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July 3, 2018 Bookclub / Charles Dickens / Children's Literature / Christmas / classics / graphic novel

Batman: Noël – Summer in Cambridge with A Christmas Carol

Maya Zakrzewska-Pim is a second year PhD candidate studying twenty-first century popular culture in adaptations of Charles Dickens’s novels for

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December 24, 2017 Break / Children's Literature / Children's Poetry / Christmas / classics / Disney / Fairy Tale / Family / Film

My Childhood Christmas Readings

Lisa Kazianka is a first-year PhD student analysing modern Arthurian adaptations for children and young adults from a masculinity studies

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October 31, 2017 Break / Children's Literature / classics / fiction / Five Children and It / Four Children and It

Nostalgia and the Boom of Children’s Literature for Adults

Alex Conway is a book nerd, cat lover, and recent Cambridge graduand in cultural, political and social geography, with a focus

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June 28, 2017 Cambridge / Children's Literature / Deathly Hallows / Disney / Harry Potter / Harry Potter / JK Rowling / MPhil / Twilight / University of Cambridge

What a transformation! Glass slippers, Polyjuice Potion and a Very Hungry Caterpillar

Anna Purkiss is an MPhil student who is currently writing her thesis on representations of disability in contemporary young adult

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May 30, 2017 Anne of Green Gables / Children's Literature / Harry Potter / MPhil

Reflecting on Friendship

This week’s post is by Anna Purkiss, an MPhil-er who’s almost done! One of my favourite parts about my MPhil

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March 7, 2017 Books / Children's Literature / Harry Potter

Cats in Children’s Literature (aka, that longing for a pet when you can’t have one)

Beka Kimberley is an MPhil student in Children’s Literature, which is a wonderful thing to be. It is the greatest

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November 29, 2016 Children's Literature / Little Women

Happy birthday, Louisa May Alcott!

If she’d still been (miraculously) alive, Louisa May Alcott would be turning 184 today. How did I know this? Am

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November 22, 2016 Books / Children's Literature / readers / University of Cambridge

Book Lovers’ Biggest Pet Peeves

This week’s blog post is brought to you by Dee Dee Lee, who NEVER bends the book spine! Do you

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October 18, 2016 Children's Literature / Judith Kerr / Seven Stories / When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit

Forced Migration & Identity

This week’s post is brought to us by Lucy Stone, who did her MPhil in children’s literature here from 2014-15. She

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June 15, 2016 ALMA / Event / Homerton College / KM Peyton / Meg Rosoff / Pony books

Horsing around

By Sarah Hardstaff, photos copyright Siddharth Pandey In my last blog post (here), I mentioned the HorseTales Conference organised by Zoe Jaques,

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