Reading – Page 6 – Pictures and Conversations

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…