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Part three in Darren Chetty and Karen Sands-O’Connor’s series looking at representations of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic voices in children’s books. Ever since Inigo Impey itched for an Indian image in Peter Piper’s Practical Principles of Plain and Perfect Pronunciation (1819), British children’s literature has expressed a fascination (sometimes a horrified one) with the […]
In their second article in a series looking at representations of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic voices in children’s books, Darren Chetty and Karen Sands-O’Connor venture into the fictional gardens and the countryside of children’s literature. In Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden (1911), sickly child Mary Lennox leaves India, depicted as a place of […]
The latest in our Beyond the Secret Garden series, by Karen Sands-O’Connor and Darren Chetty. We have discussed in previous Beyond the Secret Garden columns how the British countryside, historically and within children’s books, was a space populated and controlled by white, middle- and upper-class Britons. In Return of a Native: Learning from the Land, […]
Darren Chetty interviews his friend and sometime writing partner Jeffrey Boakye about his book Musical Truth. Jeffrey Boakye is a special talent and Musical Truth is a special book. It manages to cover more Black British post-war history than my entire education from primary school to university. And it does so in prose that is […]
Books for Giving 2020 Baby loves Earth: An ABC of our Planet, Jennifer Eckford, illus Teresa Bellon, Frances Lincoln Children’s Books, 978-0711253193, £8.99 board book Where Are You Tiger?, Eco Baby DK, 978-0241440254, £7.99 board book Honey for You, Honey for Me, A First Book of Nursery Rhymes, Michael Rosen, illus Chris Riddell, Walker Books, […]
Fen Coles interviews Patrice Lawrence about her new book Eight Pieces of Silva. 2019 was something of a writing quilt for Patrice Lawrence. Her work encompassed historical MG fiction, Diver’s Daughter: A Tudor Story; comedic reluctant reader, Toad Attack; a YA World Book Day short story, Snap!; a chapter offering a star turn to the […]
Now in its 6th year, the Little Rebels Award recognises the rich tradition of radical publishing for children in the UK. Previous winners include: Andrea Beaty and David Roberts for Ada Twist, Scientist; Alexis Deacon and Vivian Schwarz for Henry Finch; Gill Lewis for Scarlet Ibis; Gillian Cross for After Tomorrow; Sarah Garland for Azzi […]
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