Talk:Book:The Wee Free Men

I know the content pages aren't the place for literary criticism or speculation, so I'll put this note here to see who bites.

There's a link, on the Reading Suggestions page, to Irish childrens' author Pat O'Shea. Re-reading the early chapters of The Wee Free Men, it has just struck me how the scene between Tiffany and Miss Tick, when they meet for the first time, is in all aspects pure pastiche of O'Shea. The setting reflects one of the bizarre, slightly dream-like, "country fairs" of her Irish faeryscape - right down to the in-line text drawings. There is O'Shea's obligatory talking animal - not Cù Rùa the wise fox, but the "yellow, sick, toad" There is the superficially whimsical dialogue between Tiffany and Miss Tick, but which hides deeper realities.

Check out The Hounds of the Morrigan, particularly the Swapping Fair scenes, to see what I maen here...--AgProv 13:26, 23 July 2008 (UTC)