The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

Art, Children's Literature, Fantasy, J. M. Barrie, Kansas, L. Frank Baum, Neil Gaiman, Reviews, , , , , , , 5 Comments

The problem with a blurb from Neil Gaiman on a cover is that, invoking Gaiman, it inevitably diminishes the book by comparison.  This is not the book’s fault.  Gaiman is one of our most gifted contemporary writers.  Catherynne M. Valente may not be, but I wouldn’t even be thinking about the comparison if Gaiman’s endorsement

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Goodbye, Yellow Brick Road?

Art, Children's Literature, Kansas, L. Frank Baum, , ,

What would Kansas be like without Langston Hughes, William S. Burroughs, or The Wizard of Oz?  What would Kansas be like without art?  That’s what the blog Imagine Kansas Without Art is considering, in light of Governor Brownback’s order to eliminate the Kansas Arts Commission (which, if approved by the state legislature, will go into

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