My Lockdown Books: Sixty Two
When the bank his parents own crashes, Oliver’s life starts to spin out of control. Precipitated into responsibility for a grumpy girl, her unpredictable mother,…
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My Lockdown Books: Sixty One
I know I'm not alone in having had horrible experiences of being compelled to read books in primary school that I hated. But, hopefully, I'm…
My Lockdown Books: Sixty
Two reviews for one today. I've added these books to my picture book collection but they're not simple and they can be enjoyed by fluent…
My Lockdown Books: Fifty Nine
In 1914, a year of significant anniversaries, Flying Eye Books chose to mark a less heralded one in Shackleton’s Journey. This beautiful book, written and…
My Lockdown Books: Fifty Seven
I met Cathy Cassidy many years ago and have worked with her at a number of book festivals since then. She's one of my favourite…
My Lockdown Books: Fifty Six
Yes, I know that I’ve already written about one of LM Montgomery’s books but it’s my birthday so I’m indulging myself. No-one is surprised that…
My Lockdown Books: Fifty Five
I don't know when I first read A Background for Beryl by Sylvia Little. It's another of my Mum's prize books so it would have…
My Lockdown Books: Fifty Four
I have five books by Gordon Cooper. As far as I have been able to find out that's all he wrote. A Time in a…
My Lockdown Books: Fifty Two
I met Mollie Hunter a couple of times: once at a book festival I organised to mark the Carnegie Medal, held at the original Carnegie…
My Lockdown Books: Fifty One
David Almond is a deceptively brilliant writer. His syntax is simple, although his vocabulary is not, but sentence upon sentence it builds up to an…
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