Beyond Window-Dressing?
Subtitle: Canadian Children's Fantasy at the Millennium
Publisher: Sybertooth Inc
Published: December 14, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9780968802458
Subjects: Children's literature studies: general; Canada; Canadian; Children's Literature - General; Science Fiction & Fantasy; Literary Criticism & Collections / Children's Literature; Literary Criticism : Canadian; Literary Criticism : Science Fiction & Fantasy; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English
Description: Recipient of the 2004 Frances E. Russell Award

In the late twentieth century, Canadian children's fantasy had a poor reputation internationally. Was this reputation deserved, and if so, has the quality of children's fantasy and the climate for its publication improved since that time? 
After a survey of twentieth-century Canadian children's fantasy, Beyond Window-Dressing examines these questions through an extensive cross-section of Canadian children's fantasy published between 2000 and 2004. From Palmer Cox and Catherine Anthony Clark to Judd Palmer and Alison Baird, and writers of international reputation such as Dave Duncan, O.R. Melling, Kenneth Oppel and Charles de Lint, Beyond Window-Dressing weighs Canadian fantasy against the best of the UK and US. It provides not only a window onto Canadian developments in the genre during the opening years of the twenty-first century, but insists that fantasy must be judged by standards as rigorous as those applied to any other genre of literature.