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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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Popular Posts:
First Pages : Eustacia goes to the Chalet School by Elinor M. Brent-Dyer
An introduction to Children's Literature by Peter Hunt
Enid (2009), a film review
Most recent:
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
First Pages : ‘The School at the Chalet’ by Elinor M. Brent-Dyer
One : Sarah Crossan
The Last Wild : Piers Torday
“It is a truth universally acknowledged that every rainy day requires a very good book”
The Head Girl of the Chalet School : Elinor M. Brent-Dyer
A lyrical emptiness
She Shall Have Music : Kitty Barne
From Black Beauty to the Amber Spyglass
Too Close to Home : Aoife Walsh
A brief bit of housekeeping
Lyra’s Oxford : Philip Pullman
Neill Cameron talking comics – #fcbg15 recap
This is some of what caught my eye @ #fcbg15
The Borrowers : Mary Norton
Series fiction, Glee, and the Babysitters Club : a few thoughts
Olivia and the Fairy Princesses : Ian Falconer
Remember that list I keep of children’s books set in the UK?
Starring Kitty : Keris Stainton
Black Dove, White Raven : Elizabeth Wein
Enid Blyton’s Nature Lover’s Book : Enid Blyton
#empoweredcrying
Phoenix : SF Said & Dave McKean
Housekeeping
The Susannah Adventure : Elinor M. Brent-Dyer
An A-Z of Picture Book Terminology
Politics / Politicians in Young Adult Literature
The Game of Sculpture : Hervé Tullet
Five Children on the Western Front : Kate Saunders
The Whitby Witches : Robin Jarvis
A Garden for Torak (Wolf Brother : Michelle Paver)
Mapping Room 13 by Robert Swindells
Where was Wonderland? A Traveller’s Guide to the Setting of Classic Children’s Books : Frank Barrett
Arsenic for Tea : Robin Stevens
Heroism, heroes and heroines in children’s literature (or, the one where I talk about Edmund but not Peter)
Emma Hearts LA : Keris Stainton
Briony Hatch : Penelope & Ginny Skinner
Fair Girls and Grey Horses – Josephine, Diana and Christine Pullein-Thompson
New Year’s Read : Five Reading Resolutions for 2015
Nancy Drew – Ghost In The Machinery : Stefan Petrucha & Sho Murase
Merry Christmas!
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