J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone performs a curious double task: it reanimates familiar strands of the British children’s-book tradition (the orphaned schoolboy, the boarding school adventure, the fairy-tale quest) while announcing, with surprising economy, the existence of a fully imagined parallel moral universe. Read as a discrete text rather than merely the … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time is at once a children’s novel, a piece of speculative philosophy, and a coming-of-age parable. First published in 1962, the book has endured because it refuses the condescension often levelled at “juvenile” literature: it addresses the emotional complexity of growing up and the metaphysical questions adults worry over, but … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
The New Renaissance Mindset 