To Find Refreshment in Writing Children’s Books: A Note on Margaret Laurence’s Writing for Children

Margaret Laurence wrote four books for children. The only thing that is interesting about them is that she wrote them at all. They might be called a footnote to her adult fiction and criticism, but they are not really even that. They are irrelevant, not only to Laurence’s larger body of work, but to...

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Zusammenfassung:	Margaret Laurence wrote four books for children. The only thing that is interesting about them is that she wrote them at all. They might be called a footnote to her adult fiction and criticism, but they are not really even that. They are irrelevant, not only to Laurence’s larger body of work, but to the larger body of literature for children in Canada. All four books,Jason’s Quest, Six Darn Cows, The Olden Days Coat,andThe Christmas Birthday Story, were written in the late 1960s and the 1970s when children’s literature was burgeoning in Canada in the same way