Comfort Reading: The Big Three
Ages ago I wrote about Anne of the Island and said that it was one of my desert island books. I chose the books in…
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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…
Voices by Sue Mayfield
I've been re-reading books recently. I shouldn't be as I have piles of proof copies and new books to get through but some days only…
The Sandfather by Linda Newbery
I've never met a book by Linda Newbery that I didn't like and I see no sign of that changing. I've just read a proof…
Posy by Catherine Rayner and Linda Newbery
I almost never fall in love with picture books. There have been many that I've enjoyed and appreciated and thought excellent but few that I've…
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Exposure by Mal Peet
The lovely people at Walker Books have just sent me a copy of Mal Peet's new book, Exposure. I'm a huge fan of his books…
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…
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…
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