Inspiring Young Readers
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The Intruder posted on 14 Sep 2022
The Intruder (1969) is probably the author’s best known novel and the one that won him a number of awards ...
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An Interview With Jenny Sullivan posted on 11 Sep 2022
An Interview with Jenny Sullivan
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The Baddies posted on 07 Sep 2022
All of the picture books published so far by this creative pair are big hits with young children, their parents and teachers.
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The Wonderful World of Oz posted on 04 Sep 2022
L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, published in book form in 1900, has gone on to become both a children’s classic and a wider cultural phenomenon
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Susan Cooper’s The Dark is Rising sequence posted on 31 Aug 2022
Guest writer, Alun Severn takes a look at the books that make up The Dark Is Rising sequence.
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The Midwinter Violins posted on 25 Aug 2022
The Puffin version of this book was published in 1976, three years after the original hardback release.
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A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning posted on 22 Aug 2022
The Bad Beginning is the first of what turned out to be a series of thirteen books by US author, Lemony Snicket, the pen name of Daniel Handler
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The Perfect Present posted on 18 Aug 2022
This impressive picture books was enjoyed by my seven year old granddaughter who read it with me recently ....
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The Stone Book Quartet posted on 15 Aug 2022
Guest reviewer, Alun Severn reads Alan Garner's 'Stone Book Quartet' and finds hidden power in these "enigmatic and simply written little books"
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The London Eye Mystery posted on 11 Aug 2022
Siobhan Dowd’s legacy is really remarkable. She died tragically young in 2007 at the age of just 40 ...