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Tom Percival is well known for his Big Bright Feelings picture books, which gently but effectively expand children’s understanding of the world and counter their anxieties. He’s also responsible for the sparky Little Legends series, which cleverly creates new adventures for favourite fairy-tale characters. His new novel is quite different. Heartfelt, authentic, The Wrong Shoes […]
Louise Forshaw on a book that caught her imagination as a child and that still inspires her. This is a tough question, since there are so many brilliant books! If I have to choose just one, it would be a book that I associate with my childhood: The Three Little Pigs retold by Vera Southgate […]
Brian Alderson is bidding farewell to old favourites as he donates his remarkable collection of children’s books to Seven Stories. His latest gift is a children’s book by Cyril Beaumont. There may still be some balletomanes and theatregoers who will recall Cyril Beaumont’s bookshop at 97 Charing Cross Road which ran from 1910 to 1965. […]
Once again, this author has taken us back to her world of ‘Fractured fairytales’, where we gradually see the shades of these familiar tales as we read further into the book. In this story, the central character, called Eve has grown up being trained to eventually fight the infamous ‘Knight’, who has been terrorizing the […]
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