Family Bonding, Poverty and Vagrancy in Children’s Literature
Three European classics, Seacrow Island, An Episode of Sparrows and Krabat and the Sorcerer’s Mill explore difficult topics with profundity and sincerity.
Children’s classics
‘The Glassblower’s Children’ Explores the Existential Melancholia of the Child’s World
Deep at the existentialist heart of this story there's a solemn treatise on the socially inequitable struggles between the worlds of the child and the adult.
‘The Island of Horses’ Captures the Beauty of a Windswept Irish Coast
Between the villainous merchants, sailors and mysterious horses, it is the windswept Irish landscape that emerges as the true character of this story.