children’s literature

Mysteries of the Indian Jungle – Emilio Salgari’s Orientalist adventures

By |2019-12-04T11:33:10+01:00September 12th, 2018|Categories: Education and Taste, North India, North India Readings, Reading|Tags: , , , , , |

No Italian writer has left a deeper and more lasting imprint over Italian readers of a certain exotic image of India than Emilio Salgari (1862-1922). His adventure books spanning four continents rank among the classics of adventure/children’s literature. Indeed, were popularity alone determined membership to world literature, Salgari would count as the foremost Italian writer in the world.

Kamel Kilani’s magical stories revolutionized Arabic children’s literature

By |2019-12-04T12:10:32+01:00January 1st, 2018|Categories: Genre, Maghreb, Reading|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

Kamel Kilani, a pioneer of children's literature in Arabic, translated and redacted from a remarkably catholic range of sources, as Egyptian writer Baheyya explores in this reposted blog

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