Spruced up evergreens: froms asps to underpants, the traditions of kids' literature get a delightful going-over this season.(brief reviews of severl new childrens' books)(The Arts)(Brief Article)

Newsweek | December 1, 1997| | Copyright

From asps to underpants, the traditions of kids' literature get a delightful going-over this season

FLANNERY O'CONNOR ONCE said that when she went to college, nobody mentioned any good Southern writers. "As far as I knew, the heroes of

Hawthorne and Melville and James and Crane and Hemingway were balanced on the Southern side by Brer Rabbit-an animal who can always hold up his end of the stick, in equal company, but here too much was being expected of him." Oh, yeah? O'Connor wasn't wrong about much, but she may have sold old Brer Rabbit short. Of course, ...

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