I recently recorded a podcast episode of ‘Changed My Mind‘ with Luke T Harrington, talking about how I went from seeing Harry Potter as nothing but trashy fun, to seeing it as a bona fide children’s classic. I’ve been enjoying listening to Luke’s show, so it was great fun to go on it to talk […]
It doesn’t surprise me in the slightest given the strongly Christian themes of Harry Potter in general and book seven in particular, but I just saw this article in which J K Rowling talks about the part that Christianity plays in her books, and also talks about her faith and doubts: here.
Contains hints and teases, but no specific spoilers… 10:15am It’s arrived! Hooray! Time to settle down with a good book for the next few hours. “I suppose we won’t be seeing much of you for the rest of the day” says my Dad. Oooh, I open it and there are quotes at the front. I […]
Today is a long-awaited day, the day when the seventh and final Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is published. I’m now back in sleepy old Dolgellau, so no midnight opening for me, just the wait for the postman to arrive bearing the latest volume. Rather than just a plain and ordinary […]
The trailer for the film of Northern Lights, the first in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy is now online. I’m rather apprehensive about this film. I love Pullman’s trilogy as much as disagree with his anti-God polemic. Any film adaptation would have to be pretty special to do justice to the books. I’m rather […]
What took him so long? Yes, Philip Pullman, author of the His Dark Materials trilogy and Richard Dawkins of the literary world has been on the warpath against The Chronicles of Narnia again. When The Guardian ran a feature previewing the film a few weeks ago which described The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe […]
There’s a well-timed article on Boundless, a Christian webzine for students, entitled Lessons from a Bear of Very Little Brain: The Place of Children’s Literature in Education, what with me starting studying children’s literature this very week. Sam Torode speaks of how reading Winnie the Pooh was the most important thing he did in his […]
