![]() Two of the runners-up for the 1999 Guardian Children's Book Prize, Kit's Wilderness and King of Shadows, are recent examples. ![]() The list also reveals that there are much earlier antecedents for this genre at the beginning of the century, and that the device is still very much with us. Books using this device seem to cluster in the 1960s and '70s-as can be seen from this (by no means exhaustive) chronological list: 1906 Rudyard Kipling, Puck of Pook's Hillġ906 Edith Nesbit, The Story of the Amuletġ954 Lucy Boston, The Children of Green Knoweġ958 Philippa Pearce, Tom's Midnight Gardenġ973 Penelope Lively, The Ghost of Thomas Kempeġ974 Penelope Lively, The House in Norham Gardens ![]() In this article, I want to look at a group of English children's novels that features the "time-slip" device: that is, the protagonist slips back in time, characters from the past reappear in the present, or both. Time-Slip Narratives and National Identity Tess Cosslett ![]() In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: ![]()
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