Brian Alderson

Book Author, Reviewer, Article Author
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Books Written

The 100 Best Children’s Books

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Edward Ardizzone

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Books Reviewed

The Provensen Book of Fairy Tales

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Never Grow Up

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How the Just So Stories were made

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Brookie and her Lamb

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A Telling of Stones

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The Making of Lewis Carroll’s Alice and the Invention of Wonderland

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The One that Got Away

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The House Without Windows

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Why was Billy Bunter Never Really Expelled? And another twenty-five mysteries of children’s literature

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The King of the Golden River

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Articles Published

Valediction 29: a trip to Mulberry Street

Valediction 28: Jean-Pierre

Valediction Number 27: Perkin the Pedlar

The Wind in the Willows revisited

Valediction Number 26: Puss in Boots

Valediction Number 25 This Year: Next Year

Obituary: Antony Maitland

Valediction Number 24: Some Running Rhymes

Valediction 23: Nursery Rhymes

Valediction 22: Feeding the Fowls

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