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The Golden Child is a 1977 mystery novel [2] by the British author Penelope Fitzgerald, her first published work of fiction.Written while her husband was terminally ill, and partly for his benefit, the novel offers a satirical version of the 1972 Treasures of Tutankhamun exhibition at the British Museum, and pokes fun at museum politics, academics, and Cold War spying.
Regarded as the first "English masterpiece written for children" [9]: 44 and as a founding book in the development of fantasy literature, its publication opened the "First Golden Age" of children's literature in Britain and Europe that continued until the early 1900s. The fairy-tale absurdity of Wonderland has solid historical ground as a ...
The Golden Key is a fairy tale written by George MacDonald. It was published in Dealings with the Fairies (1867). It is particularly noted for the intensity of the suggestive imagery, which implies a spiritual meaning to the story without providing a transparent allegory for the events in it.
Claire Adam was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad, the youngest of four children of her Trinidadian father and Irish mother. [4]Leaving Trinidad at the age of 18, [4] Adam went to the US where she studied Physics at Brown University. [5]
Allan Ahlberg is an English writer known for several best-selling children's books, both full of poetry and children's literature, illustrated by his wife Janet. [32] Andy Tooze (born 1963 or 1964), is an English Childrens Poet and former Primary School teacher. [33]
Highest listing price on eBay: $10,000 The punch-out activity books were among A Little Golden Book’s finest era. This “Hansel and Gretel” story from 1961 includes fully intact cutouts ...
Golden Child is a 2019 literary novel by Trinidadian author Claire Adam. Set in rural Trinidad , it won the Desmond Elliott Prize and was selected on a 2019 BBC list of 100 most inspiring novels . Plot
The Three Golden Children refers to a series of folktales related to the motif of the calumniated wife, numbered K2110.1 in the Motif-Index of Folk-Literature.The name refers to a cycle of tales wherein a woman gives birth to children of wondrous aspect, but her children are taken from her by jealous relatives or by her mother-in-law, and her husband punishes her in some harsh way.