Talk:Year of the Griffin

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Library of Congress data
The US Library of Congress Catalog LCC entry is one source of our infobox data. These data are substantial, maybe useful, and not in the article as i write. (quote) Description: 	 267 p. ; 24 cm.

Summary: 	 When Elda, the griffin daughter of the great Wizard Derk, arrives for schooling at the Wizards’ University, she encounters new friends, pirates, assassins, worry, sabotage, bloodshed, and magic misused.

Notes: 	Sequel to: Dark Lord of Derkholm.

Subjects: 	Griffins --Fiction. Magic --Fiction. Schools --Fiction. Fantasy.

(end quote). LC also provides this Publisher description. --P64 (talk) 18:24, 4 May 2012 (UTC)

Satire? school story?
Yesterday I reassigned the first book Dark Lord of Derkholm from genre High fantasy to "Fantasy, parody". That is clear from its article and The Tough Guide to Fantasyland jointly. See also Talk: Dark Lord of Derkholm.

This article doesn't make clear. Is Year of the Griffin a parody of high fantasy literature or of school stories? Is it a satire of education or of boarding school in particular?

Regardless what genre(s) is listed in the infobox, the elements of parody or satire should be developed further. (That would be appropriate in any article about a book, but The Tough Guide makes it more important here.) --P64 (talk) 17:54, 4 May 2012 (UTC)