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Assoc for Scottish Literature

Elle McNicoll’s 2020 debut, A KIND OF SPARK, won the Blue Peter Book Award & the Overall Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, as well as Blackwell’s Book of 2020. Her latest YA novel, WISH YOU WERE HER, will be published in June. She is an advocate for better representation of neurodiversity in publishing, as an autistic & dyspraxic novelist.

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About Elle | Elle McNicoll · About Elle | Elle McNicollElle is a Scottish and Neurodivergent writer. Her first children’s novel, A Kind of Spark, stars two openly autistic young women and was published in June 2020 by award-winning indie press Knights Of.
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If this don’t fetch the kids, why, they have gone rotten since my day.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, writing to W.E. Henley about TREASURE ISLAND (24 Aug 1881)

Matthew Bevis on TREASURE ISLAND & some of its spinoffs, in the London Review of Books, 25 Oct 2012

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London Review of Books · Matthew Bevis · Kids Gone Rotten: ‘Treasure Island’
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Cindy Sue

Attack of the Black Rectangles by Amy Sarig King was fantastic! Honestly, I was stuck in my cabin last night because of the ice storm and I only have like ten books there. This one caught my eye so I grabbed it. I was able to finish tonight. A great story about censorship in a middle school classroom. The main character has a lot of real world problems going on- his dad is an asshole, he has his first crush. Highly recommend for ages 8-13.

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Cover of Attack of the Black Rectangles by Amy Sarig King. Cover has white boy on it with black rectangles all over the cover and over his mouth. Boy is in red shirt and has blonde hair.
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“I have three extra physical sets and I travel with an ebook version of them in my iPad. These stories started their journey with me when I was very young.”

—Guillermo del Toro on Andrew Lang’s Fairy Books

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theguardian.com/film/2015/oct/

The Guardian · Guillermo del Toro: the books, TV, films and music that brought me to Crimson PeakBy Guardian staff reporter
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“To me, Lang himself is a hero of literature. Besides being the champion of Robert Louis Stevenson & Haggard, he was the first critic to produce a study of Kipling’s work, found a publisher for the young Arthur Conan Doyle’s first major novel… & repeatedly informed the English that Mark Twain was one of the world’s great writers”

—Michael Dirda on Andrew Lang, in the Washington Post

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The Washington Post · More than a century later, the wonderful work of Andrew Lang holds up remarkably wellBy Michael Dirda
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“His own fairy narratives, however, and their success in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain, suggest… that fairies persist, & become figures of fascination in this period, not because they offer an escape into the past, but because they speak powerfully, if indirectly, about present concerns”

—Andrew Teverson on Andrew Lang & the Fairies

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thebottleimp.org.uk/2016/12/a-

The Bottle Imp · 'A Shy and Fugitive People': Andrew Lang and the Fairies - The Bottle ImpFor Andrew Lang, the realm of fairy land was synonymous with escape. Writing in The New Princeton Review in 1888, the same year in which he assembled his authoritative edition of Perrault’s fairy tales and completed his own novel about fairy abduction The Gold of Fairnilee, Lang lamented the insistence in modern writing upon the ‘ugly, manly face […]
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