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• Review of Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger

  From: School Library Journal

  Apr. 1995173 words Book review, Critical essay Gr 3-6--These additional anecdotes about Wayside School [in Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger] will surely tickle the funny bones of Sachar's fans. Thirty more "time outs" are miraculously conflated into a...

• Review of The Austere Academy.

  From: Booklist

  Oct. 15, 2000150 words Book review, Critical essay Gr. 4-6. The Beaudelaire orphans enroll as students at Prufrock Academy in the fifth Series of Unfortunate Events book [The Austere Academy]. The Academy, run by nasty, mimicking Vice Principal Nero, is shaped like a...

• Review of Isaac Asimov's New Library of the Universe.

  From: School Library Journal

  Apr. 1995169 words Book review, Critical essay Gr 3-4--Originally issued in 1988 with different titles, these look-alike entries from an unusually wide-ranging series have been redesigned and (slightly) updated. They still retain some of the originals' flaws--scanty...

• The Embodiment of Culture: Fairy Tales of the Body in the 17th and 18th Centuries

  From: Romantic Review

  Nov. 19925,338 words Critical essay Once upon a time there was a body. This body was peculiar indeed. One, it was only produced by a speech act. Two, the subject of its enunciation gave his body as a body which was obviously heterogeneous. Three, this...

• Review of Yours, Isaac Asimov,

  From: Booklist

  Oct. 15, 1995154 words Book review, Critical essay Stanley Asimov, editor of this volume [Yours, Isaac Asimov], is a seasoned journalist as well as the brother of the late science fiction writer, and he brought both professional skill and fraternal affection to the task...