April 1912. Clarty Clara is the baby of her large family who is known for causing trouble. She lives on a ranch but has always dreamed of adventures, like the kind had by her cousin Harold, or Harry, who is th5Marconi operator aboard HMS Carpathia. W ...
Review: The Tide Singer by Eloise Williams. Illustrated by August Ro.
1895 - Carregton Crow. Morwenna is the undertaker's child in a tiny community. She's used to rowing dead bodies out to the island cemetery, listening to local gossip and to the tales of the tide singers who supposedly create storms in order to drown ...
The Magic of the Ballet by Vivian French and Lauren O’Hara
Join in the movement and magic of the ballet with this collection of seven classical stories. This was clearly written with children in mind and it includes family favourites such as The Nutcracker, The Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake. The pairing ...
Blog Tour: Faber Book of Bedtime Stories – spotlight on Fairygodmothers Don’t Exist by Ayesha Braganza
Q&A with Ayesha Braganza Tell us about your storyMy story is called Fairy Godmothers Don’t Exist. It is a riotous tale with wands, wishes and footballs. It is all about Naz and his hopeless Fairy Godmother who turns up at school and t ...
Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls 5
Volume five of the best-selling and highly popular Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls series focuses its attention on young change makers of the modern era. Each young woman is given a double page spread, with her story told on one page and her portrait i ...
Long Way Down – The Graphic Novel by Jason Reynolds and Danica Novgorodoff review
Will wakes one morning with a mission. His brother Shawn is dead. Will takes Shawn’s gun and gets into the lift that will take him to the ground floor of his apartment block and outside to get revenge. What will doesn’t expect is for his friend B ...