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,
“... read like weaker, discontinuous and uncertain versions of a once vigorous 19th-century model. Juliet Dymoke’s The Lord of Greenwich, the kind of Georgette Heyer novel that might be intended equally for children and for adults, is the fifth in a series of novels about the Plantagenets. There is no doubting the quality of her research, but the final ... ”
