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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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Evie’s Ghost : Helen Peters
The Jamie Drake Equation : Christopher Edge
Orangeboy : Patrice Lawrence
Horrible Bear! : Ame Dyckman & Zachariah OHora
Fish Boy : Chloe Daykin
Girl Online – Going Solo : Zoe Sugg
Children’s literature and the great ‘oh’
Wing Jones : Katherine Webber
Margot and Me : Juno Dawson
Dragon’s Green : Scarlett Thomas
Talking politics
Inside, Outside, Upside, Down : Yasmeen Ismail
Judith Kerr’s Creatures : Judith Kerr
The Lost Staircase : Elinor M. Brent-Dyer
Thanks Obama
The Spectacular Sisterhood of Superwomen : Hope Nicholson
Girl In Dior : Anne Goetzinger
A Brush With The Past : Shirley Hughes
The Journey : Francesca Sanna
Thank you Richard Adams
Username Evie : Joe Sugg
2016 : the year in children’s literature
How to make the perfect film : take one small brown bear…
Transformers Robots In Disguise : Where Crown City Comes to Life
The Good Immigrant : (ed) Nikesh Shukla
“She has torn yet another dress”: Reflections on being a book collector
What is Red? : Suzanne Gottlieb & Vladimir Bobri
The Farmer and the Fairy and other stories : Elizabeth Clark
No Virgin : Anne Cassidy
On “beautiful girls”, bookclubs and Zoella
The politics of children’s literature; patterns, voice, ideology
The Loneliness of Distant Beings : Kate Ling
The Special Ones : Em Bailey
On crying in the dark and Catherine of Aragon’s bible
The Liszts : Kylo Maclear, Julia Sarda
The Butterfly Club : Jacqueline Wilson
5 Life Lessons Children’s Literature Taught Me (with a little help from Buffy)
Mistletoe and Murder : Robin Stevens
Binny Bewitched : Hilary McKay
Blue & Other Colours with Henri Matisse
This Is Not A Book : Jean Jullien
Girl Online : Zoe Sugg
Contributions towards a narrative of erasure
Shify McGify and Slippery Sam : The Spooky School by Tracey Corderoy and Steven Lenton
There May Be A Castle : Piers Torday
Looking at the Stars : Jo Cotterill
What’s A Girl Gotta Do? Holly Bourne
No Castanets at the Wells : Lorna Hill
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