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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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First Pages : Eustacia goes to the Chalet School by Elinor M. Brent-Dyer
An introduction to Children's Literature by Peter Hunt
Beau Geste by Percival Christopher Wren
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The Dark Portal : Robin Jarvis
Oh, why did I go to Whitby?
Tribes, reading and the nature of identity (and a lot about horses)
Nuts in Space : Elys Dolan
Three Indian Goddesses : Jamila Gavin
The Bunker Diary : Kevin Brooks
Eleanor & Park : Rainbow Rowell
Chicken Clicking : Jeanne Willis & Tony Ross
#kidbkgrp recap – Re/reading classic children’s literature
Boy In The Tower : Polly Ho-Yen
The Wilderness of Children’s Literature
Liar and Spy : Rebecca Stead
The Secret Garden : Frances Hodgson Burnett
Binny for Short : Hilary McKay
Olivia’s First Term : Lyn Gardner
Landline : Rainbow Rowell
Girl With a White Dog : Anne Booth
Hi So Much : Laura Dockrill
You shouldn’t read this post
Pea’s Book of Holidays : Susie Day
Only Remembered : Michael Morpurgo
#kidbkgrp recap: Diversity and Children’s Literature
The Case of the Exploding Loo : Rachel Hamilton
Remembrance : Theresa Breslin
See how they grow: Foal
The Paper Dolls – Julia Donaldson and Rebecca Cobb
Claude on the Slopes : Alex T Smith
I swim to literature and grab it, finger-tight and breathless
Missing Mummy – Rebecca Cobb
#kidbkgrp 2014 schedule
Ash Road : Ivan Southall
#kidbkgrp is back!
Viking Boy : Tony Bradman
Mr Drew’s School For Boys
Do you wanna build a library?
Archie’s War – Marcia Williams
The physicality of reading
Stories of World War One : (ed) Tony Bradman
Happy Birthday Elinor M. Brent-Dyer
Trouble : Non Pratt
Follow the people who say “Morpurgo” – a day out @oxfordlitfest
Dancer’s Luck : Lorna Hill
Murder Most Unladylike : Robin Stevens
“Nobody needs me” – “I do.” A few thoughts on space, relationships and children’s literature
Voice in children’s literature : Power, space and place
Cowgirl : GR Gemin
The Everest Files : Matt Dickinson
Interplay in ‘the yes’ by Sarah Bee and Satoshi Kitamura
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