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Fire and Hemlock For Further Reference

Alderdice, Kit. "PW Interviews: Diana Wynne Jones." Publisher's Weekly 238: (February 22, 1991): 201-202. In this interview, Jones talks about how she began writing and about her concerns for children's literature.

Child, Francis James, ed. The English and Scottish Popular Ballads. Vol. 1.

New York: Folklore, 1956. Includes "Thomas the Rhymer" (pp. 317-329) and "Tarn Lin" (pp. 335-358).

Greenland, Colin. "Nine Halowe'ens."

The Times Literary Supplement (29 November 1985): 1358. Review of Fire and Hemlock that criticizes the shifting patterns of time and characters in the novel, noting that such "pervasive instability" makes the book difficult and often disturbing.

Hammond, Nancy C. "Fire and Hemlock." Horn Book (January/February 1985): 58. Points out the ways in which the novel contains both fantastic and realistic elements. Hammond recommends the novel particularly because Polly's fantastic adventures are "firmly grounded in her ordinary friendships,...
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