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"Growing up in a rather limited, narrow environment," Zilpha Keatley Snyder writes in Innocence & Experience: Essays & Conversations on Children's Literature, "I escaped through books and game...
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Critical Essay by Ethel L. Heins
[When Pamela in Season of Ponies] is given her great-grandmother's curious amulet,… with its cryptic message, "Give the searching heart an eye, an...
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Critical Essay by Jean Fritz
In a succession of distinguished books, Zilpha Keatley Snyder has been exploring the nature of magic, not only for the benefit of children, one feels, but to satisfy herse...
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Critical Essay by Jane Langton
Zilpha Keatley Snyder has proven herself a nimble-fingered craftswoman before, in "The Egypt Game" and "The Velvet Room," but in "The ...
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Critical Essay by Virginia Haviland
The sureness with which the author draws her young characters and the deep perception and wisdom of her understanding of peer interplay and conversation will draw t...
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Critical Essay by Patricia H. Allen
There are several things that seem contrived and unrealistic [in The Velvet Room]; yet somehow the author manages to transform lack of reality into a fairy-tale lik...
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Critical Essay by Matilda Kornfeld
After a slow-moving start [Below the Root] gathers speed and moves along with suspense to a not quite satisfactory end—one which certainly calls for a sequel&...
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Critical Essay by Georgess Mchargue
"And All Between" is the self-contained successor to [Zilpha Snyder's] earlier "Below the Root." (It is so self-contained, in fac...
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Critical Essay by Zena Sutherland
In the second volume of an intricately conceived fantasy [And All Between], the pending conflict of Below the Root … becomes confrontation…. Like the fi...
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Critical Essay by James Norsworthy
A brief review such as this does not permit full recounting of the exciting characterizations, marvelous depth and intricate yet most readable plot that Mrs. Snyder ...
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Critical Essay by Jane Langton
[Zilpha Snyder] attempts an overview of her troubled nation-states [in "Until the Celebration"]. But she doesn't have the zoom lens, or even an inte...
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Critical Essay by Margaret P. Esmonde
Until the Celebration, the final book in Zilpha Keatley Snyder's "Greensky" science fiction trilogy, is the least successful of the three. Be...
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Critical Essay by Margaret P. Esmonde
In her books, Below The Root and And All Between, Zilpha K. Snyder chooses to examine man's inhumanity to fellow man arising out of the abuse of power ...
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Critical Essay by Christine Kardokas
Heirs of Darkness is Zilpha Keatley Snyder's trip into the world of adult fiction à la Judy Blume. Snyder's following is of a kind that enjoys...
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Critical Essay by Ruth Hill Viguers
Robin's character [in The Velvet Room] has far more facets than the usual sensitive child of fiction who needs a private place for dreaming. She is normally ...
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Critical Essay by Barbara Elleman
[This] suspenseful mystery [The Famous Stanley Kidnapping Case] takes the family on a sabbatical year to Italy. A leisurely beginning lingers too long on the technica...
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Critical Essay by Zena Sutherland
[In The Famous Stanley Kidnapping Case] Amanda, although less hostile [than in The Headless Cupid], is still causing trouble; it's her boasting about her rich ...
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Critical Essay by Ruth Hill Viguers
[Black and Blue Magic includes] some remarkable adventures…. Magical events, which are always humorous and often downright funny, a good sense of place, and ...
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Critical Essay by Jane Yolen
A fantasy may be laid in the here-and-now, but in order to soar beyond its everyday setting, it must be written with imagination and better than average prose. [In "...
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Critical Essay by Ruth Hill Viguers
Although the events are not gentle, the relationship between Dion and Sara [in Eyes in the Fishbowl] suggests the Portrait of Jennie [by Robert Nathan]. Strange, un...
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Critical Essay by Alice Fleming
The story [of "Eyes in the Fishbowl"] is told from Dion's point of view and suffers from the limits of a 14-year-old's vocabulary and descri...
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Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Critical Essay by Ethel L. Heins
