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A blog about Children's Classics for Grown-Ups: a Bath Library Book Group
Monday, 4 July 2016
The Chalet School - Link to Radio 4 programme
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The Chalet School The crime writer Val McDermid on her love of the Chalet School boarding school novels. She credits them with inspiring h...
Monday, 25 January 2016
Donating to the Seven Stories National Centre for Children's Books
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As our reading group has confirmed, the UK has a wonderful heritage of writing and illustration for children and British children’s books ...
Monday, 3 November 2014
Allan Ahlberg : interviewed in 2008
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Link to BBC Radio 4 - Allan Ahlberg interviewed on Desert Island Discs 2008
Allan Ahlberg and his poetry
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Allan Alhberg reading from his poems http://childrenspoetryarchive.org/poet/allan-ahlberg
Sunday, 28 September 2014
Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome (1930)
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This choice of book prompted at least one member of our group to overcome her phobia of Ransome's books - prompted by her local library...
Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild (1936)
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Born in 1895, Noel Streatfeild was the author of a great many books, the most famous of which is Ballet Shoes . Ballet Shoes tells t...
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Crown of Acorns by Catherine Fisher (2010)
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Following our group's enjoyment of Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising , we decided to try another fantasy writer - this time Cathe...
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