Books Received
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Eleanor H. Porter’s Pollyanna: A Children’s Classic at 100. Edited by Roxanne Harde and Lydia Kokkola. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2017.
The content of this new paperback edition is the same as that of the original hardback that appeared in 2014. The volume is part of the Children’s Literature Association series celebrating classic children’s books at the centenary of their original publication.
J. K. Rowling’s Wizarding World: Movie Magic. By Jody Revenson. Somerville, MA: Candlewick, 2016.
This lavishly illustrated volume provides insights and images related to the films based on Rowling’s Harry Potter books, with a particular focus on the most recent one, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016). More a coffee table book than a critical study of the Harry Potter films, it includes much information about the techniques used in their production.
Patricia A. McKillip and the Art of Fantasy World-Building. By Audrey Isabel Taylor. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2017.
This critical study of McKillip’s fantasy novels focuses on the imaginary settings that she uses in her fiction. Taylor devotes much of her study to analyzing how McKillip draws on the fairy tale tradition in creating her fantasy worlds.
The Southern Quarterly: A Journal of Arts and Letters in the South 54.3/4 (2017). Guest edited by Mark I. West.
This special double issue of The Southern Quarterly, subtitled Children in the South, includes numerous articles on Southern children’s literature, including Laura Hakala’s “Beyond the Big House: Southern Girlhoods in Louise Clarke Pyrnelle’s Diddie, Dumps, and Tot”; Anita Tarr’s “Preserving Southern Culture: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’s The Yearling”; Tina L. Hanlon’s “Struggles for Life, Liberty, and Land: Appalachian Mining Communities in Children’s Literature”; and Joanne Joy’s “Lessons at the Southern Table: The Fusion of Childhood and Food in Dori Sanders’s Clover.” The issue [End Page 100] also features an interview with Ellen Ruffin, curator of the de Grummond Children’s Literature Collection at The University of Southern Mississippi. In addition, in a composite article titled “Childhood in the New South as Reflected in Children’s Literature: A Forum,” nine children’s literature professors recommend a favorite children’s or young adult book set in the New South. [End Page 101]
