Thursday, May 17, 2007

Sadness: Lloyd Alexander


Members of Child_Lit are reporting that Lloyd Alexander died this morning.

Update:
Horn Book notice
(via Fuse #8)
Tribute on NPR by Jon Scieszka
NYTimes Obit


His books are timeless and will be enchanting new readers and old ones forever.

3 comments:

Sherry said...

Oh, dear, my third favorite fantasy author after TOlkien and Lewis, and that's high praise from me.

tanita✿davis said...

I am one of the new readers, enchanted, and I haven't yet finished a read-through of all of his books. How sad that there will be no more.

Saints and Spinners said...

I am going to miss the old man.