Inspiring Young Readers
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Blossom posted on 20 Sep 2021
Thanks to her plant-loving grandparents, Tutu and Pops, ten year old Blossom has grown up surrounded by beautiful plants and flowers
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The Puffin Portal posted on 16 Sep 2021
Back in November of last year we were introduced for the first time to the Griffin family....
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Freeze posted on 13 Sep 2021
It’s always a sign that the summer is coming to an end and the dark nights are just around the corner when collections of spooky start to appear.
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Once Upon a Tune: Stories from the Orchestra posted on 09 Sep 2021
Alongside his work creating wonderful books such as Mrs Noah’s Pockets and Mrs Noah’s Garden, this prolific author/ illustrator works with a huge variety
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A Wrinkle In Time posted on 08 Sep 2021
I can’t believe it’s taken me until now to catch up with this extraordinary 1962 classic ...
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Promising Pages: irrigating the book desert posted on 05 Sep 2021
Close friends of us here at the Letterpress Project - Kay and Michael Reid – left the UK over two decades ago....
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A History of Children’s Books in 100 Books posted on 30 Aug 2021
Published in 2017 by The British Library, A History of Children’s Books in 100 Books is the kind of sumptuous volume they do so well.
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Evadne Price and the Jane series posted on 26 Aug 2021
One of the most pleasurable things about obsessively hunting for second hand books in some unpromising and uncongenial junk shops....
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My Swordhand Is Singing posted on 23 Aug 2021
The vampire legend tends to be dominated by the conventions established by Bram Stoker’s Dracula ...
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Titania and Oberon posted on 18 Aug 2021
There are times when the reissue of a book isn’t just a rediscovery of an otherwise dormant nugget of publishing history but an act of genuine artistic end