Deakin Newsletter October 2005
Our Canadian correspondent, Andrea Deakin, has started her own online newsletter of reviews and children's books news.
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Canada: October 2005 Archives
The Observer | UK News | Holy war looms over Disney's Narnia epic
From last Sunday's Observer:
'If the Disney Corporation wants to market this film as a great Christian story, they'll just have to tell lies about it,' Pullman told The Observer Pullman believes that Lewis's books portray a version of Christianity that relies on martial combat, outdated fears of sexuality and women, and also portrays a religion that looks a lot like Islam in unashamedly racist terms. 'It's not the presence of Christian doctrine I object to so much as the absence of Christian virtue. The highest virtue, we have on the authority of the New Testament itself, is love, and yet you find not a trace of that in the books,' he said... ...The Narnia books, Pullman said, contained '...a peevish blend of racist, misogynistic and reactionary prejudice; but of love, of Christian charity, [there is] not a trace'.
2005 Governor-General's Award Shortlists
Children's Literature-Text
Francis Chalifour After (Tundra Books)
Barbara Nickel Hannah Waters and the Daughter of Johann Sebastian Bach (Penguin Canada)
Gail Nyoka Mella and the N'anga An African Tale (Sumach Press)
Pamela Porter The Crazy Man (Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press)
Shyam Selvadurai Swimming in the Monsoon Sea (Tundra Books)
2005 Governor-General's Award: Children's Literature- Illustration
Kyrsten Brooker City Angel text by Eileen Spinelli (Dial Books for Young Readers/ Penguin Young Readers Group)
Wallace Edwards Mixed Beasts text by Kenyon Cox (Kids Can Press)
Rob Gonsalves Imagine a Day Text by Sarah L.Thompson (Ateneum Books/ Simon and Schuste
Murray Kimber The Highwayman text by Alfred Noyes (Kids Can Press)
Rajka Kupesic Maria Chapdelaine text by Louis Hemon (Tundra Books)
Entertainment News Article | Reuters.co.uk
Rowling won the prize for book of the year and best children's book for "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" while Dylan won best biography/memoir for "Chronicles: Volume One," his personal history as a musician and tortured pop icon...
