L. Jagi Lamplighter
L. Jagi Lamplighter is an American children's and fantasy children's writer and editor. Personal life Lamplighter graduated from St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland. She is married to fellow author John C. Wright, and has four children. Lamplighter is a Christian Scientist Christian Science is a set of beliefs and practices associated with members of the Church of Christ, Scientist. Adherents are commonly known as Christian Scientists or students of Christian Science, and the church is sometimes informally know .... Works ''Prospero's Daughter'' trilogy Lamplighter's first three published novels form the ''Prospero's Daughter'' trilogy, whose narrator Miranda (The Tempest), Miranda is the daughter of the magician Prospero from Shakespeare's ''The Tempest.'' Set in the present day, it portrays Miranda and her siblings attempting to rescue their father from a Hell similar to Dante's Inferno. The trilogy received favorable starred reviews in ''Publishers Weekly'', w ...
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Children's Literature
Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are created for children. Modern children's literature is classified in two different ways: genre or the intended age of the reader. Children's literature can be traced to traditional stories like fairy tales, that have only been identified as children's literature in the eighteenth century, and songs, part of a wider oral tradition, that adults shared with children before publishing existed. The development of early children's literature, before printing was invented, is difficult to trace. Even after printing became widespread, many classic "children's" tales were originally created for adults and later adapted for a younger audience. Since the fifteenth century much literature has been aimed specifically at children, often with a moral or religious message. Children's literature has been shaped by religious sources, like Puritan traditions, or by more philosophical and scienti ...
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