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sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2011-06-28 02:19 pm

We get stuck with how people see us

Remember that children's picture book with the sea-ghosts I was mentioning a few weeks ago? I found it. It's Birdy and the Ghosties (1989); I recognized the cover illustration immediately. What I didn't remember was its author, Jill Paton Walsh. Who is also responsible for The Green Book (1981), which [livejournal.com profile] rushthatspeaks and I both read in elementary school, possibly under its reissue title of Shine, and A Parcel of Patterns (1984), which traumatized us a few years later. Who knew? At this point, I'm just waiting to see what else turns up out of her bibliography—oh, wait, Fireweed's (1970) hers, too. Yes, I have been recommended Knowledge of Angels (1994). What I can't figure out is how she seems to have wound up best known for her Sayers fic.
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[identity profile] strange-selkie.livejournal.com 2011-06-29 01:22 am (UTC)(link)
I'll have to look at their catalogue. Nicole paid her fine up, so now we can borrow books without being decimated, decapitated, or defenestrated!

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