Book Covers
A Reader in the Wilderness has been Blog Hopping again and the question last week was about book covers. Do they influence you? I know, I’m a week late! I started buying books for children before I...
View ArticleThe Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde
Yesterday the weather forecasters gave us the oh so cheery news that we are stuck with this freezing cold weather until the end of April, due to the position of the jet stream. I couldn’t help being...
View ArticleChristmas/Winter Books
I think that if you live in the UK there are lots of children’s books which make you think – Christmas – it’s because of that fabulous tradition pantomime. My local theatre always has about 2 months of...
View ArticleGuardian Review links
This week’s Guardian Review section has a few articles that you might find interesting. The books interview features Liz Lochhead, she’s a Scottish poet, just in case you didn’t know. She says: ‘You’re...
View ArticleNew to me books
On Sunday we went to the antiques fair at Ingliston, we hadn’t managed to go to the last one they had there as we were down south – in a place that others call ‘up north’ but it’s all relative. It was...
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