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[[Category:Anthologies|*]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1737030942|title=RoguesBag O'Goodies|author=George R R Martin and Gardner Dozois (Editors)Jolly Walker Bittick|rating=3.54|genre=Anthologies|summary=George R R Martin is undoubtedly the biggest name in modern day fantasySometimes, you deserve a treat and Gardner Dozois an American science fiction author of considerable renownmine was Jolly Walker Bittick's ''Bag O'Goodies''. Here I first encountered his writing about a year ago, the two collect twenty one stories when I read his [[Cape Henry House by Jolly Walker Bittick|Cape Henry House]], a list rollicking tale of well known what happens when five young men find a base for their partying. Right now, I didn't want a full-length novel, so I turned to this anthology of verse and hugely loved authorsshort stories.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783297190</amazonuk> Bittick's writing has matured - and so have his characters. Well... most of them!

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=140638853X|title=While Wandering - A Walking CompanionSomebody Give This Heart a Pen|author=Duncan MinshullSophia Thakur

|summary=Sophia Thakur's debut anthology is a collection of poems that are all unique, whether in relation to their style, length or theme. The collection is split into four sections, titled 'grow'While Wandering - A Walking Companion, 'wait', was first published ten years ago as 'break'The Vintage Book of Walkingand 'grow again', guiding you through a process which is one of the foundations that the anthology is built on. Reprinted and retitled Each section begins with a stunning new cover by James Jones and Finn Deanforegrounded title page containing various small pieces of writing, and ranging from a foreword quote by Robert Macfarlanea Nigerian playwright, to African proverbs. This provides a nice introduction to the best writer on walking section before you are immersed in recent years (in my humble opinion)the beautifully written and eloquent poems that Thakur has clearly put her heart and soul into.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009959336X</amazonuk>

{{newreview''You’re the froth on my soy cappuccino''<br>|title=A is Amazing!: Poems about Feelings''You’re the spread on my paleo toast''<br>|author=Wendy Cooling and Piet Grobler|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse'You’re the nose of my GM-free Pinot''<br>|summary=How do you get young children interested in poetry? I guess you hope that you don't have to – you want them to be aware of clapping and skipping songs by nature, and of lyrics to music heard in school and at home. Surely it's a case of making sure a child never learns to hold verse in disfavourYou’re organic, and carries a natural eagerness for poetry through to adulthoodmy love. But just in case, there are books such as this wonderfully thought-through compilation, that will catch You’re the eye and entertain those aged six or seven and up, and provide for many a read of many a different style of verse.|amazonuk=most!''<amazonukbr>1847805132</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|title=A Broken World: Letters, diaries and memories of the Great War|author=Sebastian Faulks and Hope Wolf|rating=4.5|genre=History|summary=Sebastian Faulks and Dr Hope Wolf have expertly brought together Ha! How can you not laugh at this far-reaching collection of memories, diaries, letters and postcards written during and after the First World War. While Faulks is the author of novels such as ''Birdsong'' and ''Charlotte Gray'', Dr Hope Wolf is a research fellow in English at the University of Cambridge, whose doctoral research focused gently mocking take on archives at the Imperial War Museum. The combination of such a respected author, whose most famous (and arguably his best) novel is set love in the First World War, and an academic whose expertise is the in the same area, means that this fascinating collection hits all the right notes. It's commemorative, poignant and very human.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091954223</amazonuk>hipster world?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=PUP_Rising|title=Dead But Not ForgottenRising Stars: New Young Voices in Poetry|author=Charlaine Harris and Toni LP Kelner (Editors)Pop Up Projects|rating=3.54

|summary=This collection brings together five emerging voices in poetry. And despite what the publisher says, I wouldn''Dead But Not Forgotten'' returns to Sookie Stackhouse's world, exploring t personally impose an age restriction on the lives and misadventures of some of the more minor characters in the serieswriting here. The collection features stories about Pam Ravenscroft, Adele Hale Stackhouse, Luna, Diantha, Bubba and Each poet uses words that will appeal to many of the other colourful characters from Bon Temps and the wider universe of Sookiereaders. I found this particularly so with Jay Hulme's story, written by authors such as Seanan McGuire, Rachel Caine, Nicole Peeler, Christopher Golden and many morepoetry.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00GBQXN6K</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Stevenson_Garden|title=Stories A Child's Garden of World War OneVerses|author=Tony BradmanRobert Louis Stevenson|rating=52|genre=TeensAnthologies|summary=World War One, or the Great War as it was known at the time, Robert Louis Stevenson was a cataclysmic war. Millions died and life was changed forever for the survivors - for very versatile writer; he delved deep into the women human psyche when he wrote ''The Strange Case of Britain, Doctor Jekyll and for Mr Hyde'' but he did not restrict himself to representations of the working classes gothic and ruling classes alikethe persecuted. 2014 is the centenary of its outbreak He also wrote brilliant children's adventure stories such as ''Treasure Island'' and the redoubtable Tony Bradman has gathered together a dozen of our best writers for young people ''Kidnapped'', but, again, he did not restrict himself to create an anthology of short stories prose writing because here he demonstrates his ability to commemorate the anniversarywrite poetry.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408330350</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Esiri Poem|title=Daughters A Poem for Every Day of Timethe Year|author=Mary Hoffman (editor)Allie Esiri

|genre=Confident ReadersAnthologies|summary=This For those who do not read much poetry, for those who do not know where to start, this is an anthology aimed at tweens a fun and younger teens easy commitment to take on the subject of ''some of history's most remarkable women''. It's an interesting idea, particularly as the usual suspects are perhaps avoided. No Elizabeth I, Mary Queen of Scots, Victoria, or Florence Nightingale. Instead we get BoudicaReading a poem a day does not take long, Mary Seacolemere minutes, Aphra Behn and Julian of Norwich, amongst others. It doesnwith over three-hundred poems in here there't altogether work for me but there are enough strong stories s bound to make it well worth be a lookpoem that speaks to each reader directly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184877169X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Herbertson_Wordsworth|title=No Man's LandWilliam and Dorothy Wordsworth: Writings From A World At WarMiscellany|author=Pete Ayrton (editor)Gavin Herbertson|rating=45

|summary=July 2014 marks the centenary William Wordsworth was a defining member of the outbreak romantic literary era. He was part of the Great War: first wave, and his poetry helped to shape a war that has become imprinted on the national consciousness of Britain (and plenty of modern nation-states), partly because of the large numbers part of people (mostly men) writing about it. I don't mean journalists, who had been covering wars for Nature was the Victorian public, but artistskey: poets, authors, memoirists and painters. The poets especially have stamped World War One on collective memory, through countless poetry anthologies, recitals at memorialsexisting in nature, finding one's own true nature and becoming natural in school classroomsthe process were the driving forces behind it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846689252</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=Of Lions and Unicorns: A Lifetime of Tales from the Master StorytellerMahfouz_Muslim|author=Michael Morpurgo|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summarytitle=''Of Lions and Unicorns'' is a collection of short stories and extracts from Morpurgo’s most popular books. The book is split into five sections, which focus on recurring themes in his writing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007395353</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Rags and BonesThings I Would Tell You: British Muslim Women Write|author=Melissa Marr and Tim Pratt (Editors)Sabrina Mahfouz|rating=4.5

|summary=Some of today's top authors have come together What does it mean to retell classic tales be British and Muslim? This is a question these writers tackle with stunning clarity. Modern- from fairy stories to Victorian-era fiction. As usual with this kind day British society has a varied sense of anthology, cultural heritage; it's is a fairly hit-or-miss affairsociety that is changing and moving forward as it adds more and more voices to the population, but the hits here it is also one that has an undercurrent of anxiety and fear towards those who are so strong minorities. So this collection displays how all that they're well worth picking up fear is received; it comes in the book forform of stereotypical labels and racial prejudice, which are themes eloquently reproduced here. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472210522</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris MossHolland Cheap|title=Smoothly From Harrow: A Compendium for View from the London CommuterCheap Seats|author=Barry Holland

|summary=If you want A little bit about Barry Holland: he was born in Newport, South Wales, to get ''behind'' what commuting working-class parents. He loves rugby and his son - his son is his favourite rugby player, which is just as it should be. He is really like - not in an academic or a political way, qualified engineer but from the perspective of having your hand through a strap and wishing that the man next is unable to you wasn't ''quite'' so enamoured work because of Brut aftershave mental ill- then you need a travel journalisthealth. Step forward (but mind the gap), Chris Moss, who writes regularly for the All of these things feed into ''Daily Telegraph'' and has done the same for View from the ''GuardianCheap Seats'', ''Independent'' which is a collection of poems and imaginings as vivid and immediate and various magazinesstriking as you could hope for. Most importantly, he's commuted from Camberwell, Camden, Hackney, Harrow, Herne Hill, Surbiton Barry sounds like a thoroughly nice bloke and Tooting. Personally, I think he deserves his book was a medalpleasure to read.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905131623</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Marshall EFT|title=The Time Traveller's AlmanacBook of English Folk Tales|author=Anne VanderMeer Sybil Marshall and Jeff VanderMeerJohn Lawrence

|summary=From H.G Wells ghosts to witches, to giants and fairies, ''Doctor WhoThe Book of English Folk Tales'', there is something about a good time-travel story that has the power to ignite the imagination in a way unique to the genrefascinating collection of stories retold by social historian and folklorist Sybil Marshall. Perhaps it is due to the fact that when dealing with the subject Out of time travelprint for over three decades, literally ''anything this beautiful new clothbound edition is possible''. Well, almost anything...apart from going back in time complete with wood-engraved illustrations by John Lawrence and killing your Grandfather, which we know would cause an almighty paradox and probably destroy is sure to capture the universeattention of a new generation of lovers of folklore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781853908</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Trotman_Winter|title=Stuff I've Been ReadingWinter: A Book for the Season|author=Nick HornbyFelicity Trotman (editor)|rating=4.5

|summary=I am lucky enough to be typing this while sitting on the fifth floor This seasonal anthology contains a nice mixture of the magnificent new Library poetry, nature and travel pieces, and excerpts from longer works of Birminghamfiction. Coming in at Felicity Trotman, a whopping £189 million freelance editor and member of the burghers of English Civil War Society, has arranged the second city certainly havenmaterial into three sections: 'The Old Year', 'Christmas, Sacred and Secular', and 'The New Year't skimped in trying . This creates an appropriate sense of chronological progression and also serves to create a 21st century centre make Christmas the heart of learningthe book. Amongst all the interactive learning zonesBlack-and-white illustrations – maps, digital galleries photographs and coffee shops there engravings – are interspersed throughout, and each author gets a short paragraph of course books. Many, many books. Over one million in fact. And this in an era when some critics have said that the book in its current form is deadbiography and background.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241003334</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Elphinstone_Winter|title=Beyond Rue Morgue: Further Tales of Edgar Allan Poe's 1st DetectiveWinter Magic|author=Paul Kane and Charles Prepolec Abi Elphinstone (EditorsEditor)

|summary=C. Auguste Dupin is often regarded as the first fictional detective and at the very least Edgar Allan Poe’s character was the blueprint for many sleuths With everything from dragons to comemysterious crimes, most notably Sherlock Holmes. Dupin is an eccentric genius from Paris whose use of logic and deduction aid the police on their most baffling cases. The characters literary debut was in the short story ''The Murders in the Rue Morgue'' in 1841 and between 1842 and 1844 Poe wrote two more short stories about Dupin and his exploits. ''Beyond Rue Morgue'' contains nine stories (in addition voice-stealing witches to the original Poe tale) by various authors and gives many different takes on the same character or influenced by him. From samurai assassins time travel, and the apocalypse magical worlds to an agoraphobic distant relative first performances of Dupin attempting to solve world-famous ballets, this is a murder without even leaving her home; the different writers all take the intriguing character to places we wouldn’t expect and the creativity collection of all keeps the character fresh short stories that delights from story start to storyfinish.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781161755</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Best British Short Stories 2013|author=Nicholas Royle (editor)|rating=5|genre=Short Stories|summary=Expect to read some quality work in ''Best British Short Stories 2013'', sourced from a number Anthologies of short story magazines; 'Granta'stories can sometimes fall flat, 'Shadows with one or two good ones and Tall Trees', 'Unthology' and 'The Edinburgh Review' are just some of the publications in which these pieces were to be seen first. If asked to identify then a red thread between the components bunch of Nicholas Royle’s anthologymediocre fillers, I would say that in each short story, everything is left to simmer under the surfacebut this collection has no weak links... There is a frustration brought about by all the lack of clarity in every short storystories are good, which to me is a reflection of just how unclear the and most seismic of situations may be to any individual involvedthem are brilliant.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907773479</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Malcolm Gladwell|title=The Big New Yorker Book of Dogs with Foreword|rating=5|genre=Pets|summary=I think it's fair to say that you're not even going to pick this book felt entirely caught up unless you're a dog lover. If you've always yearned for a cat and shudder at the thought of early morning walks in the rain then this is definitely no the book for you. But - if you knoweach individual world as I read, or are known by a dog then it's loving the equivalent of that massive hamper of chocolate delights to a chocoholic. Only a magazine like the ''New Yorker'' could raid its archives and produce such a massive compendium of humour, illustrations, essays, fiction, poems varied and cartoons about dogs, or have a cast of writers which could put many a bookshop to shameextremely likeable heroines throughout.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>043402239X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Angela Macmillan Phinn_Virgin|title=A Little, Aloud for Children|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=This very special anthology of story extracts and poems to share aloud is a wonderful idea from The Reader Organisation to encourage reading aloud to children by parents, teachers, grandparents, librarians, friends or even other children. The terrific and very varied selection includes something to appeal to all tastes. It should tempt the reader to seek out the original books from which the extracts are taken and maybe to try children’s fiction that they have not considered before. The book includes classics, tried and tested old favourites and newer titles too. Dipping into this anthology for the first time feels a little like meeting old and maybe long forgotten friends and making new ones along the way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857560425</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewVirgin Mary's Got Nits|author=Stephanie Tillotson and Penny Thomas|title=All Shall be WellGervase Phinn

|summary=Twenty five years Christmas in our house is the time we tend to get on a plane and head to either sun or snow, anywhere that is far, far away from the madness at home, last- minute dashes to the shops on Christmas Eve and food cupboard stockpiles that would imply supermarkets are shutting for a quarter of a century - is month, nor a long timemere 36 hours. It's an incredible length But I do remember the feeling of time as an independent publisherChristmas when I was younger, particularly one which specialises in publishing the best in Welsh women's writingback when it was magical, but that's and back when you knew exactly what Honno have achieved. To celebrate the occasion they've published this anthology of twenty five short stories season would bring with carol concerts and school nativities and non-fiction piecesChristmas parties. They've previously been seen in the numerous anthologies published by Honno but when combined they give This book is an interesting anthology of those moments, and enlightening insight into it took me right back to the work wonder of these great writersChristmas as a child.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906784337</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mary BeardAyrton_Pasaran|title=All in a Don's DayNo Pasaran: Writings from the Spanish Civil War|author=Pete Ayrton (editor)

|genre=AutobiographyAnthologies|summary=Mary BeardIn 's latest collection, 'All in a Don's Day', of her assembled blog pieces ¡No Pasarán!: Writings from 2009 until the end of 2011, covers similar concerns to her previous selection, [[ItSpanish Civil War's A Don's Life by Mary Beard|It's a Don's Life]]. Professor Beard is , Pete Ayrton has chosen a fellow majority of Newnham Collegetexts by Spanish writers, Cambridge and became Classics Professor at there in 2004. She is also an expert in Roman laughter, an interest which she fully indulges in the pages of her TLS blog. In her latest collection she bemoans arguing that the parlous current state of both Education and the Academy, and makes witty observations on matters as various as television chefs, what and how to visit in Rome and the art and worth of completing references in an age when only positive things may be said conflict has long been written about postgraduate job-seekers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685362</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Adele Geras, Anne Fine, Henrietta Branford, Jacqueline Wilson, Malorie Blackman, Philip Pullman, Tony Mitton, Alan Garner, Berlie Doherty, Gillian Cross, Kit Wright, Michael Morpurgo, Susan Gates and Linda Newbery |title=Magic Beans|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=I was attracted to this book because it features stories from [[:Category:Jacqueline Wilson|Jacqueline Wilson]], [[:Category:Philip Pullman|Philip Pullman]], [[:Category:Michael Morpurgo|Michael Morpurgo]], [[:Category:Alan Garner|Alan Garner]] and many other prominent children's writers. I thought it might make a great Christmas or birthday present (and it would). There's a selection of stories from traditional sources such as Hans Christian Andersen, and Aesop, and I imagine that the authors were inveigled into writing for publisher David Fickling with a free choice point of original stories. So don't expect a collection or compendium, but rather an anthology view of tales that have entranced and inspired these writers in their own childhoods – magic beans indeedthe international brigades.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857560433</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Edwards_Manor|title=Christopher Golden Murder at the Manor: Country House Mysteries (EditorBritish Library Crime Classics)|titleauthor=Monster's CornerMartin Edwards (editor)

|summary=I''The Monsterm not big on short stories, but two factors nudged me towards this book. Firstly, it's Corner'' broadly golden age crime, one of my weaknesses and secondly, the editor is [[:Category:Martin Edwards|Martin Edwards]], a collection man whose knowledge of tales that are told from the monstergolden age crime is probably unsurpassed and he's perspective. It takes done us proud, not only with his selection but with the idea that we are all half-page biographies of the heroes of our own writers, which precede each story and has a gloriously good time with it. Ranging from the thought-provoking There's just enough there to the strange, allow you to place the shocking author and gory – theyto direct you to other works if you're a great tempted. It's an elegant selection of stories , from the likes of [[:Category:Kelley Armstrong|Kelley Armstrong]]well known and the less well known, [[:Category:Kevin J Anderson|Kevin J. Anderson]], Sarah Pinborough all set in and many othersaround the country house.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749957859</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael PalinColfer_Place|title=Ox TravelsOnce Upon a Place|author=Eoin Colfer (editor)|rating=43.5|genre=TravelAnthologies|summary=Ox Travels is You know the bit of the blurb on every ''Artemis Fowl'' book, where Eoin Colfer had it said about how you pronounce his name? That wasn't the intention of an anthology up-and-coming author to be recognisable; rather, it was pride. Pride in the difference of travel writing compiled it, of the Irishness of it. Ireland, it seems to raise funds for Oxfamme, but it is well worth buying more full than usual of people, things and ideas, and places that are different by dint of their singular nationality – and reading in its own rightso many deserve to have pride attached to them. Its generous 432 pages offer The places might not be the chance to meet 36 writersfamous ones, including travel writersbut they can be the source of pride, journalists and novelistsof stories, which is where this compilation of short works for the young comes in, with an introduction by Michael Palin the authors invited to select their chosen place and an afterword by Barbara Stocking, Oxfam's Chief Executivewrite about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184668496X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David LodgeCleeves_Murder|title=The Art of FictionStarlings and Other Stories|author=Ann Cleeves (editor)

|summary=Some academics produce streams Six authors, known collectively as 'Murder Squad', and their six accomplices were each given photographs of the remote landscape of fantastic concepts Pembrokeshire by acclaimed photographer David Wilson and ideas but their attempts at articulating them asked to come up with a wider reading public stumble into jargon and complexity. Thankfully David Lodge has no such troubles. As a mighty fine novelist ([[Nice Work short story inspired by David Lodge|Nice Work]], [[Thinkswhat they saw... by David Lodge|Thinks...]]Some of the stories will be more to your taste than others, Deaf Sentence and many more) who also has a day job as a professor of English, Lodge is perfectly qualified only to deliver be expected in such a varied anthology, but none are weak and if you enjoy crime short stories then this book on the craft of writing an in The Art of Fiction he has delivered one that is informative and enlightening as well as highly entertainingcould be a real treat.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099554240</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin Waddell and Emma Chichester ClarkMilne_Love|title=The Orchard Book Of Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy TalesLove From Pooh (Winnie the Pooh)|author=A A Milne

|summary=With ''The Princess and the Pea''For a small book, ''The Ugly Duckling''a small review – this is a quite delightful little thing, ''The Tinderbox''about which not a lot can be said. It is a gift book pure and simple, much in the way that Pooh Bear was a little simple at times (''The Little Match GirlPooh… thought how wonderful it would be to have a Real Brain which could tell you things''). With it comes a simple blurb, ''The Emperor's New Clothes'', ''The Tin Soldier''and almost instructions that it is for giving, ''The Swineherd'', ''The Nightingale'' and ''The Little Mermaid'', this there is a must-have compendium of classic fairy tales. You can't really go wrong with Hans Christian Andersen's bestspace for a loving dedication at the beginning, can you? Martin Waddell and Emma Chichester Clark have not just churned out the old classicswhich is again only apt, but they've given them an amazing freshness and vibrancyas it is all about love.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846169380</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Penny Dann|title=The Orchard Book Of Nursery Rhymes For Your Baby|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse|summary=All your favourite nursery rhymes are here Love of honey, from Hickory Dickory Docklove in friendship, through Little Bo Peep and Three Blind Micelove of all various kinds, to Sing A Song Of Sixpencebut just love. With over sixty nursery rhymes to choose from, all the big names are presented in a beautiful compendium that It can't help but make you'll treasure for yearsmost warm-hearted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408304589</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Aesop, Fiona Waters and Fulvio TestaWalton_Scifi|title=Aesop's Fables|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Everyone knows and loves ''Aesop's Fables''. They're part of our literary tapestry and our everyday lives. We know sour grapes, we know [[Tortoise vs. Hare What Makes This Book So Great: Re- Reading The Rematch! by Preston Rutt and Ben Redlich|the tortoise and the hare]], the boy who cried wolf and so many more. Fiona Waters has retold 60 of the most famous fables in this delightful anthology.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849390495</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewClassics Of Science Fiction And Fantasy|author=Tony Ross|title=My Favourite Fairy Tales|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Tony Ross has picked, retold and illustrated his favourite fairy tales, taking in such classics as ''Rumpelstiltskin'' and ''Beauty and the Beast'', whilst also offering up slightly lesser-known ones like ''The Hedley Kow'', ''The Musicians of Bremen'', ''Sweet Porridge'', ''Prince Hyacinth'' and ''Fairy Gifts''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842709801</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tony Bradman and Tony Ross|title=The Orchard Book of Swords, Sorcerers and SuperheroesJo Walton

|genre=Confident ReadersAnthologies|summary=Jason and the ArgonautsJo Walton has published over ten books, King Arthurseveral of which have been award-winning. On top of that, Aladdinshe has a voracious appetite for books - both as a well-respected writer of original fiction, William Tell, Hercules, Sinbad, St George, Ali Bababut as a well-respected reviewer too. Not only does she have time to do all that, Theseus and Robin Hoodbut she also writes a regular column for Tor. If you love myths and legends as much as [[Top Ten Retellings of Mythscom, Legends on Science Fiction and Fairy Tales|we do]] then those ten heroes will have got your juices flowingFantasy books, and you'll be desperate to dive in to this collection it is these columns that a selection of adventures. It's fantasticwhich are collected here. You'll love it!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408309211</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Children's TrustTennant_Grub|title=The Walrus and the Carpenter Did We Meet on Grub Street?|author=Emma Tennant, Hilary Bailey and Other Favourite PoemsDavid Elliott

|summary=Zadie Smith is best known as Essentially, the three authors (all of whom have long careers in the book industry) revel in the idea of being whining old curmudgeons who miss the good old days of publishing. This unashamed nostalgia provides the author focus of three novels: White Teeth, The Autograph Man the book and On Beauty. She now teaches Creative Writing at Columbia University allows the writers to recount numerous anecdotes from their days in New Yorkthe publishing business. This collection Whilst the primary audience for this book may well be students of creative writing and media studies, it also serves as an interesting exploration of an aspect of modern history: how a once-burgeoning industry is now a mixture shell of literary criticism and journalismits former self, including travel writingmuch like a lot of manufacturing. Because of this, reviews I was disappointed that no space was given to a consideration of how the rise of the e-book and other writing on film Kindle has directly damaged both the sale of books and several pieces about Zadie Smith's familythe potential for new books to be written (fewer real books sold = fewer financial advances paid to writers = fewer books written). Also, and especially her father. It is divided into five sections under given the headings Readingclear love of books as treasured artefacts, Beingthe dismissal of the Harry Potter phenomenon seems truculent, Seeing, Feeling given the impetus the series gave to reading amongst both the young and Rememberingadults.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241142954</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Spike MilliganPenzler_Big|title=The Magical World of Milligan|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Some people you just have to love. It's the law. Spike Milligan was always fantastic, and he's much missed. He's got the perfect mix of nonsense, heart, and surreal humour. He speaks to people Big Book of all ages, and he's just plain lovely. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905264844</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewChristmas Mysteries|author=Carol Ann Duffy|title=New and Collected Poems for ChildrenOtto Penzler (editor)

|summary=Sometimes the title Nostalgia is all the introduction you need: Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy's 'New and Collected Poems for Children'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571219683</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Harry Horse|title=Higglety Pigglety Pop! And Other First Poems|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=A poetry anthology that includes Edward Lear, Spike Milligan, AA Milne, Lewis Carroll and Michael Rosen is immediately worth a look. They're timeless classics that everyone has read and has had read to them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406323144</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Debi Gliori|title=Noisy Poems|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Any book big part of poetry that starts with Spike Milligan and ends with Roger McGough will get the thumbs up from me. Noisy Poems is full of just that: poems about sounds, with trucks honkingChristmas experience, ducks quacking, trains clickety-clacking and shoes squeaking. Itthat's awash with alliteration and rhythm. It's crying out to be read aloud and joined provided in with.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406323195</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=John Foster|title=Twinkle Twinkle Chocolate Bar|rating=4sack-loads by this hefty tome of short stories.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=I was recently subjected to a good 20 minutes of the rude version of Happy Birthday in CatalanSherlock Holmes, even though it was neither my birthday nor am I Catalan. I responded with the ol' squashed tomatoes Hercule Poirot and stew version that we all know Brother Cadfael jostle Morse, Rumpole and love, Vic Warshawski for a very restrained 15 minutes. Twinkle Twinkle Chocolate Bar is space on these tightly packed full of such things. Kids love those sort of rhymespages, while lesser-known and childish adults love 'em too. Whilst Twinkle Twinkle Chocolate Bar isn't exactly rude, it does have a cheeky glint in its eye, a muddy splash on its long since forgotten writers furnish new shoes, and gleeful laughter throughout.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192755811</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Paul B Janeczko and Chris Raschka|title=A Kick In The Head: An Everyday Guide To Poetic Forms|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=As unexpected pleasures for even the subtitle says, A Kick In The Head is an everyday guide to poetic forms. It's a perfect primer to couplets, limericks, acrostics, sonnets, haiku and many more. Each form has a brief explanation, an example, and then a more detailed explanation at the back. It's a wonderful educational most well-read of book for any child (or for any adult who wants to brush up on their basic understanding of poetry)worms.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0763641324</amazonuk>