Genre Boundaries
Children will love Flyball's story--grown-ups, reading it aloud, will see in it a slight take-off on the popular science fiction trend.
The flyleaf blurb for Space Cat by Ruthven Todd, illustrations by Paul Galdone (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952).
posted by Farah @ 1/22/2005 04:49:00 PM
3 Comments:
ha! I got the Space Cat stories when my school library discarded them because "the science was out-of-date." Perhaps they meant the trend was over.
tina connolly
I think the first book is wonderful. I've just re-read it this morning for my notes and I'll post a snippet later. I was less keen on Space Cat and the Kittens because it is more anthropomorphic. What are the others like? Four I believe.
Secondary thought:
It is already starting to look as if I'll be able to trace a trend in terms of when children's sf is published. I'm keeping an excel file which allows me just to skim down the dates, and even on the basis of the first thirty books there are "clusters".
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