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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…

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…

Some time ago I wrote an article for Folly, a journal written and read by children's literature enthusiasts. It was one of a series of…

Yesterday I met Anne Shirley. Well, not really, of course, but someone from Library and Archives Canada dressed up as her. This year, of course,…

Recently I met a friend for coffee and almost before I sat down we had embarked on a discussion about LM Montgomery's Anne books. We…

The last book I read was Between Two Seas by Marie-Louise Jensen. The author is half English/half Danish and the book is set in the…

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…