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Unbudgeable Feelings: Toon Tellegen’s “The Cricket’s Healing,” Translated from Dutch by David Colmer
Toon Tellegen’s “The Cricket’s Healing,” translated by David Colmer, explores themes of loneliness and depression through animal fables. Behind his surreal metaphors and silly yet strange encounters between animals, we can find very real social commentary and a deep analysis of the landscape of the human mind.
“Children are Born Persons”: Toon Tellegen’s “I Wish,” translated from Dutch by David Colmer
By Kelsi Vanada Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is, for me, a prime example of a book with a child narrator that’s often included in literature curricula for middle schoolers, but which in many ways speaks to an adult audience. I taught at a small K-8 school for a few years right out of […]