![]() ![]() ![]() But equally, the old had not entirely given way to the new: for instance, as the earlier Letterpress reviews note, you can see that Susan Cooper was still seeking to reconcile elements of dark fantasy with the sort of Enid Blyton-style adventure stories that had previously dominated writing for children (this is especially the case in Over Sea, Under Stone and Greenwitch). Writing for younger readers – and especially fantasy writing – was becoming not just darker and more challenging, but more inventive too in how it used myth, magic and folklore. The five The Dark is Rising novels offer a crash-course in what was happening in children’s literature during the 1960s and 70s. I had extremely fond memories of reading these in the late-70s but had never read the rest of the sequence. The first two volumes in the sequence – Over Sea, Under Stone and The Dark is Rising – are already reviewed on Letterpress. ![]() I began with some of Alan Garner’s work ( Letterpress review) and moved on to the five novels in Susan Cooper’s wonderful The Dark is Rising sequence. Over the past couple of weeks I have found myself rereading some spectacular children’s literature from the 1960s and 70s. Posted on Susan Cooper’s The Dark is Rising sequence ![]()
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