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From: Jones, Caroline E <cj24>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:18:25 -0500
I'd like to hear folks' responses to Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson series. I'm teaching the first one in my children's lit course next semester.
Other favorites are Alan Garner's The Owl Service, which was, for me, a difficult and rewarding read even as an adult. But marvelous-based in Welsh mythology. And it raises interesting questions about Garner's modern ideologies of class. And, of course, Susan Cooper's Dark is Rising sequence, also Welsh-based and overtly-enough connected to Arthurian legend to bring in readers for that reason. These two authors use, I believe, common themes of cosmic events replaying until ancient wrongs are righted.
Donna Jo Napoli has a relatively new one called Hush: An Irish Princess' Tale which complicates Irish and Viking (Norse? it's been awhile since I've read it) legend.
Caroline
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:18:25 -0500
I'd like to hear folks' responses to Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson series. I'm teaching the first one in my children's lit course next semester.
Other favorites are Alan Garner's The Owl Service, which was, for me, a difficult and rewarding read even as an adult. But marvelous-based in Welsh mythology. And it raises interesting questions about Garner's modern ideologies of class. And, of course, Susan Cooper's Dark is Rising sequence, also Welsh-based and overtly-enough connected to Arthurian legend to bring in readers for that reason. These two authors use, I believe, common themes of cosmic events replaying until ancient wrongs are righted.
Donna Jo Napoli has a relatively new one called Hush: An Irish Princess' Tale which complicates Irish and Viking (Norse? it's been awhile since I've read it) legend.
Caroline
-- Dr. Caroline E. Jones Department of English Texas State University-San Marcos San Marcos, TX 78666 512-245-7657Received on Wed 22 Oct 2008 03:18:25 PM CDT
