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Harsh realities in children’s books

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The BBC’s Mark Coles reports on the rise of so-called ‘misery literature’ for children, books that depict real-life tragedy, including events such as the Iraq war. Are trauma and despair the right stuff for kids’ books?

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World Books Review: A Journey Through Literary Time

41lenEGFeRL._SL500_AA240_-150x150Jose Manuel Prieto’s “Rex” is an adventure through time: not historical time, or physical time, so much as literary time, the dreamy, static continuum of impressions and formulations recorded across centuries and civilizations.

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