Critical Reception
The String in the Harp was named a Newbery Honor Book, and a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book in 1977. It received the International Reading Association Award and the Welsh Arts Council’s Tir na n’og for the best English-language children’s book about Wales. Called it "a most impressive first novel, Bond deftly blends fantasy and realism…", the University of Chicago Guide to Children's Literature also praised the character's growing maturity throughout the story. Her second book, The Voyage Begun, won the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award. A Place to Come Back To was named an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, and the Booklist Editor's Choice.
Read more about this topic: Nancy Bond
Famous quotes containing the words critical and/or reception:
“If our entertainment culture seems debased and unsatisfying, the hope is that our children will create something of greater worth. But it is as if we expect them to create out of nothing, like God, for the encouragement of creativity is in the popular mind, opposed to instruction. There is little sense that creativity must grow out of tradition, even when it is critical of that tradition, and children are scarcely being given the materials on which their creativity could work”
—C. John Sommerville (20th century)
“He’s leaving Germany by special request of the Nazi government. First he sends a dispatch about Danzig and how 10,000 German tourists are pouring into the city every day with butterfly nets in their hands and submachine guns in their knapsacks. They warn him right then. What does he do next? Goes to a reception at von Ribbentropf’s and keeps yelling for gefilte fish!”
—Billy Wilder (b. 1906)