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Tuesday, 15 October 2019

The Velvet Fox by Catherine Fisher

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Cover: Anne Glenn Faery interlude I am actually in the middle of reading Philip Pullman’s  The Secret Commonwealth, (along with half the re...
Monday, 30 September 2019

The Time of Green Magic by Hilary McKay

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Cover: Dawn Cooper In parenthesis  If I didn’t already know (which I do because I have read The Skylarks’ War ) I would have identified Hil...
Wednesday, 11 September 2019

I Go Quiet by David Ouimet

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‘When I read I know that there is a world beneath my branches. I read that every living thing is a part of me. I think I may be part of eve...
Thursday, 5 September 2019

The Girl Who Speaks Bear by Sophie Anderson

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Illustration: Kathrin Honesta ‘We don’t have to be the same to fit together.’ (p 376) At last After what has seemed like an interminable wa...
Monday, 5 August 2019

The Colour of the Sun by David Almond

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Cover: David Litchfield ‘Get yourself out into the sun, lad,’  Over the course of twenty years or so, I have read David Almond’s books with...
Friday, 2 August 2019

The Lost Tide Warriors by Catherine Doyle

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Cover: Bill Bragg ‘It was always a storm.’   (p 194) Now number two I warmly welcomed the first in this series,  The Storm Keeper’s Island,...
Wednesday, 31 July 2019

Fire Girl, Forest Boy by Chloe Daykin

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‘Sometimes you have to pull the strings of your heart and go.’ (p 25) The two before this one  In a totally metaphorical (non-violent) way,...