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The dark is rising sequence books5/19/2023 ![]() ![]() The sequence captured the imagination of a generation of children, now aged fifty-something, but the books were by no means universally known: barely any of my friends knew about them. In the 1960s and 1970s when the five individual novels first came out – my editions are the slim 1980s Puffins with tight leading and a small font size, about a quarter the thickness of today’s fashion for fat paperbacks – they were simply children’s fiction, marketed alongside Nina Bawden, Roald Dahl and Stig of the Dump. If published today they would be classified as children’s / YA fantasy fiction. ![]() ![]() About 18 months ago I wrote about Susan Cooper’s five-novel sequence called The Dark Is Rising. ![]()
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