Books Received
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The Great Tales Never End: Essays in Memory of Christopher Tolkien. Edited by Richard Ovenden and Catherine McIlwaine. Bodleian Library Publishing, 2022.
As J. R. R. Tolkien's son and literary executor, Christopher Tolkien completed and brought into print many of his father's unfinished manuscripts. The contributors to this collection examine Christopher Tolkien's work as an editor, scholar, and writer in his own right. The book also includes many photographs, drawings, and reproductions of manuscript pages. This collection should appeal to anyone who is interested in the field of Tolkien studies.
Impermanent Blackness: The Making and Unmaking of Interracial Literary Culture in Modern America. By Korey Garibaldi. Princeton University Press, 2023.
Korey Garibaldi, an American Studies professor at the University of Notre Dame, examines the history of interracial publishing in the United States from the 1910s to the 1960s. For readers interested in the history of African American children's literature, Garibaldi's third chapter, titled "Challenging Little Black Sambo," is especially pertinent.
Perspectives on East and Southeast Asian Folktales. Edited by Allyssa Mc-Cabe and Minjeong Kim. Lexington Books, 2022.
This volume is part of a series titled Studies in Folklore and Ethnology: Traditions, Practices, and Identities. The contributors to this volume examine folktales from Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Burma, China, Japan, and Korea. The essays are organized into the following sections: "Folkloristic Perspective," "Cultural Perspective," "Psychological Perspective," and "Educational Perspective." The three essays in the "Educational Perspective" section are especially relevant for readers interested in how these folktales relate to children's literature and culture.
The Quentin Blake Book. By Jenny Uglow. Thames & Hudson, 2022.
Jenny Uglow provides readers with a fully illustrated overview of Quentin Blake's career as an artist and illustrator of children's books. She focuses much of the book on Blake's relationships with the various authors with whom he collaborated, such as Roald Dahl, Russell Hoban, and John Yeoman. [End Page 417]
