"Make Way for Ducklings" [Was: novel]

[Joel S. Berson]

At 2/25/2010 02:21 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>At 2/25/2010 01:50 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>>At 10:34 AM -0800 2/25/10, Jeff Prucher wrote:
>>>"Snoopy and the Red Baron" was actually a stand-alone, illustrated
>>>story, not a collection of comic strips. It's still not anything I'd
>>>have considered a novel (any more than I'd consider "Make Way for
>>>Ducklings" a novel), though.
>>>
>>>Jeff Prucher
>>
>>Right, that's more of a novella.
>
>And it has a narrative.  Also, the fact that it has prize-winning
>illustrations doesn't make it a "graphic novel".

And, I discover, it has been deconstructed as "pre-feminist"
writing.  See its Wikipedia article, which -- praiseworthily -- is
thoroughly sourced, here and elsewhere.  If only more Wikipedia
articles were so!

Joel

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