It seems UK/US readers aren't always going to be familiar with the other's beloved YA/children's classics. Alan Garner seems to be another that's popular in the UK but not very well known in the US. I suspect Judy Blume might not have been as popular in the UK in the 1970s/1980s as she was here in the US.
Two nations divided by a common language and all that jazz
Two nations divided by a common language and all that jazz
Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie
Je suis méchant.
Je suis méchant.
Duncton Wood: How have I never heard of this? (Seriously not a rhetorical question.)
- 06/10/2012 10:27:36 PM
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i've never heard of it either and i also loved watership down... *NM*
- 07/10/2012 07:25:16 PM
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It seems to be a UK publication
- 07/10/2012 08:02:08 PM
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