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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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November 29, 2016 Book Group / Cambridge / Children's Literature / Harry Potter / JK Rowling / University of Cambridge

Book group tomorrow! Cursed Child!

March 23, 2016 Event / Fairy Tale / Fantasy / Harry Potter / Hogwarts / JK Rowling

Top 10 Things We Learned at ICFA 2016

This week’s blog post is brought to you by TWO of our PhD students! The first (alphabetically) is Jen Aggleton, who is a

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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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September 23, 2012 Harry Potter / merchandise

Harry Potter and the $tudios of $ecrets

by Clémentine So yes, I’m writing the thesis, but when a friend calls me to say that she’s going with

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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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July 18, 2011 Characters / Deathly Hallows / Film / Harry Potter / research

Harry Potter and the Enduring Image

By Debbie On Friday night, the Potter-generation daughter and I arrived for the first showing of the Deathly Hallows finale

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July 17, 2011 Alex Rider / Anthony Horowitz / Books / Cambridge / Children's Literature / Fairy Tale / Film / Harry Potter / Jane Goldman / Michael Vaughn / Neil Gaiman / PhD / Stardust / Tolkien / translation

So…will someone please tell me what children’s literature is?

So…what is children’s literature? I should, by rights, add a disclaimer at the start of this blog entry that states

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June 23, 2011 Harry Potter / JK Rowling

Pottermore and the future of reading

One minute forty-nine seconds of JK Rowling interspersed with beautiful (if slightly bobo) animation leave us with more questions than

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