Researchers may have neglected middle childhood until recently, but authors and screenwriters have long revisited the grade school years in their work.

Other authors have revisited the early periods of the religion in the Middle East or addressed historical periods in other places.

The author revisited New York to talk with old friends and reconstruct his formative experiences as a journalist and social activist.

The author revisits her old Kentucky home, giving readers a glimpse at the inspiration for much of her fiction, and finds the sun still shines bright.

The author revisited her homeland at intervals between 1982 and 1992.

Its largely negative view was reversed when the author revisited the same themes in his utopian final novel, Island (1962).

(Ages 3 to 6) THERE are certain themes in picture books that authors revisit time and again.

Perhaps this is because reticence can only go so far, especially when the author is revisiting themes he has already explored at length.

Here, the author revisits the world of his first novel through a little girl called Mina, neighbour and sidekick to Skellig's protagonist, Michael.

The author or a fictional surrogate visits or revisits a place and unveils the full richness of its people.