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December 2, 2012 Authors / Books / Children's Literature / Children's Literature Centre / Family / Five Children and It / Four Children and It / Hogwarts / PhD seminar / Psammead / Vancouver / Wishes

I wish…

  As a closet Jaqueline Wilson fan (although posting such a detail in a blog removes me from the closet

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July 29, 2012 American classics / Elsie Dinsmore / sentimental fiction

The Long Arm of Elsie Dinsmore

  By Ashley Growing up, I read a lot of books from the past, and most came from the same

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June 17, 2012 Carnegie Medal / Chaos Walking / Child Soldiers / Children / Children's Literature / Jim Kay / Kate Greenaway Medal / Kim Phuc / Monsters of Men / Patrick Ness / Syria / Vietnam War / war

Monsters of Men and Other Memories

Last week, author Patrick Ness won the Carnegie Medal, and illustrator Jim Kay won the Kate Greenaway Medal for A

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June 3, 2012 dresang / Internet / Kindle / Pottermore

Technology’s Effects: 13 Years On

by Richard In 1999, on the eve of the new millennium and a mere four or five years after the

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March 11, 2012 Alex Rider / Anthony Horowitz / authorial intention / Blue Peter / fiction / Film / Harry Potter / Jeff Kinney / JK Rowling / Michael Morpurgo / research / Wimpy Kid / World Book Day

Decade of the Wimpy Kid

This years World Book Day witnessed the crowning of a new literary hero when Blue Peter viewers voted the Diary

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January 29, 2012 Book Group / environmentalism / Toby Alone

Book Club: Toby Alone

By Ashley This past week we had our first book club meeting of the Lent Term. We discussed Toby Alone

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January 8, 2012 building learning power / Guy Claxton / learning / teaching / The Gruffalo's Child

The Gruffalo’s child as a model learner

by Richard Although I enjoy picturebooks, I have not read The Gruffalo’s Child so, over Christmas, I did exactly what

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December 11, 2011 parents / Ribblestrop / school story

Ribblestrop, Ribblestrop, Precious unto me!

My apologies should be extended to all readers of this entry before I continue any further.  Firstly, this blog entry

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October 24, 2011 Art Spiegelman / empathy / graphic novel / Maus / MetaMaus / narratology

My father bleeds history…Images of empathy in Maus

By Sophia Since then, at an uncertain hour That agony returns: And till my ghastly tale is told This heart

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September 30, 2011 Books

Are academic readers bad readers?

by Clementine Does being trained in literary criticism pollute our reading experience? That’s a question I often ask myself. A

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