![]() While we still expect Canadian children to read Anne of Green Gables in the original as a rite of pre-teen passage, no one expects kids to handle Victor Hugo or Bram Stoker in the original. While teachers and librarians might quietly praise her efforts to bring the book to younger and less-able readers, critics were not nearly as kind.īut Tim Wynne-Jones is luckily not tampering with semi-sacred Canadian works. ![]() Just ask Barbara Greenwood, whose efforts to retell Anne of Green Gables garnered a number of critical brickbats for tampering with a Canadian classic. Such adaptations can be a risky enterprise. Lately – between serious kids’ books, you might say – Wynne-Jones has turned his hand to retelling the classics: The Hunchback of Notre Dame in 1996 and Dracula for this fall’s book season. ![]() His more recent young-adult works, Some of the Kinder Planets and The Maestro, have garnered Governor General’s awards and bestsellerdom. His very first book, Zoom, was a huge Canadian and international success with its combination of Wynne-Jones’s own bizarre imagination and a staple of the children’s book trade, an interesting animal. ![]() Tim Wynne-Jones seems to have a golden touch when it comes to books for young people. ![]()
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