Wistful for me is especially Thornton W. Burgess, most specifically his longer books in which Peter Rabbit goes to visit the seashore and the big meadow and learns all about the real plants and animals found there. Gods, I loved those.
I can't read Black Beauty or Bambi without hearing my mother's voice and picturing the room I shared with my younger brother at the time. It had ugly wallpaper. ;p That room is also associated with having measles and having to stay home from school, which made me pretty miserable at the time.
We have some furry authors today who are superb writers, though alas, I feel some of them focus too much on erotica. They would be capable of works to exceed those of Richard Adams if they turned their efforts in that direction. Of course, they are probably doing better in terms of popularity and income with the erotica, so I dare not criticize too heavily. Meanwhile my own non-erotic writing languishes for want of a market...
I don't know J. Allen Bosworth, but I'll look him up. And if you liked Grahame's The Wind in the Willows then I strongly recommend Jan Needle's The Wild Wood to you. It's hard to find in the US, but worth the effort. Needle retells Grahame's novel, but from the viewpoint of one of the ferrets, dovetailing his account of the other side perfectly into the incidents Grahame related. It's fantastic, and beautifully done. The ferret, whose name is Baxter, was actually an employee of Toad for a while, and was the chauffeur who drove up to the door in the new car on the day on which Badger arrived to "take Toad in hand." Baxter was sent away, the car rejected, and his job lost. My longer review is here.
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Date: 2009-09-09 09:33 pm (UTC)I can't read Black Beauty or Bambi without hearing my mother's voice and picturing the room I shared with my younger brother at the time. It had ugly wallpaper. ;p That room is also associated with having measles and having to stay home from school, which made me pretty miserable at the time.
We have some furry authors today who are superb writers, though alas, I feel some of them focus too much on erotica. They would be capable of works to exceed those of Richard Adams if they turned their efforts in that direction. Of course, they are probably doing better in terms of popularity and income with the erotica, so I dare not criticize too heavily. Meanwhile my own non-erotic writing languishes for want of a market...
I don't know J. Allen Bosworth, but I'll look him up. And if you liked Grahame's The Wind in the Willows then I strongly recommend Jan Needle's The Wild Wood to you. It's hard to find in the US, but worth the effort. Needle retells Grahame's novel, but from the viewpoint of one of the ferrets, dovetailing his account of the other side perfectly into the incidents Grahame related. It's fantastic, and beautifully done. The ferret, whose name is Baxter, was actually an employee of Toad for a while, and was the chauffeur who drove up to the door in the new car on the day on which Badger arrived to "take Toad in hand." Baxter was sent away, the car rejected, and his job lost. My longer review is here.