Actually the Haruf-Plainsong is also not really a kid's book at all. It's about a 17-year-old girl who is pregnant and stumbles into two bachelor brothers' lives.
It is similar to another book that is YA, but not children's set in Winnipeg (Confessions of a Heartless Girl) which is similar in it's sparseness and it's plot and it's sort of melodic prose.
Haruf's Plainsong is great to be teamed with Peace Like A River in that they are both so Plains-States in the best way possible.
It's a really amazing book but not for meant or written for children.
Not bloody likely :)
I didn't say she could out-Vortex Vortex. That's not
even
possible.
Is it a children's book, Deb? Hmm?
Oh dear God, tell me they aren't making that mistake. Please? Because I don't want a bunch of fundie mommies chasing me with meat-axes, OK?
It is very definitively NOT a children's book. Nor is Kent Haruf's book of the same title, which is a big sprawly beach blanket read about a family who lives on the Great Plains.
Erin, please make them correct it. Please? I beg of you?
Ooh, I'm actually reading that Le Guin translation (or was, before RotK ate my brain). It's very good. There's not much plot to the individual stories, but the setting is fantastic. Good bedtime reading.
Faulkner Fox is a cool name.
I'm trying to find books we know and love in translation, to practice reading in other languages. Any idea how to harness the power of the Internet to do this? Often when I'm travelling I will pick up The Hobbit in Spanish, or Dune in Romanian, etc. But I'd like to find books in Greek this year, before we go to Greece. Children's books would be best. (In fact, The Hobbit would be great.)
I've found Cat in the Hat, Winnie the Pooh, and Harry Potter in Latin, but no luck with modern Greek.
So Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy is being turned into a two-play production at the British National Theatre. And the British Christian community is upset.
I shudder to think of what would happen in the instance of a federally-funded production in the US. Mapplethorpe comes to mind. Again.
