![]() Hunger and secrecy are part of what this family lives with every day. Dad runs a windmill, one of the few non-electric water-pumps in service. In The Winged Watchman, the main characters are a Catholic family living in Nazi occupied rural Holland. While upholding virtue, they might introduce us to unpleasant and even life-threatening conflict. ![]() Do such books encase us in a bubble? They don’t have to. Good fiction increases our understanding and our sympathies. I love this story.Īs I continue in my Preface of Blackberry Inn, “All fiction is useful chiefly to animate truth, to inspire some noble aim or sweet spirit.” It was the “idyllic principle” that enabled me to warm up to the story, The Winged Watchman by Hilda van Stockum. One of my aims in writing was to demonstrate that the “idyllic principle” is also applicable to stories for grown-ups. I believe an author of children’s fiction has a duty to describe the world as it ought to be, as it can be.Ī blog friend gave me this book mark after she visited Prince Edward Island this summer. I admit to joining the ranks of the idealistic. In my Preface to Lessons at Blackberry Inn I admit to something. ![]()
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