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Posted on October 17, 2008February 27, 2021

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…

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Posted on October 4, 2008

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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