Seven Miles of Steel Thistles

I love this story partly because it's such a good one to tell aloud - and also because the hero is one of those impudently brave ...

I’m not afraid of the dark. It’s streetlights I don’t like, especially those glaring orange sodium lights. Have you noticed how strang...

My friend Fiona Dunbar 's lively and exciting children's adventure stories leap boundaries and span genres: for example her bri...

There is a vast range of ghosts in children’s fiction.  I’m going to leave out all the comic ones, on the assumption that a comic ghost s...

"The Book of Dreams and Ghosts" was written by Andrew Lang, famous for his many-coloured collections of fairy stories – The Red, T...

Since the last entry, I've been on a school visit.  And talking to 200 Year 7s (twelve years old, approximately) has made me think furth...