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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:
Looking After William : Eve Coy
Home Fetters : Raymond Jacberns
The NCRCL Open Day 2018
Caldicott Place : Noel Streatfeild
Translating classic children’s books into feminist blank verse
The Positively Last Performance : Geraldine McCaughrean
Running On Empty : SE Durrant
My experience of Choose Your Own Story apps
The allure of forgotten notebooks
Ella On The Outside : Cath Howe
Max the Detective Cat – The Disappearing Diva : Sarah Todd Taylor
“Help, my child isn’t reading!”
The Weaver : Qian Shi
Janie Steps In : Elinor M. Brent-Dyer
Jack Fortune and the Search for the Hidden Valley : Sue Purkiss
The circularity of debate
The Stone Bird : Jenny McCartney, illus. Patrick Benson
A Spoonful of Murder : Robin Stevens
The Belles : Dhonielle Clayton
Alpha : Bessora, Barroux, (Sarah Ardizzone (trans.))
An interview with Bessora and Sarah Ardizzone : two-thirds of the creative team behind Alpha
Five Fall Into Adventure : Enid Blyton
The Arrival : Shaun Tan
Conversations with Dead Authors: Angela Brazil
A Change Is Gonna Come
Seven Scamps : Elinor M. Brent-Dyer
Merry Christmas
Things I would like to see less (and more) of in the world of children’s books in 2018
Fanfic : M*A*S*H / Chalet School
The Book of Dust – La Belle Sauvage : Philip Pullman
Egyptomania : Emma Giuliani and Carole Saturno
Freshers : Tom Ellen and Lucy Ivison
The Wrong Chalet School : Elinor M. Brent-Dyer
Joey Goes To The Oberland : Elinor M. Brent-Dyer
The Chalet School and Barbara : Elinor M. Brent-Dyer
My Little Pony : The Ultimate Guide
The Murderer’s Ape : Jakob Wegelius
Poo Bum : Stephanie Blake
Why We Took The Car : Wolfgang Herrndorf
Visual literacies, comics and Mark Twain : An Interview with Dylan Calder of Pop Up Projects
An A to Z of Monsters and Magical Beings : Rob Hodgson and Aidan Onn
Tinyletter
Conversations with dead authors : Enid Blyton
The Little Library Cookbook : Kate Young
Ottoline Goes To School : Chris Riddell
The Princess and The Suffragette : Holly Webb
Here I Stand : Amnesty International UK
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