Daisy May Johnson

Tag: thinking

Theory

1178.
Book Reviews

A year in books
Book Reviews

Rereading the Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins
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Parsing Piranesi: on books and reading and time
Book Reviews

An artist’s date
Book Reviews

On slow book collecting
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Lockdown Libraries
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Trials For The Chalet School, an audio review
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Cynthia Voigt, Americana and the texture of literary things
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Revisiting The Bunker Diary; or, the state of Children’s and Young Adult literature today
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A quickening of the heart : life as a book collector
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The circularity of debate
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Conversations with dead authors : Enid Blyton
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Learning how to be not afraid
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Writing outdoors
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Picture books, art, and the appreciation of things
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“She has torn yet another dress”: Reflections on being a book collector
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The politics of children’s literature; patterns, voice, ideology
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Contributions towards a narrative of erasure
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Who are you if you are afraid? : On mediating complex content in children’s literature
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How many you’s are you a you to?
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Don’t be afraid of academic children’s literature
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On glass ceilings and echo chambers
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A spectrum of choice : Girlhood and Enid Blyton
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The urge for the classic : on children’s books and those eternal surveys
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A brief departure from the norm
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Good books, bad books : discussing value in children’s literature
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Spaces; edges; the parts in between
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The drum
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“Mr and Mrs Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive”
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Dirty Dancing; sexuality and young adult literature
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On Turning Left
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A wild beginning
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All the books I’ve never told you about
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Turn Left : on serendipity, shelving and selection of children’s literature
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The library of things (with thanks to Bachelard and Barthes)
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On facilitating children’s literature
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Let’s talk about sequels in children’s literature
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I just read my first ever Jane Austen – and this is what I learnt in the process
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“We don’t bury ourselves in books – books bury themselves in us” : finding ‘sequels’ for children’s literature classics
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The blurred edge of literature (or: trees make books make trees)
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Series fiction, Glee, and the Babysitters Club : a few thoughts
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Heroism, heroes and heroines in children’s literature (or, the one where I talk about Edmund but not Peter)
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New Year’s Read : Five Reading Resolutions for 2015
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2014 : The year of the paradigm shift?
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“Only the Other could write my love story, my novel”
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A question of fit
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Let’s talk a little bit about adults and children’s literature
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A few thoughts on reading out loud
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Awards and children’s literature
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“Language is a skin : I rub my language against the other”
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Tribes, reading and the nature of identity (and a lot about horses)
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The Wilderness of Children’s Literature
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You shouldn’t read this post
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I swim to literature and grab it, finger-tight and breathless
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The physicality of reading
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“Nobody needs me” – “I do.” A few thoughts on space, relationships and children’s literature
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Voice in children’s literature : Power, space and place
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Words, wording, writing, making : thoughts on authoring
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Structurally speaking
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“Look back, but don’t stare” : what I want from the world of children’s literature in 2014
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Love in children’s literature : the pain, the glory, the wonder
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The marginalisation of children’s literature
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David Tennant’s Eyes
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“The more we invest in children, the more we destroy their future”
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Creation : a tribute
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So here’s the part where you make a choice
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Learn to question, learn to love
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Superman, heroes and heroines (or: how literature lets us make heroes)
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I didn’t finish a book today
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The Complications Of Being Merely Whelmed
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Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
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The Mania
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Discovering your story
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The fatness of words
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The reflective post
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Fear
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In pursuit of perfection