The Children's Hour, Ed. Richard Zimler & Rasa Sekulovic
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Both children's authors and those not usually so viewed appear – from Nadine Gordimer to Ali Smith; Junot Diaz to David Almond; Nicholas Shakespeare to Meg Rosoff. The great bulk of the pieces, inspired by the experience of children in all its shades of joy and pain, are original contributions.
So enjoy a moving, disturbing but pretty often funny spectrum of young lives and dreams, from Shakespeare's Tasmanian youngster learning about his rackety ancestry to Ali Smith's splendid conversation with her 14-year-old self.
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