Lynne Reid Banks, 1929-2024 - Washington Examiner

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Lynne Reid Banks, 1929-2024 - Washington Examiner

For those of us who grew up in the 1980s and ’90s, Lynne Reid Banks’s Indian in the Cupboard novels held something of the same appeal as Steven Spielberg’s E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial or The Goonies. Each centers on smart, sensitive children who happen upon something secret and unshareable with the grown-up world: a space creature in E.T., a treasure map in The Goonies, and a figurine-turned-real-man in Banks’s books. Banks, who died on April 4 a…