Not long ago, I read Babe: The Gallant Pig to my children as part of our ongoing building of a family canon of literature. I remember when the movie adaption came out (I won’t tell how old I was to avoid self-incrimination) and recalled that I had not been impressed at that time. However, in following our standard practice, the movie viewing was proffered following the completion of the reading of the book. …
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World mythologies and regional folktales have always served as source material for modern fantasy, with some (like Greek or Celtic myths) having well-established influence and others (like African or Asian tales) enjoying their first widespread audience in recent years. Young adult novels have their fair share of fantasies based on the old stories, and also their fair share of both successful and failed retellings. In the last year or two, young adult readers have been …