When authors refer to other great works, people, and events, it’s usually not accidental. Put on your super-sleuth hat and figure out why.
Literary and Philosophical References
- Richard Adams, Watership Down (36.Epigraph; 51.Epigraph)
- Hans Christian Andersen, The Collected Fairy Tales (42.25, 42.40, 45.3, 45.22,46.3)
- J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan (14.1, 20.62, 21.7, 29.Epigraph, 29.21, 38.Epigraph, 38.14, 38.19, 38.28, 39.9, 39.11, 52.Epigraph, 52.7-18, 56.21, 58.7)
- Beowulf (16.7)
- William Blake, Vala, or the Four Zoas (56.Epigraph)
- L. M. Boston, The Children of Green Knowe (1.Epigraph)
- Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 (17.Epigraph, 35.Epigraph)
- Richard de Bury, The Philobiblon (57.Epigraph)
- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland (5.24, 12.7, 40.24, 42.Epigraph)
- Carlo Collodi, Pinocchio (2.23)
- Roberto Cotroneo, When a Child on a Summer Morning (23.Epigraph)
- Roald Dahl, The BFG (40.Epigraph)
- Roald Dahl, The Witches (2.23; 8.Epigraph)
- Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (33.Epigraph)
- Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist (50.Epigraph)
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (9.45)
- Michael Ende, Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver (43.Epigraph)
- Michael Ende, The Neverending Story (58.Epigraph)
- William Goldman, The Princess Bride (10.Epigraph, 16.Epigraph, 26.Epigraph, 30.Epigraph, 37.Epigraph)
- Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows (3.Epigraph, 11.Epigraph)
- Homer, The Odyssey (2.23, 38.14)
- Eva Ibbotson, The Secret of Platform 13 (32.Epigraph)
- Rudyard Kipling, "The Cat That Walked By Himself" (43.32-33)
- Rudyard Kipling, "The Elephant's Child" (27.Epigraph)
- Rudyard Kipling, "How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin" (5.67)
- Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book (19.Epigraph, 20.72, 54.Epigraph)
- Michael de Larrabeiti, The Borribles Go for Broke (15.Epigraph, 20.Epigraph, 44.Epigraph)
- C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (14.Epigraph)
- Hugh Lofting, Dr. Dolittle (16.67, 42.21)
- The Mabinogion (46.Epigraph, 46.24-30)
- Thomas Malory, Le Morte D'Arthur (16.7)
- A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh (16.68)
- Otfried Preussler, The Satanic Mill (39.Epigraph)
- Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are (16.68, 40.24, 59.Epigraph)
- William Shakespeare, The Tempest (28.Epigraph)
- Shel Silverstein, Where the Sidewalk Ends (Epigraph, 23.8, 23.90)
- Isaac Bashevis Singer, Naftali the Storyteller and His Horse, Sus (2.Epigraph, 13.Epigraph)
- Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped (45.Epigraph)
Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1.14, 53.Epigraph) - Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island (14.1, 16.68, 17.91, 17.105, 18.Epigraph, 18.13-14, 18.22, 18.61, 21.Epigraph)
- The Thousand and One Nights (17.91, 18.33, 18.35, 41.Epigraph, 42.16, 55.Epigraph)
- J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit (47.Epigraph)
- J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings (12.Epigraph, 12.37, 42.62, 49.Epigraph)
- Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (21.8, 24.Epigraph, 25.Epigraph, 29.21)
- Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer (5.67, 14.1, 16.66, 22.Epigraph, 29.21)
- E.B. White, Charlotte's Web (16.53)
- T. H. White, The Book of Merlyn (48.Epigraph)
- T.H. White, The Once and Future King (16.54)
- T. H. White, The Sword in the Stone (31.Epigraph, 34.Epigraph)
- Oscar Wilde, The Selfish Giant (4.1, 4.6, 4.7)
Historical References
- Alexander the Great (38.14)
- The Black Death (3.40)
- Christopher Columbus (5.8)
- Illuminated manuscripts (4.55-57)
- Marco Polo (5.8)
- The Trojan War (5.8)