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Text Reflections: Fantasy and Science Fiction

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Chapter 13: Fantasy & Science Fiction                 Fantasy is my wheelhouse; science fiction is not as much but I still enjoy it immensely. Basically, fantasy (this includes sci-fi) is literature that contains aspects that seem impossible, at least very improbable. Floating sky-islands, faeries, robo-pirates and magic are some examples of what one might find in a fantasy novel. This type of literature requires very good descriptive skills and a certain level of believability so that the reader can achieve suspension of disbelief, or get lost in the plot enough to buy it.                 There are certain aspects of fantasy that have to be reliable, however. As a reader, we have to know what the boundaries of the make-believe world are; what is possible and impossible there. These rules cannot change constantly or the reader...
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"Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby

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1.        Ruby, Laura (2015) Bone Gap. New York, NY: HarperCollins Children’s Books. ISBN: 978-0-06-231760-5 This book really surprised me! I went through half of it before realizing that it is a tantalizing combination of reality and fantasy that is hinted at just enough to keep the reader wondering if they imagined a monster just like the protagonist.   Finn watched his brother’s “girlfriend” (no label involved) be kidnapped and blames himself for not stopping or identifying the kidnapper. It seems like his brother Sean and the whole town of Bone Gap blame him too. The only person who doesn’t seem to blame him is Priscilla, Petey, the local beekeeper’s daughter who is ridiculed herself for being strange.  It is Petey that realizes that Finn is more than just “Moon Eyed” and actually has a condition in which he cannot identify people by their faces. She spurs Finn to save Roza from a character akin to the “ trickster ” popular in mythol...
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"This is Not My Hat" by Jon Klassen

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  Bibliography ·          Klassen, Jon. (2012). This is Not MyHat. Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press. ISBN 978-0-7636-5599-0 Summary ·          This book recounts the journey of a fish who has stolen the hat of another, much larger, fish. The mischievous small fish believes he has gotten away with his crime, but the large fish is onto him and manages to get his long-lost hat back. Analysis ·                Jon Klassen’ s simple style wonderfully tells this story by leaving just enough to the imagination of the child. The small fish admits to the wrong he has done on the first page and draw in the young reader with a hint of rebelliousness. It could potentially serve as a great lesson in morality, (or karma) for a parent and child to share.      Because of it’s bare-bones style, much of the stor...
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