Inspiring Young Readers
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An Interview With Pippa Goodhart posted on 13 Jan 2017
An Interview With Pippa Goodhart
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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...