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Katherine Paterson's reverence for words coupled with her respect for the power of story prompted her to keep writing for years when, not ready to publish, she was learning her craft. Her reluctance overcome, her apprenticeship served, the stories and es...

October 21, 1932. Born in the Jiangsu Province of China in the city of Qing Jiang. "If I tell you that I was born in China of Southern Presbyterian missionary parents, I have already given away the three chief clues to my tribal memory. "Let me start at...

Two-time Newbery Medal winner Katherine Paterson writes of children in crisis, at the crossroads of major decisions in their lives. Her youthful protagonists turn "tragedy to triumph by bravely choosing a way that is not selfishly determined," according...

Bridge to Terabithia dir. Gabor Csupo Tweens are soulless little monsters. Especially the tween girls-with their embroidered jeans and flip, nonchalant chatter-who walked out of Bridge to Terabithia, a movie conceived specifically for them and which, if their hearts weren't made of...

A Buena Vista release of a Walt Disney Pictures and Walden Media presentation of a Hal Lieberman Co. and tauten Levine production. Produced by Lieberman, Levine, David Paterson. Executive producer, Alex Schwartz. Co-producers, Kevin Halloran, Tim Coddington, Meyer Shwarzstein. Directed by Gabor...

The comic-book adaptation "Ghost Rider" burned the competition at the weekend box office, fending off a rush of new movies to rake in $19.7 million in its second week, according to studio estimates Sunday.The Sony film starring Nicolas Cage as a motorcycle stuntman turned Satanic...

The biker buddy comedy "Wild Hogs" and its ensemble cast of John Travolta, Martin Lawrence, William H. Macy and Tim Allen was the weekend box office champ with a $38 million take, according to studio estimates Sunday.It was Walt Disney Co.'s biggest March opening ever....

Love stories, good love stories, are rare today. [Bridge to Terabithia] is a beautiful one, encompassing all the tones and nuances of deep feeling, all the entanglement lovers feel with each other's sensitivities and interpretations of life…. This is not a love story of physical encounter but a fusion of souls and minds. To shy Jess, Leslie's philosophy opens new doors. Her sudden death threatens to crush him before he has learned to live her teachings. Her strength, however, continues ...

Not only is [Bridge to Terabithia] … unusual because it portrays a believable relationship between a boy and a girl at an age when same-sex friendships are the norm but it also presents an unromantic, realistic, and moving reaction to personal tragedy. Jess and Leslie are so effectively developed as characters that young readers might well feel that they were their classmates. (p. 61)

Jack Forman, in School Library Journal (reprinted from the November, 1977 issue of School Library Journa...

What seems at first the main fault of [Bridge to Terabithia]—its light loosely woven structure—becomes its most important quality. The fabric of loosely woven thoughts is an integral part of the story. The short, sharp American dialogue is rather off-putting, as is the opening theme, but these are overcome by the developing charm and simplicity. This book grows on you, and you may not realise how much you have enjoyed it until the end. (pp. 23-4)

Penelope Curtis, in Book Window (&...

Friendship and its role in Bridge to Terabithia.