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My name is Daisy May Johnson and I’m an author and researcher of children’s literature. Welcome to my world of books, buns, and cake-obsessed nuns…!

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• Cuckoo in the Nest by Michelle Magorian
  Cuckoo in the Nest by Michelle Magorian My rating: 4 of 5 stars I had mixed memories of this. I had remembered it as being a bit stiff to read and something that I was not even sure I had finished. Yet Michelle Magorian is… Read more: Cuckoo in the Nest by Michelle Magorian
• An Occasional Podcast About Children’s Literature – Episode Two
  Hello everyone. One of the things I’ve been working on this year is a very occasional podcast about children’s literature. This is, as the title may suggest, a terribly sporadic deep dive into the world of children’s literature and it now has two episodes available.… Read more: An Occasional Podcast About Children’s Literature – Episode Two
• Meet Mary Kate by Helen Morgan and illustrated by Shirley Hughes
  Meet Mary Kate by Helen Morgan My rating: 4 of 5 stars There is gentle and then there is this, the gentlest of things which takes your gentle into an infinite black hole (don’t question my science here, I’m making a point) of gentle until… Read more: Meet Mary Kate by Helen Morgan and illustrated by Shirley Hughes
• Quartet by Leah Broad
  Quartet: How Four Women Changed the Musical World by Leah Broad My rating: 4 of 5 stars “But this book does not ‘rewrite’ history. It relates a history that has always been there, waiting to be told.” That was the moment when I knew that… Read more: Quartet by Leah Broad
• Elizabeth Taylor by Donald Spoto
  Elizabeth Taylor by Donald Spoto My rating: 3 of 5 stars I have been having feelings, I think, about how women are written about in biography and in particular, about female movie stars. There is something that I’m yet to quite tease out about how… Read more: Elizabeth Taylor by Donald Spoto