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Other Writing
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CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOOKS I have not kept a systematic record of my contributions to books by others, which include items as far out of my normal writing range as various volumes of the Time Life Good Cook series. Below are some of the more significant ones. If anyone knows if the Puffin Modern Classics editions of The Changes by Peter Dickinson and Cue for Treason by Geoffrey Trease were ever published, I would be interested to know; I remember writing Afterwords for them, but not ever seeing copies. Entries in Twentieth Century Childrens Writers, ed. Kirkpatrick, Macmillan 1978, revised for the 3rd edition, St James Press, 1989 Childrens Literature and the Oral Tradition, in Further Approaches to Research in Childrens Literature, ed. Hunt, Uwist Modern English Series, 1981 Alan Garner, in A Fantasy Reader, ed. Frane & Rems, 1981 Entries in The Fontana Biographical Companion to Modern Thought, ed. Bullock & Woodings, Fontana, 1983 Afterword in The Stone Book Quartet by Alan Garner, Dell, 1988 The Wind in the Willows: The Vitality of a Classic, in Children and Their Books: A Celebration of the Work of Iona and Peter Opie, ed. Avery & Briggs, Oxford University Press, 1989; a version of this also published as The Wind in the Willows: A Companionable Vitality, in Touchstones: Reflections on the Best in Childrens Literature, ed. Nodelman, ChLA, 1985 Introduction to Fanny Hill by John Cleland, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1989 Introduction to The Railway Children by E. Nesbit, ill. Pamela Kay, Heinemann, 1989 Dreamtime, in Travellers in Time, CLNE/Green Bay, 1990 Afterword in The Golden Goose Book by L. Leslie Brooke, Clarion, 1992 Afterword in Ring o Roses by Leslie L. Brooke, Clarion, 1992 Introduction in The Complete Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling, ill. Isabelle Brent, Little, Brown, 1993 Introduction in The Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde, ill. Isabelle Brent, 1994 Afterword in A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin, Puffin Modern Classics, 1994 Afterword in The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper, Puffin Modern Classics, 1994 Afterword in Smith by Leon Garfield, Puffin Modern Classics, 1994 Introduction in The Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde, ill. Isabelle Brent, Little, Brown, 1994 Introduction and Notes in The Ocean of Story: Fairy Tales from India by Caroline Ness, ill. Jacqueline Mair, 1995 Consultant, The Illustrated Dictionary of Mythology by Philip Wilkinson, 1998 Creativity and Tradition in the Fairy Tale, in Companion to the Fairy Tale, ed. Ellis Davidson & Chaudhri, Boydell & Brewer, 2003 ESSAYS, INTERVIEWS, & REVIEWS From the late 1970s through the 1980s I contributed a huge amount of literary journalism to various newspapers and journals, from The Times through to little poetry magazines. In recent years I have continued this at a less frenetic pace. At no time did I keep a proper record of this output, so the few items recorded here are simply those I have to hand (discounting simple book reviews). The bulk of my reviewing was done for The Times Educational Supplement and British Book News, and the most important of my essays appeared in Signal, but over the years I have contributed, among others, to: The Times, The Times Educational Supplement, The Times Higher Educational Supplement, The Times Literary Supplement, The Sunday Times, British Book News, The Listener, The Literary Review, Folklore, Childrens Literature in Education, Signal, The School Librarian, the Newsletter of the Childrens Books History Society, Books for Keeps, Now!, Between the Lines, Aquarius, Labrys, Tract. With any luck I will find the time at some point to improve and expand this section of the site. ESSAYS The Function of Myth in Childrens Literature, Tract 29 & 30, c.1979 Cinderellas Many Guises: A Look at Early Sources and Recent Versions, Signal, 1980 Garner and Shamanism, Labrys 7, 1981 Fantasy: Double Cream or Instant Whip?, Signal, 1981 Toms Midnight Garden and the Vision of Eden, Signal, 1982 Magic in the Poetry of Charles Causley, Signal, 1982 The Signal Poetry Award, Signal, 1983, 1984, 1985 What Makes a Childrens Classic?, TES 13/1/1984 This Way Confusion?, Signal, 1984 Children, If You Dare to Think...: The Importance of Poetry, The School Librarian, June 1985 The Lore of the Rings, TES 31/1/1992 Englands Dreaming, Signal, January 1997 The Shared Moment: Thoughts on Children & Poetry, Signal, January 1999 The Cinderella Cycle, programme note for La Cenerentola, Royal Opera House, 2000 The Arabian Nights, Books for Keeps, May 2002 Tales of the Rusalki, programme note for Rusalka, Royal Opera House, 2003 Telling Tales, programme note for The Sleeping Beauty, Royal Opera House, 2003 The Shawl of the Beauty of the World: The Childrens Books of Ted Hughes, Signal 100, 2003 The Little Prince (Hans Christian Andersen), The Times, 8 January 2005 Hans Christian Andersen: The Man, Books for Keeps, May 2005 Why Do We Really Tell St ories?, Books for Keeps, January 2008 INTERVIEWS Helen Cresswell: Facing Into the Light, TES 27/3/1981 Geoffrey Trease: Into a New World, British Book News Childrens Books Supplement, Autumn 1982 Philippa Pearce: Understanding Childrens Thoughts, British Book News Childrens Books Supplement, Autumn 1983 Elsa Posell: Survival, TES 30/3/1984 Margaret Mahy: The Other Side of Invention, TES 10/1/1995 Other interviewees, details of publication lost in the mists of time, included P. L. Travers, Mary Norton, Jan Mark, Charles Causley, and Jill Paton Walsh (all for the TES), and no doubt others. VARIOUS My one stage play, Her Who Is Never Forgotten, about John Clare, was directed at the Tower Theatre Club in Islington by Colin Smith, in 1984. In 1985 BBC Radio 4 broadcast three documentary plays with music, adapted by me from my book Between Earth and Sky: The Lads that Can Keep Along the Plough; Silence Becomes Me Best; and White Slaves of England. A proposed stage play based on the same material was never produced. In the early 1980s I wrote commentaries and accompanying booklets for several documentary films, including Responsibility: A Film About People; London Pride: 100 Years of the Metropolitan Public Gardens Association; and Fine Timing: The New Runway at Manchester Airport. Fine Timing won the Financial Times Export Award, 1982.
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