![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the early 1970’s, literary realism was beginning to be equated with “the darker, harsher side of life,” writes author and blogger Pauline Dewan. ![]() Rowling‘s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, inasmuch as death, according to its author, is a major theme of the Harry Potter series. That would change by the late 1990’s, however, as evidenced by the arrival, and enormous success and popularity, of J. In spite of the success of Charlotte’s Web, the notion of killing off a principal character was scarcely embraced by modern children’s publishers. White famously acquainted modern young readers with mortality with Charlotte’s Web. Even though this subject had been a staple of Victorian children’s literature, think Oliver Twist, it had been conspicuously absent from the genre for a half-a-century. When Doris Buchanan Smith set out in 1970 to find a publisher for her first book, little did she know the book’s main theme was off-limits. A Taste of Blackberries is the award-winning children’s book by Doris Buchanan Smith (J– August 8, 2002). ![]()
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