Children’s Fiction and the Past
Nicholas Tucker, 17 July 1980
Fanny and the Battle of Potter’s Piece
by Penelope Lively.
Heinemann, 45 pp., £3.50, June 1980,9780434949373 Show More
by Penelope Lively.
Heinemann, 45 pp., £3.50, June 1980,
The Time of the Young Soldiers
by Hans Peter Richter.
Kestrel, 128 pp., £3.95, June 1980,0 7226 5122 8 Show More
by Hans Peter Richter.
Kestrel, 128 pp., £3.95, June 1980,
“... studios just after the last war – all sword fights, low-cut dresses and swaggering heroes. Barbara Willard’s A Flight of Swans, the latest novel in her ‘Mantlemass’ series, is closer in mood to today’s popular television serial featuring a prosperous middle-class family living at some time in the past. This is a better-written, more solid ... ”