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Sad news - No more feasts in Redwall
Feb. 8th, 2011 09:51 amI'm a bit behind the ball, but work has been somewhat chaotic lately. I've just learned that Brian Jacques, the author of the many books in the Redwall epic, died over the weekend.
I read several of the books in fifth or sixth grade, and stopped reading them because I could not work out the timeline. But I loved the animals, the squirrel archers up in the trees, the brave mice, and the amazing food! I later learned that the feasts were so impressive because the stories were written for children at a school for the blind, and that Brian Jacques worked hard to provide non-visual imagery as well as visual.
News stories here:
New York Times Obit: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/09/arts/09jacques.html?_r=2
http://www.examiner.com/speculative-fiction-in-national/brian-jacques-author-of-the-redwall-series-passes-away
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-12380763
The Official Site:
http://www.redwall.org/
Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Jacques
Edited to add the New York Times obit
I read several of the books in fifth or sixth grade, and stopped reading them because I could not work out the timeline. But I loved the animals, the squirrel archers up in the trees, the brave mice, and the amazing food! I later learned that the feasts were so impressive because the stories were written for children at a school for the blind, and that Brian Jacques worked hard to provide non-visual imagery as well as visual.
News stories here:
New York Times Obit: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/09/arts/09jacques.html?_r=2
http://www.examiner.com/speculative-fiction-in-national/brian-jacques-author-of-the-redwall-series-passes-away
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-12380763
The Official Site:
http://www.redwall.org/
Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Jacques
Edited to add the New York Times obit
