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Blog 1 – Reading biography
Youth literature, written for adolescents but adored by adults. Let me start with a fun fact. According to Ferguson (2019), 39% of youth literature is sold to adults, that’s wild! According to Jasper Rees (2003), adults love youth literature because of escapism and the feeling of freedom. The naïve part of these stories makes them…
Blog 4 – The search for identity, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
For this week’s blog, I read Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. Although this is a popular novel, the public might only recognize the title because of the film adaptation, which was directed by Tim Burton. Not that it matters, but in my opinion, the book outshines the movie. Therefore, I will elaborate on how…
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Literature II: Youth Literature 