deaths in the children's section

[mayhap]

I just saw that Zilpha Keatley Snyder has died, coincidentally two days after I was moved to reread The Egypt Game. (I checked because it could have been the same day and it wasn't, but it was close.)

I also just learned that Mary Rodgers died back in June and that she published a book called Freaky Monday in 2009. I loved Freaky Friday when I was a kid and the 1970s New York it describes was far more fantastic to me than the idea of body-switching.

Comments

[thistleingrey]

Yes! Rodgers's narrated NY was fantastic even ca. 1980 in LA.

[mayhap]

Nice! Yeah, I could never warm to the idea of the Lindsay Lohan movie, even though it was very positively received, because it looked so blandly suburban and that just seemed too wrong to me.

[thistleingrey]

Yes--the film fit together well enough as itself, but it was too much a translation through the heads of the production team or something.

[lotesse]

oh I loved The Egypt Game. and The Witches of Worm. :(

[mayhap]

I know! So sad. :(