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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
Most recent:
All the books I’ve never told you about
The Motherless Oven : Rob Davis
“Second to the left, and straight on ’til morning” : children’s literature and literary travels
Refuge : Anne Booth & Sam Usher
A Reckless Magick : Stephanie Burgis
Children’s Literature : A bit of a quick media round up
Shackleton’s Journey : William Grill
Remix : Non Pratt
A dog so small : Philippa Pearce
The Rest of Us Just Live Here : Patrick Ness
The Vasa Piglet : Björn Bergenholtz
Peace Comes to the Chalet School : Katherine Bruce
One thousand things : Anna Kövecses
Turn Left : on serendipity, shelving and selection of children’s literature
A United Chalet School : Elinor M. Brent-Dyer
New Beginnings at the Chalet School : Heather Paisley
The library of things (with thanks to Bachelard and Barthes)
On facilitating children’s literature
The Dragonfly Pool : Eva Ibbotson
Rainbow Beauty – Blueberry Wishes : Kelly McKain
The Mystery of the Clockwork Sparrow : Katherine Woodfine
The Syrian Refugee Crisis : a link roundup
Sisters : Raina Telgemeier
Let’s talk about sequels in children’s literature
Finding Alice at Harlow Carr
Green Grass of Wyoming : Mary O’Hara
First Pages : Eustacia goes to the Chalet School by Elinor M. Brent-Dyer
Don Quixote (a Spanish language primer) : Jennifer Adams & Alison Oliver
First Class Murder : Robin Stevens
Doodle Lit : Jennifer Adams and Alison Oliver
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland : Alison Jay
The Secrets of Sam and Sam : Susie Day
I just read my first ever Jane Austen – and this is what I learnt in the process
Max’s Wagon : Barbro Lindgren & Eva Eriksson
Dog Ears : Anne Booth
Fire Colour One : Jenny Valentine
The London Eye Mystery : Siobhan Dowd
Curiouser and Curiouser : Looking for Alice in Llandudno
The River Singers : Tom Moorhouse
Only Ever Yours – Louise O’Neill
Minnow on the Say : Philippa Pearce
Eloise in Moscow : Kay Thompson and Hilary Knight
“We don’t bury ourselves in books – books bury themselves in us” : finding ‘sequels’ for children’s literature classics
The blurred edge of literature (or: trees make books make trees)
Y : The Last Man : Brian K. Vaughan
The Chalet School at War : Elinor M. Brent-Dyer
This much I know : reflections on the PhD process thus far
Agatha Parrot and the Thirteenth Chicken : Kjartan Poskitt
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