dimensions: 135 x 206 x 31
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Items of footwear and/or clothing must be unworn and unwashed with the original labels attached. Also, footwear must be tried on indoors. Items of homeware including bedlinen, mattresses, and toppers, and pillows must be unused and in their original unopened packaging. This does not affect your statutory rights.
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