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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 age of children's fantasy, in scholars' view, occurred in the mid-20th century when the genre was influenced by J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia. [9] [10] In the vein of Narnia, the post-war period saw rising stakes and manifestations of evil in the works of Susan Cooper and Alan Garner. [11]
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.
Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are created for children. Modern children's literature is classified in two different ways: genre or the intended age of the reader, from picture books for the very young to young adult fiction .
While the label “golden child” isn’t a clinical diagnosis in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, it is a common phenomenon that can have a profound impact on a child ...
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
A place for everything and everything in its place. Although that maxim about neatness might apply to the intentions of the characters living in the English country vicarage in “The Southbury ...