Seaside Sing-Along
Nosy Crow is one of my favourite publishers. I love their production values as well as the books themselves. This lovely little board book makes…
Elizabeth Wein
I only meant, last night, to read the first few pages of The Enigma Game to get a feel for it last but I ended…
One Button Benny and the Gigantic Catastrophe by Alan Windram
Benny, a cute and friendly robot, has one button that is to be pressed only in the event of an emergency. We've met Benny before…
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Straddling the Border
About fifteen years ago I went to Italy with a couple of friends for a winter week. We stayed first in Verona, a beautiful city,…
Either Side of Berlin
I'm not quite sure where my desire to visit Berlin came from and I can't remember when the divided city was first something I was…
Absolutely Everything! by Christopher Lloyd
As the author himself admits, the title is perhaps a slight exaggeration but the book is a gallop through a history of the world. The…
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Guernsey Before the Chalet School
As a teenager I found Elinor Brent-Dyer's La Rochelle series quite difficult to get into. They seemed to me to be much more dense than…
A Town Like Alice
From the Ghan As I've written elsewhere, my early life was full of stories and memories of Australia. My parents' stories and memories. It was…
To the Festival
I have always known Edinburgh. I was born here and lived my first five years here. My Mum's parents lived in Musselburgh only a few…
Travel Back in Time
I did mention that Mabel Esther Allan would feature largely in this set of posts and here she is again using her own name. Blue…
