Christmas in Norway with Jostein Gaarder
It's Christmas Day and I am in Tromso in the north of Norway. Not coincidentally, I have just finished reading The Christmas Mystery by Jostein…
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Morris Gleitzman
A few weeks ago, I was at the Youth Libraries Group conference in Lancaster. It was a great conference, probably the best YLG conference I've…
The Dragonfly Pool by Eva Ibbotson
I've been reading books by Eva Ibbotson since I was about sixteen. Whilst browsing the adult fiction in Elgin Library (by this time I was…
New Old Books
I've just finished (in the last hour) reading Lady of Letters by Josephine Elder. It was excellent. Strictly speaking, it has no place in this…
The Blog’s Name
I expect that some of you recognise the allusion in the title of my blog. It's to Lewis Carroll, of course, in Alice's Adventures in…
How it all began
I've been reading and collecting children's books ever since I could read. My parents started me off before I can remember and I've just kept…
