The Prince who Walked with Lions
This is Elizabeth Laird's latest novel and it's excellent as you would expect. The story is based on actual events in Abyssinia and England and…
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Too Busy Reading to Blog!
It's true! I seem to have been reading non-stop all summer: for The Scotsman, for the Edinburgh International Book Festival and for our own book…
Eva Ibbotson’s Final Fling
The delightful people at Scholastic sent me a proof of the late Eva Ibbotson's final book. I almost couldn't bear to read it, knowing that it…
Emily Gravett
What a brilliant artist Emily Gravett is and what wonderful picture books she produces. Her first book was Wolves. Set in a library, it was,…
Eva Ibbotson
I was very sad to hear, belatedly, of the death of Eva Ibbotson. The world of fiction for children, teenagers and adults is a poorer…
Back Beside the Sea
As I write, it is a beautiful autumn day: the sun is shining, the sky is blue and there is scarcely a breeze. The view…
Julia Golding
I’ve just discovered the joy of Julia Golding’s books. I knew the Cat books but I’d never read anything else by her until last month. …
A Rose for the Anzac Boys by Jackie French
It'll not come as any surprise that I haunted bookshops when I was in Australia. As well as wanting to buy old children's books from…
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Now by Morris Gleitzman
Last night I read Now by Morris Gleitzman. It's the third part of the trilogy whose earlier books are Once and Then. It brings the…
Book Buying on the Other Side of the World
I'm in Australia at the moment, visiting relatives. Just now, I'm in Melbourne with cousins who know some great secondhand bookshops. Without trying very hard…
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