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A walk with a Wizard (for Tolkien) and a Lion (for Lewis) through the life stories of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. From their difficult childhoods, their WWI experiencesand to their eventual fellowship at Oxford and their shared love of Norse mythology. It also reflects on the events that shaped their ideas and the worlds of Narnia and Lord of the Rings.
Much like "The Faithful Spy" The Mythmakers is also a mashup of text, illustrations and graphic style storytelling. It has "choose your own adventure" elements where the reader can jump to another section of the book to get more information about literary subjects like Myth and Fairy Tale. Rated by the publisher as 10-14yo the vocabulary is difficult, the text tiny and it is a review of things I learned in college, including references to classical literature like The Canterbury Tales and Beowulf, and long discussions of Theology. This is going to go over their heads. I understood it, but I have a lot of background knowledge. Tolkien and Lewis are white.
Lisa Librarian
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