Marian Cockrell (1909–1999)
Author of Shadow Castle
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Works by Marian Cockrell
Something Between 14 copies
La espada llameante 1 copy
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- Birthdate
- 1909-03-15
- Date of death
- 1999-12-09
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Occupations
- novelist
screenwriter
short story writer - Relationships
- Cockrell, Amanda (daughter)
- Short biography
- Marian Cockrell was a novelist and screenwriter. In 1945, she published the now-classic children's fantasy book Shadow Castle, which was successful enough for a second printing in 1964 and several additional reprints in the early 1970s. She never published another children's book, but did get six novels for adults into print, along with short stories in magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post and Redbook. She also worked as a screenwriter for films and television programs, including Batman and Alfred Hitchcock Presents, as did her screenwriter/director husband Frank Cockrell. Her daughter Amanda Cockrell also became a novelist. In 2000, Shadow Castle was reprinted by the Authors Guild in conjunction with Amanda Cockrell through a program called backinprint.com. This version included six additional chapters that were cut by the original publishers.
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A very charming, not very important book, definitely for kids, written in what I think of as "Enid Blyton Non-Descript." It is a series of linked stories about a fairy family (and their romantic interactions with mortals) with an uninteresting framing device of a young girl being talked to. Short, brisk, easy to read, well-suited to bedtimes, nice (not "nice" as in "okay, decent" but "nice" as in kind-hearted), but nothing to take the literary world by storm or demand you rush out and buy it.
Undemanding fare perfect for when you're under the weather and want something to read during the soup course.… (more)
Undemanding fare perfect for when you're under the weather and want something to read during the soup course.… (more)
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- Rating
- 4.3
- Reviews
- 7
- ISBNs
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A thousand years and seven days.
A vegetarian dragon.
Robin, who is respectful of servants and expects his intended to be kind to them.
Meira, half mortal and half fairy, and Julian, who tells her she mustn't feel split between two halves, but feel like she's a third kind of person altogether.
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And of course the titular shadows.
If I were to knock off a star it would be for the insta-love... but then that's what fairy tales were. Oh, and an unfortunate btw reference to 'primitive Indians' that could be edited if a parent were to read this to the children (or could, of course, be discussed).
The library copy I read was sent by a city library in Hannibal MO and is a 45 cent paperback from 1963, and has been apparently been enjoyed several dozens of times by the patrons. :)… (more)