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Hello! You’ll find book reviews here of everyone from Angela Brazil to Tyra Banks, alongside deep dives on the girls’ boarding school story and the world of literature and libraries. I hope you enjoy what you find!
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An introduction to Children's Literature by Peter Hunt
The Chalet School and Rosalie and The Mystery at the Chalet School by Elinor M. Brent-Dyer
Modelland : Tyra Banks
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Looking for Enid : Duncan McLaren
The Explorer – Katherine Rundell
A Wrinkle In Time : Hope Larson, adap. Madeleine L’Engle
Stardust : Jeanne Willis & Briony May Smith
Diary of a Tokyo Teen : Christine Mari Inzer
So I found my first subject
Listening to the wind
Malibu Summer – Sweet Valley High: Francine Pascal
I’m going to be a Writer In Residence at the University of Cambridge
The Secret Of the Old Clock : Carolyn Keene
Pandora of Parrham Royal : Violet Needham
The legitimacy of critique : or, who am I?
Moon : Britta Teckentrup
Bad Book Article Bingo
How famous were the Famous Five?
When Dimple Met Rishi : Sandhya Menon
Listen to the Baby Animals : Marion Billet
‘Roads’ in children’s books
I Dare You : Reece Wykes
Learning how to be not afraid
Collecting Sticks : Joe Decie
Thank you Michael Bond
Losing my marbles (or the day I visited the Miffy Museum in Utrecht)
Piglettes : Clémentine Beauvais
Talking Empathy with Sita Brahmachari
My Name is Not Refugee : Kate Milner
The New School at Scawdale : Angela Brazil
Things A Bright Girl Can Do : Sally Nicholls
I Have No Secrets : Penny Joelson
Terms & Conditions: Life in Girls’ Boarding-Schools, 1939–1979 : Ysenda Maxtone Graham
“Not just a children’s book”
The Hate U Give : Angie Thomas
Shocks for the Chalet School : Elinor M. Brent-Dyer
Troublemakers : Catherine Barter
Courage Mountain, or the one where Heidi falls in love with Charlie Sheen
Pigeon P.I : Meg McLaren
The Calling – Endgame #1 : James Frey
The Yellow Room : Jess Vallance
The State of Grace : Rachael Lucas
Talking Mobile Fictions, Digital Storytelling and Hairy Maclary with Alastair Horne
Wuthering Heights : Emily Brontë
A Library of Lemons : Jo Cotterill
Prisoner of Night & Fog : Anne Blankman
The Girl’s Companion (ed.) Mary A. Carson
Wild Animals of the North : Dieter Braun
Beck : Mal Peet with Meg Rosoff
Writing outdoors
Picture books, art, and the appreciation of things
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