Teenage Books – Page 13 – Pictures and Conversations

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…

It all starts when Alasdair is on the train from Glasgow to Mallaig en route for Skye, the birthplace of the father he scarcely remembers.…

It was The Edge of the Cloud by KM Peyton that first made me aware of the Carnegie Medal. I borrowed it from Lossiemouth Library…

Of all the children’s authors I collect, Dorita Fairlie Bruce is my favourite. In a large part I think it’s because she’s a Scot and…

It was always going to be incredibly difficult to choose only one book by Elinor Brent-Dyer for this list. I almost chose The Chalet School…

As it happens, the first two books in my Advent selection are the books I would describe as my favourite children’s books, one of my…

I was fifty this year and, in planning for my extravaganza of a party, I compiled lots of lists, many of them of fifty things.…

I may have found my book of the year. I think the mark of a great piece of fiction is not that it stays with…

Flambards by KM Peyton was published just before I was born. I discovered it twelve years later when it was still the first in a…

I'm already an admirer of Hilary McKay's writing so it wasn't a stretch for the publisher (Macmillan) to get me to read a proof of The…