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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
Enid (2009), a film review
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Why read? The School Story
Neighbourhood Witch : Mary Hooper
The Chalet School and Sickness
Fashionistas – Laura : Sarra Manning
Eustacia Goes to the Chalet School : Elinor M. Brent-Dyer
The Paladin Prophecy : Mark Frost
Location, location, location
A Dancer’s Dream
Stitch Head : Guy Bass
How not to write about children’s literature
Mortal Chaos : Matt Dickinson
My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece : Annabel Pitcher
Getting unstuck
hello baby : a high contrast mirror book
The Girl Savage : Katherine Rundell
The Unforgotten Coat : Frank Cottrell Boyce
An esoteric and distinctly biased list of 50 children’s books you probably really should read (part five)
An esoteric and distinctly biased list of 50 children’s books you probably really should read (part four)
Ghost Knight : Cornelia Funke
An esoteric and distinctly biased list of 50 children’s books you probably really should read (part three)
An esoteric and distinctly biased list of 50 children’s books you probably really should read (part two)
An esoteric and distinctly biased list of 50 children’s books you probably really should read (part one)
Did I hear you write? : Michael Rosen
A book & movie review : The Black Stallion
Children’s literature, food, and frenchwomen
A Miffy Birthday Cake
Beowulf : Gareth Hinds
There’s a place for us, somewhere a place for us
A Gruffalo Birthday Cake
A Jacqueline Wilson Birthday Cake
Unrest : Michelle Harrison
Secrets, Lies and Locker 62 : Lil Chase
Birthdays!
Les Bandes Dessinées
Charm School – Advice For The Thoroughly Modern Girl
Guardian Angel : Robert Muchamore
The nature of genius in GirlsOwn Literature
Pride of Baghdad : Brian K Vaughan & Niko Henrichon
New Beginnings at the *insert name here* School
Insatiable : Meg Cabot
Just keep swimming
Another Life : Keren David
Summertime of the Dead : Gregory Hughes
Angel & Faith – Live Through This : Christos N. Gage, Rebekah Isaacs
Pea’s Book of Best Friends : Susie Day
On reading
The Tomorrow Series : John Marsden
The Beaver Pond : Alvin Tresselt (illustrations: Roger Duvoisin)
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