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Modern writers such as Mildred D. Taylor (Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry) and Philip Pullman (the Sally Lockhart novels) have continued the tradition of the historical adventure. [10] The modern children's adventure novel sometimes deals with controversial issues like terrorism (Robert Cormier, After the First Death (1979)) [10] and warfare in ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Print Pages: 320: ISBN ... 1003998426: Beyond the Bright Sea is a 2017 children's historical adventure fiction written by the ...
The Fantastic Flying Journey is a 1987 children's adventure novel by Gerald Durrell. It is a story about three children and their great-uncle Lancelot travelling around the world in a hot air balloon. It was illustrated by Graham Percy and published by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers.
Wishbone and the kids meet Dr. Thelma Brown, an elderly woman who lived in Joe's house as a child, and help dig up a time capsule she once buried. Meanwhile, Dr. Brown's return to a place that has changed in the many years since she was last there reminds Wishbone of the story of Rip Van Winkle. #7 The Mutt in the Iron Muzzle
The mechanics of these books involved simple choices in the style of Choose Your Own Adventure books, rather than the game-like randomized elements of Fighting Fantasy gamebooks. However, the stories and characters in an Endless Quest book, while not necessarily more complex than in a Choose Your Own Adventure book, are often more fully ...
Ormondroyd, familiar with the Legend of the Phoenix. attributes his “vision” to a number of literary influences, among them T. H. White’s adventure The Sword in the Stone (1938), while the personality of the Phoenix may have had its origin in the “pompous” Major Hoople, featured in the newspaper cartoon Our Boarding House.
Treasure Hunters: Secret of the Forbidden City is a young adult children's literature adventure fiction book written by James Patterson with Chris Grabenstein.It is the third book in the Treasure Hunters series and the sequel to Treasure Hunters: Danger Down the Nile.
The children's writer Elinor Lyon, in an autobiographical introduction to a reprint of the first book in her series about a pair of adventurous young siblings on the west coast of Scotland, remembers feeling a "dislike of the characters in Swallows and Amazons who are so good at things like sailing. I thought I'd have children who got things ...