Brian Alderson

Book Author, Reviewer, Article Author
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Books Written

The 100 Best Children’s Books

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Books Reviewed

The Provensen Book of Fairy Tales

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Never Grow Up

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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

Price: £19.50
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The King of the Golden River

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Billy and the Minpins

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A Treasury of 8 Books

Price: £64.95
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Articles Published

Valediction No.5: Jan and George

Valediction No.4: Oxus and After

Valediction: No.3 Book Ends

Classics in Short No.148: More Queery Learishness

Classics in Short No.147: Goodnight Mister Tom

Classics in Short No.146: Nonsense Songs and Amblongus Pie

Classics in Short No.145: A Book of Nonsense

Classics in Short No.144: The Treasure of the Isle of Mist

Classics in Short No.143: To the Wild Sky

Classics in Short No.142: Walkabout

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