My Lockdown Books: Ten
I adore the Ottoline books, both as items and for the content. This one is my favourite, though, because it has Norway and the sea…
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My Lockdown Books: Seven
The first books I seriously set about collecting were the Chalet School books by Elinor M Brent-Dyer. I acquired the first one (actually the seventeenth…
Kate Greenaway Medal
Alongside the Carnegie Medal sits its sister prize the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal. The nominations list for it has also been published today. The nominating…
8th December
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…
Wide Eyed Books
Wide Eyed Editions is aptly named. Its books are truly full of wonder. Even when they deal with subjects I'm not interested in, I love…
Suffragette: the battle for equality by David Roberts
I'm fascinated by the early part of the twentieth century; it was such a turbulent time in British history. The First World War aside, one…
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The Hippo at the End of the Hall by Helen Cooper
Come now or come never! That’s the message on the mysterious invitation Ben receives. Accepting it leads him to the Gee Museum and a meeting…
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There’s a Monster in Your Book by Tom Fletcher and Greg Abbott
There is a very cute monster in this brand new picture book by Tom Fletcher and Greg Abbott from Puffin. And it turns out he’s…
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The Hippo at the End of the Hall by Helen Cooper
“Come now or come never!” it says on the back of the invitation to the Gee Museum. The invitation lands on Ben’s doorstep along with…
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Stylish Fairy Tales
Although I know more now than I did fifteen years ago, I still don’t consider myself to be any kind of expert on illustrated fiction.…
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