![]() ![]() And a Sydney, Australia teacher sent along this brilliant link.The Year 12 English curriculum at Loreto Normanhurst, a Catholic secondary school for girls in Normanhurst, NSW, Australia, has a web resource for Briar Rose with supporting links.Locus Best Seller List, debuting at #10.Science Fiction Chronicle: Best fantasy novel of the year.Movie star Kirsten Dunst has listed it as her favorite book. It is taught as a core book in many Holocaust courses and has been under option for the movies many times. It was a nominee for the 1994-6 South Carolina Junior Book Award. The book was a Nebula nominee and won the 1993 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature. The very first printing had, in the ad cards, my name as Jan Yolen. But when I had lunch with Terri Windling, the editor of a series of adult novels all based around folk tales, I told her about this camp. Yet I had recently done a YA novel about the Holocaust–“ The Devil’s Arithmetic“–and wasn’t eager to visit that awful research again. ![]() ![]() It suggested the fairy tale “Sleeping Beauty” in a horrible way. Castle, barbed wire, and the gassing of innocent folk. The idea for an adult novel on the subject of the Holocaust came to me when I was watching the documentary “Shoah” in which the concentration camp Chelmno was described. ![]()
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