Seven Miles of Steel Thistles

Genesis 11, verses 1-9: 1 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. 2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from th...

You can find me this morning over at Lucy Coats' blog, Scribble City Central .  Like me, Lucy is a British children's fantasy author...

Do you remember the Penguin Classics – that fantastic collection of black-liveried paperbacks comprising translations of classic literatu...

Heroines, you will note, not ‘fairytale princesses’. For though princesses do figure in fairytales, the heroine is just as often a peasant ...

Out of interest, the other day, I pulled a list of ‘Children’s Classics’ off Wikipedia.  There are 66 titles, and Aesop’s Fables heads t...

Luck - or the goddess Fortuna - used to be portrayed in art as a woman turning a ever-moving wheel, the Wheel of Fortune, on which people ro...

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...