Brian Alderson

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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

A Conversation about Poetry: Twenty-two Signal Years

Classics in Short No.78: Nonsense Songs and Stories and Nonsense Botany and Nonsense Alphabets

Classics in Short No.77: The Thirteen Clocks and The Wonderful O

Authorgraph No.177: Kevin Brooks

Classics in Short No.76: Mind Your Own Business

Classics in Short No.75: The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Classics in Short No.74: Johnny the Clockmaker

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Classics in Short No.73: The Little White Horse

Classics in Short No.72: Mog the Forgetful Cat

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