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Glynnis Fawkes

Cartoonist, archaeological illustrator, educator
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Some Great Works of Literature with Comments by a Child in the New Yorker

June 30, 2018

This comic appeared in the New Yorker in April.  We read one third of Jane Eyre, the first two chapters of Great Expectations, and nothing beyond the first chapter of Wuthering Heights-- but enough to get essential commentary on the books.  

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Tags The New Yorker, literature, childhood, CharlotteBronte, rabbits, reading, Tolkien, books

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