![]() And then I found Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings-ahead of the curve, I might add. When I was a kid, what we think of now as high fantasy hadn’t been invented yet. ![]() When I was first looking for books to read I was drawn to fairy and folk tales-Oz and Dr. I am gleefully in the process of becoming a hermit and I haven’t been a young reader in well over half a century I can’t generalize. What draws young readers to the fantasy genre and to high fantasy, in particular? The Newbery Medal spoiled high fantasy readers with The High King (1969), The Grey King (1976), and The Hero and the Crown (1985), but it would be more than three decades before The Girl Who Drank the Moon (2017) would represent the genre again. Her work has impacted not just the Newbery canon, but the fantasy genre, too. Whether she’s reworking fairy tales and legends or writing original high fantasy, her writing is characterized by sensory imagery, vivid settings, and memorable female characters. She has published 10 additional novels, several picture books, and a handful of short story collections. Robin McKinley won a Newbery Honor for The Blue Sword in 1983 and the Newbery Medal in 1985 for The Hero and the Crown (both Greenwillow/HarperCollins). ![]()
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