In an oddly appropriating act, the 2018 film version of Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time expunged its many Christian references. McLaughlin holds a PhD in renaissance literature from Cambridge University and a theology degree from Oak Hill College in London. Rowling, another author referenced on the side of good-o ld British paganism, chose not to disclose her fragile Christian faith until the last Harry Potter book was published, precisely because of its Christian influence: she feared it would give the story away. Rebecca McLaughlin answers 12 hard questions for Christians in her new book, Confronting Christianity. The author cited The Lord of the Rings and The Chronicles of Narnia as examples of stories shaped by paganism, failing to note that Tolkien and Lewis were passionate Christians who grounded their stories in the death-a nd-r esurrection truth claims of Jesus. In the same year, I stumbled upon an Atlantic article that promised to explain “Why the British Tell Better Children’s Stories.” 4 As a Brit living in America, I read it eagerly, only to find it arguing that American children’s stories are less compelling because they are more Christian. Confronting Christianity: 12 Hard Questions for the World's Largest Religion (The Gospel Coalition) McLaughlin, Rebecca on. Likewise, at the 2016 “Reason Rally,” designed to mobilize atheists, agnostics, and “nones,” multiple speakers invoked Martin Luther King’s March on Washington-as if a rally that despised Christianity would have pleased one of the most powerful Christian preachers in American history.
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(Wings, get it?) It's none other than the Archangel Raziel come to Earth seeking a small child with a wish that needs granting. But Josh is sure that he saw Santa take a shovel to the head, and now the seven-year-old has only one prayer: Please, Santa, come back from the dead.īut hold on! There's an angel waiting in the wings. No, he's not on his deathbed no, his dog hasn't run away from home. Little Joshua Barker is in desperate need of a holiday miracle. 'Twas the night (okay, more like the week) before Christmas, and all through the tiny community of Pine Cove, California, people are busy buying, wrapping, packing, and generally getting into the holiday spirit.īut not everybody is feeling the joy. It's far harder to pull of an awesome dystopia than an awesome post-apocalyptic, I think, because the former requires genius while the latter requires.less genius. Post-apocalyptic fiction is almost at a dead heat with dystopian fiction (and yes.they are closely related but I insist they are different speculative fiction subgenres!) when vying for my affection I like the great dystopians more than most post-apocalyptics, but the majority of dystopian novels are barely good. I'm still trying to figure out why this is true for me: I am endlessly fascinated by the idea of the world stripped of most of its people. Standouts include the elegant simplicity of Jason Reynolds’ “The Ingredients,” about a group of boys walking home from the swimming pool Leah Henderson’s “Warning: Color May Fade,” about an artist afraid to express herself the immediacy of Tracey Baptiste’s “Gravity,” about a #MeToo moment of self-actualization birthed from violation Renée Watson’s reflection on family in “Half a Moon” and the collection’s namesake, Varian Johnson’s “Black Enough,” which highlights the paradigm shift that is getting woke. Conversely, the characters are incredibly varied, as are the narrative styles. Given that scope, that most stories are contemporary realistic fiction makes sense (Rita Williams-Garcia’s humorous “Whoa!” which dips into the waters of speculative fiction, is a notable exception). A diverse and compelling fiction anthology that taps 17 established, rising star, and new #ownvoices talents.Įditor Zoboi ( Pride, 2018, etc.) lays out the collection’s purpose: exploring black interconnectedness, traditions, and identity in terms of how they apply to black teens. She lives in rural New England, and her studio is in a barn with perhaps the only hippopotamus weathervane in America. King, “Alligator Stroll” starring Josh Turner, and “Tyrannosaurus Funk” (animated) sung by Samuel L. Boynton has also directed twelve music videos of her songs, including the award-winning “One Shoe Blues” starring B.B. Three of her six albums have been certified Gold (over 500,000 copies sold) and Philadelphia Chickens, nominated for a Grammy, has been certified Platinum (over 1 million copies sold). She has also written (with Michael Ford) and produced six albums of renegade children’s music. More than 85 million of her books have been sold, “mostly to friends and family,” she says. Since 1974, Boynton has written and illustrated over seventy-five children’s books and seven general audience books, including five New York Times bestsellers. Sandra Boynton is a popular American cartoonist, children’s author, songwriter, producer, and director. A vicious queen is hunting Akiva, and, in the skies of Eretz.something is happening. Toward a new way of living, and maybe even love.īut there are bigger threats than Jael in the offing. It is a twisted version of their long-ago dream, and they begin to hope that it might forge a way forward for their people.Īnd, perhaps, for themselves. When Jael’s brutal seraph army trespasses into the human world, the unthinkable becomes essential, and Karou and Akiva must ally their enemy armies against the threat. The future rests on her, if there can even be a future for the chimaera in war-ravaged Eretz. By way of a staggering deception, Karou has taken control of the chimaera rebellion and is intent on steering its course away from dead-end vengeance. Read millions of eBooks and audiobooks on the web, iPad. People forgot he was a jew and loved him. Read Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000 by Lucille Clifton with a free trial. Others called him infidel, chased him down September’s Song, A Poem in Seven Days by Lucille Clifton Her achievements also include fellowships and honorary degrees from Fisk University, George Washington University, Trinity College and other institutions two grants from the National Endowment of the Arts and an Emmy Award from the American Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. She also has written “Generations: A Memoir” (1976) and 16 books for children. Her books of poetry include “Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000” (BOA Editions, 2000), which won the National Book Award “The Terrible Stories” (1995), which was nominated for the National Book Award “The Book of Light” (1993) “Quilting: Poems 1987-1990” (1991) “Next: New Poems” (1987) “Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980” (1987), which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize “Two-Headed Woman” (1980), also a Pulitzer Prize nominee and winner of the University of Massachusetts Press Juniper Prize “An Ordinary Woman” (1974) “Good News About the Earth” (1972) and “Good Times” (1969). in 1936 to working class parents, Clifton attended Howard University at age 16. Mary’s College of Maryland, Lucille Clifton’s free verse lyrics often focus on race, gender, the importance of family and community in the face of economic oppression.īorn in Depew, N.Y. 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So now I have a Cintiq (a graphics tablet with an LCD screen), and it's life-changing. I would sketch a character, scan it into my computer to make it larger, print it out, color it with colored pencils, cut the drawing out with tiny scissors, scan it back into Photoshop, and put it into my already scanned background painting. I used to do a lot of sketching and scanning. I always paint my backgrounds using acrylic paint. Q: What kinds of media and methods do you use in your illustrations?Ī: That's evolved over the years. She lives in Saratoga with her husband, Paul, who teaches painting at Skidmore, and their two daughters. "Uh-oh, Dodo!" (2013) is about the everyday misadventures of a baby bird. "Pig Kahuna" (2011) is about two pigs in Hawaii who find a surfboard washed up on the beach. Other books by Sattler include "Sylvie" (2009), about a young flamingo who turns herself different colors by changing the foods she eats. |