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Winner of South Africa Literary Traveler’s Companion finds inspiration in children’s literature

Posted November 20th, 2009 by Antonia Malchik

Soul Travelers 3, a family of 3 from Santa Cruz, California, now blogging from their travels around the world, have won a free copy of the South Africa Literary Traveler’s Companion with their comments on how children’s literature have inspired many of their travels.

There were several interesting thoughts about the literary inspiration behind travel urges. Caitlin Fitzimmons, who writes the fantastic Roaming Tales blog, mentioned The Wind in the Willows and Oxfordshire, and her desire to visit Prince Edward Island in Canada due to the lovely L.M. Montgomery Anne of Green Gables books (which were what got me to visit the island, too — twice!).

Vera Marie Badertscher said that a combined love of literature and travel was behind her blog A Traveler’s Library (where she will be writing more about the same topic), and the mind behind The World in a Satin Bag touched on my own interests with a love of science fiction and fantasy novels building a craving to see real castles.

I loved how Soul Travelers 3 combine great stories and travel to bring the world to their 5-year-old to the world and the world to her:

“We don’t have that much space, so we often end up reading her books too. Her Odyssey books really made our travels to troy and all through Greece, so much richer as we all got into Homer online as well.Perhaps we never would have visited Troy or Mycenae without that influence.

Recently we went to Krakow, and the award winning Trumpeter of Krakow set us all up nicely for that visit. We all loved Bram Stoker’s Dracula too that was meant to give a kid a bit of excitement for Romania, but I broke my arm in Melk before we got there this year.”

Thanks to everyone who participated, and keep reading and traveling!

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4 Responses to “Winner of South Africa Literary Traveler’s Companion finds inspiration in children’s literature”

  1. soultravelers3 Says:
    November 28th, 2009 at 2:17 pm

    Wow! Thank you so much! South Africa is on our list for our world tour & I love books like that!! We are in luck too as we have just moved into a rental in Spain for the winter, so we will actually have a real address for a bit! ;)

  2. Antonia Malchik Says:
    November 28th, 2009 at 4:25 pm

    My pleasure! The publisher is excited for you too — thinks your journey is fantastic and says “good for them.”

    If you didn’t get my message in your inbox, email me direct:
    amalchik@gmail.com
    with your address and Whereabouts Press will send you a copy.

    Congratulations, happy travels, and thanks for sharing your story!
    Cheers,
    Antonia

  3. Caitlin Says:
    November 28th, 2009 at 6:56 pm

    I think that might be Krakow rather than Karkow.

    Anne of Green Gables is wonderful but my favourites of the L.M. Montgomery canon are the Emily of New Moon books and The Story Girl.

  4. Antonia Malchik Says:
    November 28th, 2009 at 8:44 pm

    Emily of New Moon books are my favorites, too, with the exception of The Blue Castle, which is a beauty unto itself. Amazing how prolific she was.

    And thanks for the correction! Yes, Krakow not Karkow.

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