Seven Miles of Steel Thistles

When vampires were vampires! Sally Nicholls, and the delights of being scared out of your wits. There was one in the corner of e...

Some time ago, out of interest, I pulled a list of ‘Children’s Classics’ off Wikipedia.  There were 66 titles, and Aesop’s Fables ...

Lucy Coats and the mysterious A. de Quincey's vegetarian dragon : In Book IX of the History of Animals , Aristotle states: ...

When my daughters were small I used to read aloud to them every evening, just as my mother used to read to me, and her mother to her,...

If I described this book as ‘ The Screwtape Letters for children’ I would be both spot on and way, way off at the same time. Becaus...

Polly the puppy is currently ruling my life during every waking minute of hers. Things will change week by week, but at the moment she sle...

I once read, I think in an essay by C.S. Lewis – that to have weird or unusual protagonists in a fantasy world was gilding the lily. Simply...