That is the accidental heart of the story. The characters recite a repeated refrain, “It will not be so in the mended wood.” I asked Smith about the significance of this eschatological phrase and how it became so important in the storyline. I was privileged to interview Smith about his writing and his forthcoming book.Īmong the more beautiful aspects in his fictional world is the confidence among the rabbits that their war-ravaged world will be set aright. Smith has managed to teach profound truths about humanity through a world of rabbits with swords. As the author claims, they are “new stories with an old soul.” In his Green Ember series, S. Within the last few years I’ve come across a series of stories that stretch the minds and souls of readers young and old. They offer stories that are exciting, but offer little in the way of revelation of the truth about the world. ![]() Too often, however, the stories my children find on the shelves of the local library or bookstore do little to offer meaningful proxy memories. ![]() This is why the “coming of age” motif is so popular in children’s literature. These memories shape the moral imagination of children in mysterious and powerful ways. The child reader (and the adult, too) lives vicariously through Taran’s experiences, which function as “memories,” when she encounters the story. His final choice at the end of the last book demonstrates that he has abandoned the foolish dreams of his youth for self-sacrificing maturity. For example, Taran in Lloyd Alexander’s Chronicles of Prydain series grows up in front of the reader. Stories often function as a proxy memory for children. Stories are a central way we explain the world’s problems to children. Introducing our children to this broken world can be overwhelming, since there is a usually a large gap between the actual state of the world and the state of the world as it should be. ![]() Reading the news is enough to tell us that.
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