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Children's Literature
The power of children's literature reaches its young audience through disciplined values and repetition. How many times have we read a book over and over as a child, or to our children? Experts say that there is something in the story which the child needs to hear constantly--perhaps a value to be taught or a sense of belonging. Therefore, March is Children's Literature Month at Literary Traveler--we encourage our readers to journey with us to a time of innocence, and remember a story which captured their young hearts. Play dress-up at Junibacken, the Swedish museum dedicated to Pippi Longstocking; morph from a lamb into a tiger through William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience; or skip through the Parisian streets with a tiny red-haired Madeline--the choice is yours.
Robert McCloskey: Alive With Wonder In Maine
Author: Robert McCloskey
In Robert McCloskey's children's books, Maine is a place where life moves with the shifting tides and seasons. It is a place where a hill thick with blueberries comes alive with curious surprises. Yet it is also a place that requires work, where you need to row a boat to the mainland to buy milk or repair engines, and batten down the hatches when a storm blows in.
Posted on Wed, Feb 28, 2007
Faith Ringgold's Tar Beach: A Literary Review
Author: Faith Ringgold
Faith Ringgold, foremost famous for her status as a highly influential black female artist, accomplishes capturing the power of a child's imagination in her now children's classic, Tar Beach. Ringgold, who wrote Tar Beach in 1991, was initially renowned for her art, particularly how she portrayed the black female in America, through a series of quilts she called "Woman on a Bridge," which debuted at the Guggenheim.
Posted on Wed, Jan 31, 2007
E. B. White: A Shy Man Fond of Creatures
Author: E.B. White
Like many other famous writers, E.B. White (1899-1985) was a shy man. He avoided most parties and public appearances. He didn't want people to find him or his home in North Brooklin, Maine. In his latter days, he stopped giving interviews. In 1977, he convinced the reporter Herbert Mitgang to write, "To discourage visitors, we hereby report that he lives in 'a New England coastal town,' somewhere between Nova Scotia and Cuba."
Posted on Fri, Sep 08, 2006
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) in Oxford
Author: Lewis Carroll
Literary Oxford
Oxford, the City of Dreaming Spires, is undoubtedly one of the jewels in England's crown. Its striking mix of architectural styles, academic atmosphere, and peaceful gardens and river walks make it the perfect place to pause and view England as it was meant to be. But for the literary traveler, Oxford is more than just Olde England, it is a true gem, and at just forty-five minutes from London by train, it is an absolute must-see.
Posted on Tue, Feb 21, 2006
Still an Inspiration: James Whitcomb Riley's Legacy
Just east of Indianapolis; sandwiched between corn fields and soybean crops; a few hundred feet from the Old National Road (US 40) rests the James Whitcomb Riley Old Home and Museum. The poet was born in the house on October 7, 1849. The dwelling was originally a log cabin, but as his father's law practice grew, and the family grew, the Rileys replaced the cabin with a two-story home with green shutters.
Posted on Fri, Apr 01, 2005
The Romantic Life of Hans Christian Andersen
Author: Hans Christian Andersen
Millions of people recognize Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) as the author of over a hundred famous children's tales, but only a few people know the man behind the stories. The true Andersen was certainly not a writer of the happily-ever-after variety. Throughout his life, he was often very lonely--traveling around the earth and meeting hundreds of fascinating people, but never truly finding a person to share his life with.
Posted on Sat, Jun 01, 2002
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Author: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Cross Creek belongs to the wind and the rain, to the sun and the seasons, to the cosmic secrecy of seed, and beyond all, to time. So ends the book, Cross Creek, written by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.
Posted on Wed, Jan 05, 2000
Carl Sandburg's Connemara
Author: Carl Sandburg
Twenty-four miles south of Asheville in Flat Rock, NC, there once lived a Midwestern poet that wrote for the common man. His name was Carl Sandburg. He was a Pulitzer Prize winning poet & biographer, most famous for his Chicago Poems, American Songbag and massive biography of Abraham Lincoln.
Posted on Thu, Jul 01, 1999
Remembering the Alcotts
Author: Louisa May Alcott
The New England landscape and communities that Louisa May Alcott both cherished and used as inspiration for her writing have changed drastically in the intervening years. Today, two museums remain dedicated to exploring and explaining the lives of the Alcott family: The Fruitlands and Orchard House.
Posted on Thu, Jul 01, 1999
Beatrix Potter - More Than Just Bunnies: The Legacy of Beatrix Potter
Author: Beatrix Potter
Beatrix Potter may be best known as the creator of charming characters like Peter Rabbit, Mrs. Tiggy Winkle and Hunca Munca, but, as is true in most lives, she was in reality many other things, as well. A product of Victorian times, she far surpassed societal expectations of women of her era and class. She was an accomplished botanical illustrator, a sheep breeder and farmer, a wife, and a conservationist greatly devoted to her home, the Lake District of England.
Posted on Thu, Mar 25, 1999
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