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Monday, 2 June 2014

Noel Streatfeild on "Desert Island Discs", 1976.
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Our Book Shelf

  • Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome (1930)
  • Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild (1936)
  • Crown of Acorns by Catherine Fisher (2010)
  • The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper (1973)
  • Hans Christian Andersen
  • Mary Poppins by P L Travers (1934)
  • Alf Prøysen and Mrs Pepperpot (1956)
  • Astrid Lindgren
  • The Ruby in the Smoke by Philip Pullman (1985)
  • The Wool Pack by Cynthia Harnett (1951)
  • The Story of Doctor Dolittle, Being the History of His Peculiar Life at Home and Astonishing Adventures in Foreign Parts by Hugh Lofting (1920)
  • Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling (1902)
  • Cue for Treason by Geoffrey Trease (1940)
  • The Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingliss Wilder (1935)
  • The Owl Service by Alan Garner (1967)
  • The Cuckoo Clock by Mrs Molesworth (1877)
  • We Couldn't Leave Dinah by Mary Treadgold (1941)
  • The Magicians of Caprona by Diana Wynne Jones (1980)
  • The Saturdays by Elizabeth Enright (1941)
  • The Children of Green Knowe by Lucy M Boston (1954)
  • Jenning's Little Hut by Anthony Buckeridge (1951)
  • Midnight is a Place by Joan Aiken (1974)
  • Emil and the Detectives by Erich Kästner (1929)
  • The Story of the Treasure Seekers: being the Adventures of the Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune by E Nesbit (1899)
  • Moominland Midwinter by Tove Jansson (1957)
  • The Summer Book by Tove Jansson (1972)
  • Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin (2005)
  • The Sword in the Stone by T H White (1938)
  • My Name is Mina by David Almond (2011)
  • Skellig by David Almond (1998)
  • First Term at Malory Towers by Enid Blyton (1946)
  • What Katy Did by Susan Coolidge (1872)
  • Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stephenson (1883)
  • The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff (1954)
  • The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame (1908)
  • Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz (2000)
  • The Family from One End Street by Eve Garnett (1937)
  • 1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up, Julia Eccleshare (ed) (2009)

Weblinks to Authors' Societies and Biographies

  • Cynthia Harnett on Wikipedia
  • Hugh Lofting
  • Rudyard Kipling
  • Geoffrey Trease
  • Alan Garner (unofficial site)
  • Mrs Molesworth by Jacqueline Wilson
  • Mary Treadgold
  • Diana Wynne Jones
  • Elizabeth Enright
  • Lucy Boston and Hemingford Grey Manor
  • Anthony Buckeridge: Linbury Court
  • Joan Aiken
  • Erich Kastner Museum
  • Edith Nesbit
  • Tove Jansson
  • Gabrielle Zevin
  • T H White
  • David Almond
  • Enid Blyton
  • Susan Coolidge
  • Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Rosemary Sutcliff
  • Kenneth Grahame
  • Anthony Horowitz
  • Eve Garnett

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  • Books for Keeps Magazine
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  • Bristol University BA in English Literature and Community Engagement
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  • Green Metropolis Book Exchange

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