Aoung Ydults, and Young Adults too, will appreciate the psychological foundation for Morgan’s flawed choices. Morgan’s power comes from her otherworldly nature but, like her enchanted castle, the life she builds is based on very real, and quite primal, human emotions and experience. Nancy Springer takes these familiar characters, as well as a number of brand-new ones (or old ones in new guises) and builds for them a world that is lyric and mystical and uniquely hers. Overfamiliarity can kill a reader’s interest. One of the risks assumed in addressing such an often-referenced legend in a book is that the whole enterprise can so easily fall into cliché. A good book is a good book, and there should be no stigma attached to reading something outside of a prescribed age group. ((Aside: Young…compared to what? We need a good term for these readers, and books these readers enjoy. I Am Morgan Le Fay is one of those books marketed as Young Adult that so many of us who are no longer precisely young enjoy. Has it sunk in? Great! Now that you’re properly wide-eyed, let’s continue. Imagine the sheer linear feet of bookshelf space. The Great Balticon Readathon continues with a look into the Arthurian realm with the very prolific Nancy Springer. Wait.this isn’t actually a declaration of my secret identity. Because CRAYONS! I Am Morgan le FayĪt last: I reveal myself! Quail before me, mortal child! Down the long years have I journeyed… Nancy Springer, sketched directly in pen, then colored with crayon.
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