NPR's new kids' fiction column — by Juanita Giles, founder of the Virginia Children's Book Festival — kicks off with an explanation of why the... A few days ago my friend Julie confessed she had never ...
Beowulf can be read as a Christian allegory about good and evil. The chronicler-poets, who were Christian monks, portrayed Beowulf as the champion of goodness (a mighty, muscular Christ figure) while ...