May 24, 2021
Children's science fiction was still an unusual and peripheral category during the New Wave, but it did produce some important new classics. In this episode, we explore the highlights of what kids were reading during this time.
Book recommendations:
For upper elementary and middle school: A Wrinkle in
Time by Madeleine L'Engle.
For lower elementary: The Iron
Giant/The Iron Man by Ted Hughes
Farah Mendelsohn on children's sci-fi.
My post about A Wrinkle in Time and The
Chronicles of Narnia.
Other books and authors mentioned:
Andre
Norton
The
Tripods trilogy by John Christopher
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien