Children’s Books – Page 13 – Pictures and Conversations

Lily and the Rockets by Rebecca Stevens

I understand that some women are playing in a football competition somewhere. Honestly, I do know what the competition is but I genuinely have no…

Yes, I know. There's been an almighty break in service from me. My life has taken some interesting turns in the last six months but…

My friends Anna and Suzanne, who lived across the road from me growing up, owned a copy of Elizabeth of the Garret Theatre and kindly…

The book I most associate Judith Kerr with is When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit and it’s another of the very few primary school class books…

Elsie Oxenham was one of the Big Three school story writers in the early and middle part of the twentieth century, the others being Dorita…

I discovered the Drina books by Jean Estoril serendipitously in Lossiemouth Library as a child. I read them in a random order as and when…

Back in the fifties and sixties career novels were all the rage, particularly those aimed at girls. I read them in the eighties and was…

In a sneaky move I’m including a second book by Dorita Fairlie Bruce who, you may remember from last week, is my favourite collectable author.…

Trudy Takes Charge is the first of ten books about the eponymous heroine. They were published over the course of twenty-one years, from the late…

The Distance Enchanted is the only book by Mary Gervaise I have read and I understand that it is atypical of her output. I think…