"Touch magic-- and pass it on."

Jane Yolen






Third, fourth, and fifth graders at Holiday Hill are reading the following children's fantasies in the Library/Media Center this month. Click the links beneath your grade's title to learn more about the book and its author.

The Acorn Quest by Jane Yolen	Book Review of The Acorn Quest Meet the author, Jane Yolen Interview with Jane Yolen
The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander	About The Book of Three and other books about Prydain About author, Lloyd Alexander Scholastic Interview with Lloyd Alexander
The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper	Book Review at Kidsreads.com Meet the author, Susan Cooper Student book review of The Dark is Rising

Click on the links to the right to read what these famous people had to say about fantasy.

Dr. Seuss (Theodor S. Geisel) Albert Einstein (Scientist) C.S. Lewis (Author, Theologian)

Looking for other fantasy titles to read? Click the link to the right.

Recommended by the New York Public Library

Quotations

"Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all of life's realities. " Theodor S. Geisel,aka Dr. Seuss

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When Albert Einstein was asked how to develop intelligence in young people, he answered: "Read fairy tales. Then read more fairy tales." Albert Einstein

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"At all ages, if [fantasy and myth] is used well by the author and meets the right reader, it has the same power: to generalize while remaining concrete, to present in palpable form not concepts or even experiences but whole classes of experience, and to throw off irrelevancies. But at its best it can do more; it can give us experiences we have never had and thus, instead of 'commenting on life,' can add to it."C.S. Lewis

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Bibliography