Inspiring Young Readers
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The Jungle Book posted on 18 Jun 2016
How do you go about rethinking the illustrations for a classic like The Jungle Book?
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Alice through the Looking Glass posted on 16 Jun 2016
As I am a huge Alice collector, I bought a copy of this companion volume
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The Tale of the Shining Princess posted on 09 Jun 2016
This is a beautiful book published by Kodasha International Ltd, Tokyo in 1966.
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Donald and Benoit posted on 08 Jun 2016
John Byrne is a fabulous painter and playwright from Paisley in Scotland and a key part of the cultural scene in Scotland.
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Collins Colour Camera Books posted on 05 Jun 2016
Let me take you back to the late 1940s in those first few years after the end of the Second World War.
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The Space Story Omnibus posted on 22 May 2016
When The Space Story Omnibus was published for boys ( and, yes, it was almost certainly for boys) in 1955, the real adventure in space had hardly begun.
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The Once and Future King posted on 10 May 2016
Published in 1958, White’s re-imagining of the King Arthur legend takes plenty of liberties with the original source
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Big Bad Bun posted on 24 Apr 2016
What do you do if you get a school report that's going to go down like a lead balloon with your parents?
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Nursery Rhymes illustrated by Paula Rego posted on 23 Apr 2016
Paula Rego was born in 1938 as a Portuguese citizen but her Anglophile parents sent her to school in the UK during the 1950s
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Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi illustrated by Grahame Baker-Smith posted on 17 Apr 2016
The story of Pinocchio, the wooden puppet with a desire to become a truly human little boy, feels like a story that is timeless