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Books of the Year 2023

January 19, 2023 /in Other Articles

…our very first glimpse of the gorgeous cover, which evokes childhood, creativity, and imagination, we couldn’t wait to publish The Chalk Garden (April). Emma’s actual garden is made up of…

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Non-fiction all wrapped up

November 16, 2023 /in Other Articles non-fiction; information; knowledge

…First and Second World war heroes. Focusing in particular on the Second World War, Spies by David Long, illustrated by Terri Po (10-12) tells the exciting stories of secret agents…

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Exploring Realms of Imagination at the British Library

November 16, 2023 /in Other Articles Mervyn Peake, British Library, Lewis Carroll, Fantasy

…and new to create something transformative. There can also be a bittersweet element to portal Fantasy – such as in Philippa Pearce’s Tom’s Midnight Garden (1958), a ‘timeslip’ story in…

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Books for Giving Christmas 2023

November 16, 2023 /in Other Articles gifts, Christmas

…animals that protect the children there. In The Snow Girl by Sophie Anderson, lonely Tasha makes a snow girl who becomes a real, living girl, a friend, though a secret…

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Ten of the Best Books About Pirates

March 18, 2024 /in Ten of the Best pirates

…life as a plantation owner’s daughter in the Caribbean alongside her father’s slave Boubacar, her secret best friend. They board a pirate ship run by maroons, escaped slaves, under Captain…

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Children’s Books of the Year 2024 Publishers A – J

January 15, 2024 /in Books of the Year

…Silver Tides by Sylvia Bishop is a beautifully written book that reimagines the myths of our rivers, seas and lochs. Set within a secretive community of people who can breathe…

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Island Adventures An Interview with Kereen Getten

June 17, 2023 /in Featured Author Di Island Crew Investigates, Kereen Getten

…friends, ‘the Greatest Gang of All Time’, kids who, in the classic tradition of the Secret Seven or Nancy Drew, like nothing better than a good puzzle to solve. Andrea…

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Explodapedia – an explosion in non-fiction

July 14, 2023 /in Other Articles non-fiction; information; knowledge

…a lattice, a network, with a title at every node. The enormous labour of making an old-time encyclopaedia doesn’t make economic sense anymore. But the need for young readers and…

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An Interview with Peter Brown

November 1, 2018 /in Featured Author

…the UK. It was while he was working on his picture book The Curious Garden about a boy who becomes a gardener despite living in a grey, dreary city that…

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Windows into Illustration: Rob Ramsden

May 18, 2023 /in Windows into Illustration illustration, Rob Ramsden

A graduate of the MA in Children’s Book Illustration at the Cambridge School of Art, Rob Ramsden channels his fascination with nature and love of gardening into his work. His…

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Valediction No.8: Meadows and Muffins

November 17, 2022 /in Valedictions

…as Humphrey Carpenter cannot be done through a few quotes and kindly words as given, say, by Morag Styles in her much-praised From the Garden to the Street (Cassel, 1998)…

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Authorgraph No.258: Sean Taylor

January 19, 2023 /in Authorgraph Sean Taylor, picture books, writing

…went up to his writing eyrie in the roof to continue our chat Sean describes his writing imagination as a kind of garden, where he finds unexpected things growing. About…

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A Q&A interview with Peter Brown

October 6, 2023 /in Interviews The Wild Robot, Peter Brown, interview

…connection to the characters and to the story. You’ve said that you first had the idea for a book about a robot when working on The Curious Garden, which was…

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Books for Keeps Books for Giving Book List 2023

November 16, 2023 /in

…Garden 65th Anniversary Edition, Philippa Pearce, foreword by Frank Cottrell Boyce, Oxford, 978-0192788740, £12.99 hbk A Traveller in Time, Alison Uttley, illus John Broadley, Faber Children’s Books, 9780571382040, £12.99 hbk…

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Growing up in Discworld

November 16, 2023 /in Featured Author

…pink cottage in the Somerset countryside, where her family had goats in the front garden and chickens and ducks in the back, also played a part in tapping into the…

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Kate Saunders

March 18, 2024 /in Other Articles retrospective, Kate Saunders

…inspiration for this story came from an episode in the life of C.S.Lewis when he and his brother Warnie decided as adults to bury their much-loved toys in the garden…

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Gifts and Books: Children’s books as gifts, and stories of generosity in children’s books

July 19, 2023 /in Other Articles

…shoes every night, but the Langs’ protagonist is Michael, a dreamy young garden boy who wins the affections of the youngest princess, Lina. In his deference to the princesses, Michael…

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Ten of the Best School Stories

September 18, 2023 /in Ten of the Best school stories

…Nigeria, Jummy passes the exam to the elite River School where pupils are expected to garden and clean as well as study. Her friend, Caro, is equally bright but cannot…

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