![]() They’ll go and make it smart and pertinent and real and wonderful. ![]() And if they’re particularly talented, then they’ll do the series one better. If they’re good they’ll offer food for thought, as when Jacqueline Kelly wrote, Return to the Willows (the sequel to The Wind in the Willows) and Geraldine McCaughrean wrote Peter Pan in Scarlet. But once in a while an author gets it right. No, there’s very little reason to speculate on precisely what happened to Anne before she got to Green Gables. No, we need no further adventures in the 100-Acre Woods. ![]() Anytime someone writes a new prequel or sequel to an old children’s literary classic, the first question you have to ask is, “Was this necessary?” And nine times out of ten, the answer is a resounding no. ![]()
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