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Friday, 30 June 2023

Utterly Dark and the Tides of Time by Philip Reeve

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Cover: Paddy Donnelly ‘The sea . . . was full of tastes and flavours. . . It was like a tapestry of many coloured threads, and every thread...
Thursday, 22 June 2023

Island; the illustrated edition by David Almond and David Litchfield

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‘That is the big question . . . Why is there a me in the universe? And there is no answer, but it is a kind of question we must ask ourselv...
Friday, 16 June 2023

Let’s Chase Stars Together by Matt Goodfellow

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Illustration: Oriol Vidal ‘I am born in the storm of each second that we waste.’ ( I am here p, 112) Although poetry means a great deal to m...
Thursday, 15 June 2023

Global by Eoin Colfer & Andrew Donkin, illustrated Giovanni Rigano

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Coming into their own I am delighted that graphic novels are finally included in the range of material provided in those classrooms where c...
Saturday, 3 June 2023

Nightjar by Katya Balen; Jodie by Hilary McKay

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Accessible fiction - plus Publisher  Barrington Stoke continues to do a brilliant job in producing high quality, accessible books to entic...
Tuesday, 14 March 2023

Wilder by Penny Chrimes

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Illustrations: Manuel Šumberac Synchronicity?   I do not know if I actually go along with Carl Jung’s belief in Synchronicity, but I have s...
Friday, 10 March 2023

The Way of Dog by Zana Fraillon

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Brilliantly illustrated by Sean Buckingham This novel written in poems has promoted (a feeble attempt at) a similarly constructed review. S...