Little Daylight

In his essay "The Fantastic Imagination", George MacDonald insisted, "I do not write for children, but for the childlike, whether of five, or fifty, or seventy-five."

Some stories contrast the experience of children with the world of adults, like Diamond in At the Back of the North Wind. Other times, his characters are on the borderland of childhood and adulthood, that magical coming-of-age time when anything seems possible.

In LITTLE DAYLIGHT, a teenage prince and princess are learning about...