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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
Modelland : Tyra Banks
Boy In The Tower : Polly Ho-Yen
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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)
The Attic Term : Antonia Forest
Digital children’s literature – values and validation
Set in Stone : Linda Newbery
My Totally Secret Diary – On Stage in America : Dee Shulman
A Little Love Song : Michelle Magorian
Ibarajo Road : Harry Allen
Dads, Geeks and Blue Haired Freaks : Ellie Phillips
Meg Cabot’s ‘Size 12 and Ready to Rock’ – The best Book Trailer I’ve seen this year
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