tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10890387.post3436251705573490611..comments2023-12-25T00:38:19.500-08:00Comments on Finding Wonderland: The WritingYA Weblog (archive): TURNING PAGES/WCOB: The Changeling, by Zilpha Keatley SnyderSarah Stevensonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16534942492714970282noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10890387.post-80240255462724238042015-06-29T15:51:54.067-07:002015-06-29T15:51:54.067-07:00@Bluejay Young: Thanks for the correction - and fo...<b>@Bluejay Young</b>: Thanks for the correction - and for the heads up about your page! tanita✿davishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01671822274852087499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10890387.post-83704598456639230832015-06-26T10:59:03.531-07:002015-06-26T10:59:03.531-07:00Actually the cover of the 2004 BookImprint edition...Actually the cover of the 2004 BookImprint edition you have there was not from the 1980s. It was adapted (aquamarine color and all) from <a href="https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/e9/34/9a/e9349a1013797e5e96a878b9d0b95e98.jpg" rel="nofollow">the original cover from the 1970 first edition</a>. <br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2ZKbrpNwAbI/VO5XNgYe8BI/AAAAAAAAPg4/CAEleSxm81k/s1600/TheChangeling.jpg" rel="nofollow">Here's the original Atheneum paperback</a> -- more of a spring green color.<br /><br />The illustration is by Alton Raible (still alive), who did nearly all of Zilpha Keatley Snyder's books. <br /><br /><i>The Changeling</i> was out of print before 1980. The watercolor cover and the Dell Yearling cover you liked are from late-1980s reprints. Raible also did the "tornado" cover which is, as far as I can make out, the 1970 SBS paperback edition.<br /><br />I agree that the watercolor cover is terrible. It doesn't give you an accurate idea of who Ivy was the way the Yearling cover and Raible's "face in the leaves" cover do.<br /><br />I love Zilpha Snyder's books, especially the early ones. She is one of very few authors to actually depict the world of sustained fantasy games. I had one a lot like Ivy's (still do, it's more of a detailed daydream now), don't let anyone tell you boys don't play games like that. I took “drawing lessons” from Raible's illustrations for years. <br /><br />Did you catch the race hatred behind the ostracism of the Carsons? Their mother's name was Montoya; they were Hispanic. Another blogger has speculated Ivy was part Asian on her dad's side. Well, it was northern California, that's entirely plausible!<br /><br />I'll link to my page on Barbara Follett, a real "Changeling".Bluejay Younghttp://www.dreamshore.net/bluejay/barbara.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10890387.post-12702266362429813512013-03-12T14:45:35.227-07:002013-03-12T14:45:35.227-07:00I went through a huge ZKS stage when I was in 6th ...I went through a huge ZKS stage when I was in 6th or 7th grade! I was reading a lot of Diana Wynne Jones then, too, so I kind of link the two in my mind. That Dell Yearling cover is definitely the one I remember. <br /><br />Length is an interesting question--I've been thinking about it a bit because my publisher definitely seems to have a max length (at least when it comes to my books!!). I do wonder whether it's a side effect of the HP books. After all, it doesn't seem to be standalones that have gotten longer--it seems to be the series books.Sarah Stevensonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16534942492714970282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10890387.post-33596860075659387652013-03-09T11:06:27.459-08:002013-03-09T11:06:27.459-08:00I loved ZKS but never read this one--though I read...I loved ZKS but never read this one--though I read almost everything else of hers.<br />Back then, YA did skew younger, and it was more sanitized. A lot of what was considered YA then would probably be MG now, ZKS's work included.<br /><br />YA and MG also used to be shorter. Frex, SE Hinton's The Outsiders was a typical length for the time, though now it would be on the short end of publishable, and MG books were proportionally shorter also. And this fascinates me: was it just the effect of the long Harry Potter books on the market? We keep talking about how people have less time and attention for reading, yet our books have gotten longer.<br /><br />Jennifer R. Hubbardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03408588432492354248noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10890387.post-52942271696745732622013-03-08T14:30:47.947-08:002013-03-08T14:30:47.947-08:00AHA! I knew there was something I'd forgotten ...AHA! I knew there was something I'd forgotten - I have now added the link to your 2007 Under Radar review! I remembered that and smiled when I saw this book reissued. I'm glad to have brought you happy memories.tanita✿davishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01671822274852087499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10890387.post-57055056634002190852013-03-08T14:19:48.489-08:002013-03-08T14:19:48.489-08:00Oh, Tanita, this is one of my favorite books of al...Oh, Tanita, this is one of my favorite books of all time. I don't know that I could discuss it objectively, because (I'm showing my age here), I first read it when I was probably 10 or 11. But I always found it magical. I LOVE that never grow up poem. I actually think of it fairly often ;-) I would put this one as middle grade, not YA. Even as a teen, Martha isn't very mature by today's standards. <br /><br />Thanks for brightening my day. Jen Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10343476550309656223noreply@blogger.com