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…
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Anne on Film
Being in Canada has rekindled my desire to visit Prince Edward Island and re-awakened my passion for LM Montgomery's books. My long-suffering sister had to…
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…
A sense of community and place
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…
IFLA
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,…
Before Green Gables
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…
Between Two Seas
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…
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…
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