And the third Remixed Classics title, Travelers Along the Way by Aminah Mae Safi (Mar. Morrow, stars four Black girls coming of age during the Civil War, a nod to Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women. Lee, leans on the legend of Chinese pirate queen Ching Shih to reimagine Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island the second, So Many Beginnings by Bethany C. The series’ first book, A Clash of Steel by C.B. “There are so many so-called classics that have been held up for generations as this standard of excellence-but why?” asks Emily Settle, associate editor at Feiwel and Friends and editor of the imprint’s new Remixed Classics series. What is noteworthy about several recent and forthcoming releases this season is how their authors are intentionally subverting their source texts through the lenses of gender, race, and sexuality. From Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine to Pride by Ibi Zoboi, YA authors have mined, and continue to draw on, the Western canon for inspiration.
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