Inspiring Young Readers
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The Journey posted on 12 Jan 2017
It is always pleasing to find another book for children about the subject of being a refugee ...
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Flour Babies posted on 09 Jan 2017
I have read and enjoyed several of this author’s more recent YA novels, many of which are quite dark ...
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Ezra Jack Keats posted on 08 Jan 2017
Although Ezra Jack Keats is now acknowledged as one of the most important. children’s book illustrators of the twentieth century,...
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Matilda posted on 03 Jan 2017
Review by Miranda Taylor of “Matilda” by Roald Dahl
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Letterpress at Lollipops Play Café, Bournemouth posted on 03 Jan 2017
My two year old granddaughter had her birthday party at this rather lovely café in Westbourne, Bournemouth
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Posters posted on 03 Jan 2017
Maurice Sendak is a legend in the world of children’s book illustration.
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Forget me not: dementia portrayed in picture books for younger children posted on 02 Jan 2017
I've written before about the need for children to read about dementia as part of a ''normal' social landscape...
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Harmsen Van Der Beek (a.k.a Beek) posted on 30 Dec 2016
I know that Enid Blyton’s Noddy stories divide opinion ....
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From Roald Dahl to Alan Garner posted on 30 Dec 2016
The other evening I spent time with Michael Peach, an elderly retired architect who lives in a splendid Hobbit- like house...
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Ways of the Doomed posted on 27 Dec 2016
This is the second YA novel from this talented Scottish author whose first book ‘The Incomers’ was nominated for the prestigious Saltaire Society First