Inspiring Young Readers
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A Christmas Carol posted on 03 Jul 2016
It must be a daunting experience to find yourself commissioned to illustrate a classic Dickens tale like A Christmas Carol
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The Fire-Eaters posted on 01 Jul 2016
This is a polished gem of a novel that rather took me by surprise.
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An Interview With Harriet Reuter Hapgood posted on 30 Jun 2016
An Interview With Harriet Reuter Hapgood
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The Fat Owl of the Remove and me : how Billy Bunter blighted my life posted on 28 Jun 2016
I was born in the early 1950s and until my late teens I was a very overweight child.
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Ellington was not a street posted on 26 Jun 2016
The Americans do this kind of children's book celebrating cultural diversity so well.
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Keys To The Kingdom posted on 23 Jun 2016
I wonder if you remember learning to read?
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Peter Firmin posted on 23 Jun 2016
Peter Firmin is quite simply a legend. This is the co-creator of Bagpuss,The Clangers and Pogles Wood - all of them classics of their genre.
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The Detective Dog posted on 22 Jun 2016
This is a delightful book about Detective Dog Nell
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An Interview With Mike Revell posted on 21 Jun 2016
An interview with Mike Revell
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The Otterbury Incident posted on 21 Jun 2016
A swashbuckling children's adventure story isn't what you might expect a poet with left-wing credentials and a serious interest in geo-politics to produce