Voice in ‘The Bridge-Builder’

My last article was about the writing voice and what it is; you can read all about it here. In this article, I use the short story ‘The Bridge-Builder’ by New Zealand author Margaret Mahy to illustrate voice. ‘The Bridge-Builder’ was originally published in 1988 in The Door in the Air and Other Stories, a […]

Book Review – The Mapmakers’ Race by Eirlys Hunter

Happy New Year and welcome to Pendants and Paperbacks 2019. Holidays are the perfect time to catch up on reading and I have been doing a lot of that over the past week or so. As part of my regular book review series, I’d like to share with you my thoughts on  Eirlys Hunter’s junior […]

Book Review – Once Long Ago

Once Long Ago, the book I read as a child until it fell apart, is the book I have chosen for my first review. Once Long Ago: Folk and Fairy Tales of the World, first published in 1962 by Golden Pleasure Books, is a collection of 70 traditional tales from 49 different cultures retold by […]