Inspiring Young Readers
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The Snowflake Mistake posted on 22 Oct 2016
I rather like picture books that successfully blend fantasy with reality...
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Women of the Harlem Renaissance posted on 20 Oct 2016
Introducing younger readers to a subject as complex and, for UK readers in particular, as distant in both time and geography as this, is no easy task
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Forget Me Not posted on 16 Oct 2016
Bonfire night in the park and everyone is having a good time. Ten year old twins, Conor and Erin are with their best friend..
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A Knit and A Knot posted on 15 Oct 2016
This is the third in the series of picture books about Little Lionel the lamb...
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A World Between Us posted on 12 Oct 2016
Writing a novel for teenagers about the Spanish Civil War and making it engaging and truthful ....
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Boy In Darkness posted on 05 Oct 2016
Back in the late Sixties when I was still a teenager, I desperately wanted to be associated with the ideas and lifestyle of the counter-cultural ...
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The Trap posted on 18 Sep 2016
I’m guessing that the adjective most likely to be applied to this book is ‘controversial’.
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Stormwalker posted on 15 Sep 2016
This interesting novel covers several ambitious themes and kept my attention right up to the last page.
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Neverwhere posted on 04 Sep 2016
There are some very special books that will stay with you forever and I think that this will be one of them.
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A Library of Lemons posted on 30 Aug 2016
I was immediately drawn to this one because the back cover blurb promised a story about a child who was a book lover.