Inspiring Young Readers
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At the meeting point between literature and life posted on 14 Feb 2017
Sometimes a fictional book comes to life before my eyes - and it isn't necessarily a good experience.
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Discovering The Pleasures Of A Puffin posted on 18 Jan 2017
I didn’t grow up reading Puffin paperbacks – I didn’t grow up reading much beyond comics in fact.
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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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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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Q: When is a book not a book? A: When it’s a toy posted on 13 Dec 2016
I’ve noticed that quite an interesting debate going on in some corners of the internet about whether children are ‘over-toyed’.
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Max and Moritz : a German children’s classic that never quite made the crossover posted on 02 Dec 2016
As a university tutor I have recently been doing some work with two German students who are in the UK on an Erasmus exchange scholarship.
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More than just kid’s stuff posted on 19 Nov 2016
A little while ago when the author Alan Gibbons came to talk to students at the university I teach in, I asked him........
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Children’s Books : a window on our social history posted on 11 Nov 2016
A recent article on the Little Things website has reminded me of what a rich source of social history..
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Wheelchairs in picture books: sometimes you see them and sometimes you don’t posted on 12 Oct 2016
Richard Reiser is a well-known disability rights campaigner ...
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Raising a reader: Boden's first three months posted on 01 Oct 2016
I am sometimes told that I need to tone down my passion for children's books ...