Canadian Fantasy: Thoughts on <em>The Golden Pine Cone</em>

Abstract

Résumé: La romancière se sert de son expérience personnelle afin d'explorer la nature, le sens et la fonction des récits merveilleux. D'abord hostile à ce genre narratif, elle s'est converté à la lecture du roman The Golden Pine Cone de Catherine A. Clark, qui lui a fait découvrir que le merveilleux aborde les questions fondamentales et amène l'enfant à croire en soi et à envisager un avenir meilleur. Summary: Mary Razzell, the author of several works of fiction for young readers, uses her personal experience to probe the essential nature, meaning, and function of fantasy literature. Starting with how she read and resisted fantasy as a child, she moves to her conversion after reading Catherine Anthony Clark's The Golden Pine Cone: she came to see that good fantasy asks important and relevant questions, and it guides the child reader to believe in possibilities that give hope for a more satisfying and meaningful life.