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Playing (with) Persephone

Posted on December 31, 2019January 5, 2023 by Rebecca Resinski

In 2013 the theme for the Children’s Literature Association conference was “Play and Risk,” and I presented “Playing (with) Persephone in Eva Ibbotson’s Dragonfly Pool and Company of Swans.” (Click on the paper title for a PDF of the talk.)

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