Noah Barleywater Runs Away
In today’s parlance, Noah Barleywater Runs Away, John Boyne’s return to children’s literature, is a Pinocchio knockoff with a delightful, yet serious, 21st century tone. If you think that’s a bit strong, how about, Boyne has taken fanfic to a new literary high, which I suspect would both amuse and gladden Signore Collodi. As I […]
Looking For Pinocchio
Any fellow reader who has their own small library and then has had to box up that library because of a move, and then in one’s new surroundings, because of a shortage of bookshelves, is forced to decide which books will remain in boxes and which will find their way to new shelves in a place […]