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

Classic in Short No.23: Elidor

Classics in Short No.22: The Story of the Little Red Engine

Classics in Short No.21: Clever Bill

Classics in Short No.20: The Squirrel, the Hare and the Little Grey Rabbit

Classics in Short No.19: Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain

Fin de Sièclism

Classics in Short No.18: Struwwelpeter

Classics in Short No.17: Just So Stories

Classics in Short No.16: Mistress Masham’s Repose

Classics in Short No.15: The Story of Babar

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