A Strong Belief in Wicker

Whenever readers go away the first thing we always do is pick our holiday TBR. We do this long before thinking about what clothes or other s...

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is one of Roald Dahl's most famous and beloved stories. There have been two wonderful film versio...

The Outsiders is a seminal YA novel, indeed its publication in 1967 is credited with creating realistic YA as a genre. S.E. Hinton wa...

Reading a classic, a well-loved book for the first time can be a bit of an anxious time. Such a weight of expectations can burden the ...

A Pair of Jesus-Boots was originally published in 1969, reprinted several times in the early to mid 70s and then made into a BBC 4 part...

I'd never really heard of this book before the author Barry Hines died last year . I vaguely knew it was on my 1001 list but that...

I'd never heard of Worzel Gummidge or Barbara Euphan Todd before this book came to the top of my 1001 reading. Which is a bit surpr...

Hating Alison Ashley is an iconic Australian childrens book. Released in 1984 I've only been aware of it for the past few years I ...

I'd been looking forward to reading Ballet Shoes for some time, and presumed that I would love it. For some reason I thought I woul...

I’ve been wanting to read Catherine Jinks for quite some time. I saw her talk at my local library quite a few years ago now- it must ...

I just finished a re-read of The Borrowers, and enjoyed it just as much as I remembered it. Mary Norton's classic story came out in...

As soon as I began reading Sounder I realised that I was in similar territory to another 1970s Newbery winner- Roll of Thunder, Hear My...

I'm no expert in Appalachian literature, although I did enjoy Bill Bryson's A Walk in the Woods a few years ago, and so I'd...

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry wasn't a well known book for me. I came across it in my 1001 quest , and have seen it in a few lists ab...