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| Picture courtesy of Michael Tunnel, BYU |
Happy Birthday Lloyd Alexander! Today is January 30th, 2011 and were he still here with us, would have been Lloyd Alexander’s 87th birthday.
I couldn’t think of a better day to launch this blog, “Friends of Lloyd Alexander”. I have big dreams for this blog. My vision is that this will be a one stop shop for information and discussion of the work, life and ongoing legacy and influence of Lloyd Alexander.
PS: Thanks to Karen Sterling, librarian at Pennridge North Middle School, for planting the idea that a blog would be a great way to share all of my research.
I couldn’t think of a better day to launch this blog, “Friends of Lloyd Alexander”. I have big dreams for this blog. My vision is that this will be a one stop shop for information and discussion of the work, life and ongoing legacy and influence of Lloyd Alexander.
There are several goals that I hope to achieve in this ongoing project:
- Have fun and celebrate creativity and imagination
- For the last two years, it has been my pleasure to host the annual “Lloyd Alexander Remembrance Day” at both Drexel Hill Middle School in Drexel Hill, PA and also at Pennridge North Middle School in Perkasie, PA. I will recap and report on those events here.
- As part of my research for Lloyd Alexander Remembrance Day it has been a joy to interview many of his friends and associates (hence the title of this blog). I would like to share those insights and stories with you.
- My online research has uncovered a number of other like minded individuals who in some way, shape or form have celebrated Lloyd and his work. We’ll see them here also.
- Finally, my “big project” comes to me as an inspiration from “Julie and Julia”. Although he is most well known as the Newbery Award winning author of the Prydain Chronicles, Lloyd Alexander wrote more than 40 books. I have spent time over the last two years collecting those books. I plan on reading them in the order in which he wrote them, and then blogging about my ideas and impressions of them. Not a literary critique, but more of a “Chris and Lloyd” project.
PS: Thanks to Karen Sterling, librarian at Pennridge North Middle School, for planting the idea that a blog would be a great way to share all of my research.
What a wonderful idea! Lloyd Alexander's work touched so many lives, and it continues to do so. This is a great way to remind the virtual community that his legacy is worth preserving.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you, Clare. What a great idea this is! I will definitely keep my eyes on this space, and I will offer thoughts and comments any time I have something useful to contribute.
ReplyDeleteI remember reading 5 Prydian chronicles from Lloyd Alexander called "The Book of Three", "The Black Cauldron", "Castle of Llyr", "Taran Wanderer" and The High King." I enjoyed reading them. When I saw the Disney cartoon movie "The Black Cauldron" I was disappointed with the changes made in the Disney movie. Many characters were left out of the movie. Also The movie crammed "The Book of Three" and "The Black Cauldron" into one rushed movie. I thought the movie could've been adapted better.
ReplyDeleteNow I want a movie remake of The Black Cauldron made into better movie. I have a petition of one at change.org called remake the Black Cauldron movie. I hope to get thousands of people to sign the petition.