Inspiring Young Readers
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An interview with Aaron Becker posted on 28 Jul 2024
An interview with Aaron Becker
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Bartie Bristle and Other Stories by the Teddy Bear Ladies posted on 26 Jul 2024
There are already so many delightful books featuring teddy bear characters that initially, I wondered about whether this one would offer anything different
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Terra Electrica: The Guardians of the North posted on 25 Jul 2024
12-year-old Mani sits huddled in a cave living off the last jar of pickled rat.
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Pavlo Gets the Grumps posted on 23 Jul 2024
In my experience, the emotions of young children veer from being ecstatically happy to being extremely grumpy
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An Interview with Michelle Maiden posted on 21 Jul 2024
An Interview with Michelle Maiden
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Ferris posted on 18 Jul 2024
At the beginning of 2024, I had the pleasure of reading and reviewing Di Camillo’s The Puppets of Spelhorst and I was impressed....
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Great Expectations posted on 16 Jul 2024
This rich, profoundly moving classic novel by Charles Dickens has been cited as a significant creative inspiration by so many authors.
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Grandpa Kuma posted on 14 Jul 2024
As an avid collector of books featuring grandparents, I was intrigued to receive this review copy about a little human girl and her Bear Grandpa
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Brown Bears posted on 11 Jul 2024
Big brown bears have become so much part of our storytelling traditions ....
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Back to the Future with Year Six posted on 09 Jul 2024
I used memories of myself as a ten year old lover of comics and annuals in 1965 as a way into the rather daunting theme of ‘Rebuilding Britain after WW2’