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Hammond's Hard Lines
- ... that depending on the edition, a fairy or a gremlin grants wishes to the titular character of Hammond's Hard Lines?
- Source: "Books of the Day: 'Hammond's Hard Lines'". The Liverpool Mercury. 1901-12-12. p. 10. Retrieved 2024-08-20 – via Newspapers.com. / "Review of Books for Backward Readers". The Slow Learning Child. 3 (3): 173–183. 1957. doi:10.1080/0156655570030308. ISSN 1034-912X. Retrieved 2024-08-20 – via Taylor & Francis Online.
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Takara's Treasure
- Comment: A.K.A. C for Charlie (as a handful online have nicknamed the 1957 version for almost a decade and a half now).
Filler project in light of higher-priority AFC tasks; inspired by this August 2024 filing at the Literature StackExchange, which came up on the parent service's "Hot Network Questons" feed one day during my perusal at GIS.SE (I'm currently engaged in a comeback geofictional project). First of two DYK nominations from yours truly today; stay tuned in a few hours for the other one.
Created by Slgrandson (talk).
Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 9 past nominations.
Slgrandson (How's my egg-throwing coleslaw?) 20:21, 20 August 2024 (UTC).
Note that the hook as currently written might possibly not meet WP:DYKFICTION; as such, it will either need to be revised with additional real-world context, or a new hook needs to be proposed. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 23:16, 29 August 2024 (UTC)
- @Slgrandson: Please address the above. Z1720 (talk) 23:42, 8 September 2024 (UTC)
- ALT1: ... that Hammond's Hard Lines was one of the few school stories to feature fantasy in its plot? Source: Wotton, Joy; Auchmuty, Rosemary, eds. (2000). "Skelton Kuppord (Pseudonym for Sir John Adams)". The Encyclopaedia of School Stories. Ashgate. p. 211. ISBN 0-7546-0083-1. Retrieved 2024-09-08 – via Google Books Snippets.
- ALT1 as currently written is inaccurate: there are countless examples from anime and manga alone, let alone other genres of literature. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 00:55, 10 September 2024 (UTC)
- @Slgrandson: Please address the above. Z1720 (talk) 23:42, 8 September 2024 (UTC)