Fenton's love for Greece can be witnessed through the number of books that he wrote about the country. He has written two picture books which include Alekos's Island, 1948, and An Island for a Pelican, 1963. These books are simple with straightforward stories; however they provided stepping stones for the author to write his two other young adult historical novels: The Refugee Summer, 1982 and The Morning of the Gods, 1987.
Through these books one glimpses authentic cultural and historical settings of Greece, the first being set during the Asia Minor catastrophe in a suburb.....
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