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[[Category:Anthologies|*]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1737030942|title=Bag O'Goodies|author=Jo WaltonJolly Walker Bittick|rating=4|genre= Anthologies|summary=Sometimes, you deserve a treat and mine was Jolly Walker Bittick's ''Bag O'Goodies''. I first encountered his writing about a year ago, when I read his [[Cape Henry House by Jolly Walker Bittick|Cape Henry House]], a rollicking tale of 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 short stories. Bittick's writing has matured - and so have his characters. Well... most of them!}}{{Frontpage|isbn=140638853X|title=What Makes Somebody Give This Book So Great: Re-Reading The Classics Of Science Fiction And FantasyHeart a Pen|author=Sophia Thakur
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|summary=Jo Walton has published over ten books, several of which have been award winning. On top Sophia Thakur's debut anthology is a collection of poems thatare all unique, she has a voracious appetite for books - both as a well respected writer of original fictionwhether in relation to their style, but as a well respected reviewer toolength or theme. Not only does she have time to do all thatThe collection is split into four sections, titled 'grow', but she also writes a regular column for Tor.com'wait', on Science Fiction 'break' and Fantasy books'grow again', and it guiding you through a process which is these columns one of the foundations that the anthology is built on. Each section begins with a selection foregrounded title page containing various small pieces of which writing, ranging from a quote by a Nigerian playwright, to African proverbs. This provides a nice introduction to the section before you are collected hereimmersed in the beautifully written and eloquent poems that Thakur has clearly put her heart and soul into.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472111613</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
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|title=You're the Froth On My Soy Cappuccino: Poems for the Present
|author=Don Behrend
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|summary=''You're the Froth On My Soy Cappuccino'' begins with ''A Modern Love Story'':
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=PUP_Rising|title=Burnt TonguesRising Stars: An Anthology of Transgressive Short StoriesNew Young Voices in Poetry|author=Chuck Palahniuk, Dennis Widmyer and Richard ThomasPop Up Projects
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|genre=Short StoriesAnthologies|summary=Saying certain things out loud just don’t sound rightThis collection brings together five emerging voices in poetry. Some things are so disturbing or politically incorrect that you are best off leaving them inside your headAnd despite what the publisher says, or better yet not thinking of them at allI wouldn't personally impose an age restriction on the writing here. When these Each poet uses words are spoken they could lead that will appeal to the sensation of Burnt Tongue; an aftereffect of knowing what you said was wrongmany readers. I found this particularly so with Jay Hulme's poetry. Are you prepared to enter the world of Transgressive Fiction that aims to disturb, alienate, disgust and question?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178329552X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Stevenson_Garden|title=RoguesA Child's Garden of Verses|author=George R R Martin and Gardner Dozois (Editors)Robert Louis Stevenson|rating=3.52
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|summary=George R R Martin is undoubtedly Robert Louis Stevenson was a very versatile writer; he delved deep into the biggest name in modern day fantasy, human psyche when he wrote ''The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Gardner Dozois an American science fiction author Mr Hyde'' but he did not restrict himself to representations of considerable renownthe gothic and the persecuted. Here, the two collect twenty one He also wrote brilliant children's adventure stories by a list of well known such as ''Treasure Island'' and hugely loved authors''Kidnapped'', but, again, he did not restrict himself to prose writing because here he demonstrates his ability to write poetry.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783297190</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Esiri Poem|title=While Wandering - A Walking CompanionPoem for Every Day of the Year|author=Duncan MinshullAllie Esiri|rating=54
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|summary=''While Wandering - A Walking Companion''For those who do not read much poetry, for those who do not know where to start, was first published ten years ago as ''The Vintage Book of Walking''this is a fun and easy commitment to take on. Reprinted and retitled with Reading a poem a stunning new cover by James Jones and Finn Deanday does not take long, mere minutes, and with over three-hundred poems in here there's bound to be a foreword by Robert Macfarlane, the best writer on walking in recent years (in my humble opinion)poem that speaks to each reader directly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009959336X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=A is Amazing!: Poems about FeelingsHerbertson_Wordsworth|authortitle=Wendy Cooling William and Piet Grobler|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse|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 disfavour, and carries a natural eagerness for poetry through to adulthood. But just in case, there are books such as this wonderfully thought-through compilation, that will catch 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=<amazonuk>1847805132</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Dorothy Wordsworth: 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 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 on archives at the Imperial War Museum. The combination of such a respected author, whose most famous (and arguably his best) novel is set 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>}} {{newreview|title=Dead But Not ForgottenMiscellany|author=Charlaine Harris and Toni LP Kelner (Editors)Gavin Herbertson|rating=3.5
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|summary=''Dead But Not Forgotten'' returns to Sookie Stackhouse's world, exploring William Wordsworth was a defining member of the lives and misadventures of some romantic literary era. He was part of the more minor characters in the series. The collection features stories about Pam Ravenscroft, Adele Hale Stackhouse, Luna, Dianthafirst wave, Bubba and many his poetry helped to shape a large part of it. Nature was the other colourful characters from Bon Temps and the wider universe of Sookiekey: existing in nature, finding one's story, written by authors such as Seanan McGuire, Rachel Caine, Nicole Peeler, Christopher Golden own true nature and many morebecoming natural in the process were the driving forces behind it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00GBQXN6K</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Mahfouz_Muslim|title=Stories of World War OneThe Things I Would Tell You: British Muslim Women Write|author=Tony BradmanSabrina Mahfouz
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|summary=July 2014 marks the centenary What does it mean to be British and Muslim? This is a question these writers tackle with stunning clarity. Modern-day British society has a varied sense of the outbreak of the Great War: cultural heritage; it is a war society that has become imprinted on the national consciousness of Britain (is changing and plenty of modern nation-states), partly because of the large numbers of people (mostly men) writing about moving forward as it. I don't mean journalists, who had been covering wars for adds more and more voices to the Victorian publicpopulation, but artists: poets, authors, memoirists it is also one that has an undercurrent of anxiety and paintersfear towards those who are minorities. The poets especially have stamped World War One on collective memorySo this collection displays how all that fear is received; it comes in the form of stereotypical labels and racial prejudice, through countless poetry anthologies, recitals at memorials, and in school classroomswhich are themes eloquently reproduced here.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846689252</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Holland Cheap|title=Of Lions and Unicorns: A Lifetime of Tales View from the Master StorytellerCheap Seats|author=Michael MorpurgoBarry Holland
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|summary=Some of today's top authors have come together A little bit about Barry Holland: he was born in Newport, South Wales, to retell classic tales working- from fairy stories class parents. He loves rugby and his son - his son is his favourite rugby player, which is just as it should be. He is a qualified engineer but is unable to Victorianwork because of mental ill-era fictionhealth. As usual with this kind All of anthology, itthese things feed into ''s a fairly hit-or-miss affair, but View from the hits here are so strong that theyCheap Seats''re well worth picking up the , which is a collection of poems and imaginings as vivid and immediate and striking as you could hope for. Barry sounds like a thoroughly nice bloke and his book forwas a pleasure to read. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472210522</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris MossMarshall EFT|title=Smoothly From Harrow: A Compendium for the London CommuterThe Book of English Folk Tales|author=Sybil Marshall and John Lawrence
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|summary=If you want From ghosts to get witches, to giants and fairies, ''behindThe Book of English Folk Tales'' what commuting is really like - not in an academic or a political way, but from the perspective fascinating collection of having your hand through a strap stories retold by social historian and wishing that the man next to you wasn't ''quite'' so enamoured folklorist Sybil Marshall. Out of Brut aftershave print for over three decades, this beautiful new clothbound edition is complete with wood- then you need a travel journalist. Step forward (but mind the gap), Chris Moss, who writes regularly for the ''Daily Telegraph'' engraved illustrations by John Lawrence and has done is sure to capture the same for the ''Guardian'', ''Independent'' and various magazines. Most importantly, he's commuted from Camberwell, Camden, Hackney, Harrow, Herne Hill, Surbiton and Tooting. Personally, I think he deserves attention of a medalnew generation of lovers of folklore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905131623</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Trotman_Winter|title=The Time Traveller's AlmanacWinter: A Book for the Season|author=Anne VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeerFelicity Trotman (editor)
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|summary=From HThis seasonal anthology contains a nice mixture of poetry, nature and travel pieces, and excerpts from longer works of fiction.G Wells to ''Doctor Who''Felicity Trotman, there is something about a good time-travel story that freelance editor and member of the English Civil War Society, has arranged the power to ignite the imagination in a way unique to the genre. Perhaps it is due to the fact that when dealing with the subject of time travel, literally material into three sections: 'The Old Year'anything is possible, ''. WellChristmas, almost anything...apart from going back in time Sacred and killing your GrandfatherSecular', which we know would cause an almighty paradox and probably destroy the universe.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781853908</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Stuff I've Been Reading|author=Nick Hornby|rating=4The New Year'.5|genre=Anthologies|summary=I am lucky enough This creates an appropriate sense of chronological progression and also serves to be typing this while sitting on make Christmas the fifth floor heart of the magnificent new Library of Birminghambook. Coming in at a whopping £189 million the burghers of the second city certainly haven't skimped in trying to create a 21st century centre of learning. 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>
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{{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)
|rating=3.5
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|summary=C. Auguste Dupin is often regarded as the first fictional detective With everything from dragons to mysterious crimes, voice-stealing witches to time travel, and at the very least Edgar Allan Poe’s character was the blueprint for many sleuths magical worlds to comefirst performances of world-famous ballets, most notably Sherlock Holmes. Dupin this is an eccentric genius from Paris whose use a collection 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 exploitsthat delights from start to finish. ''Beyond Rue Morgue'' contains nine Anthologies of short stories (in addition to the original Poe tale) by various authors and gives many different takes on the same character can sometimes fall flat, with one or influenced by him. From samurai assassins two good ones and the apocalypse to an agoraphobic distant relative of Dupin attempting to solve then a murder without even leaving her home; the different writers all take the intriguing character to places we wouldn’t expect and the creativity bunch of mediocre fillers, but this collection has no weak links...all keeps the character fresh from story to story.|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''stories are good, sourced from a number and most of short story magazines; 'Granta', 'Shadows and Tall Trees', 'Unthology' and 'The Edinburgh Review' them are just some of the publications in which these pieces were to be seen firstbrilliant. If asked to identify a red thread between the components of Nicholas Royle’s anthology, I would say that felt entirely caught up in each short storyindividual world as I read, everything is left to simmer under loving the surface. There is a frustration brought about by the lack of clarity in every short story, which to me is a reflection of just how unclear the most seismic of situations may be to any individual involvedvaried and extremely likeable heroines throughout.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907773479</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Malcolm GladwellPhinn_Virgin|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 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 know, or are known by a dog then itVirgin Mary's 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 and cartoons about dogs, or have a cast of writers which could put many a bookshop to shame.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>043402239X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Angela Macmillan |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>}} {{newreviewGot Nits|author=Stephanie Tillotson and Penny Thomas|title=All Shall be WellGervase Phinn
|rating=4.5
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|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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mary BeardAyrton_Pasaran|title=All in a Don's DayNo Pasaran: Writings from the Spanish Civil War|author=Pete Ayrton (editor)
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|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 arguing that the conflict has long been written about from the pages point of her TLS blog. In her latest collection she bemoans the parlous current state view 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 about postgraduate job-seekersinternational brigades.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685362</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=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 Edwards_Manor|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]], [[:CategoryMurder at the Manor: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 Country House Mysteries (and it wouldBritish Library Crime Classics). 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 of original stories. So don't expect a collection or compendium, but rather an anthology of tales that have entranced and inspired these writers in their own childhoods – magic beans indeed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857560433</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Christopher Golden Martin Edwards (Editoreditor)|title=Monster's Corner
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|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>
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{{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>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David LodgeCleeves_Murder|title=The Art of FictionStarlings and Other Stories|author=Ann Cleeves (editor)
|rating=4
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|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>
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{{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
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|summary=With ''The Princess For a small book, a small review – this is a quite delightful little thing, about which not a lot can be said. It is a gift book pure and simple, much in the Peaway that Pooh Bear was a little simple at times ('', ''The Ugly DucklingPooh… thought how wonderful it would be to have a Real Brain which could tell you things''). With it comes a simple blurb, ''The Tinderbox''and almost instructions that it is for giving, ''The Little Match Girl''and there is a space for a loving dedication at the beginning, ''The Emperor's New Clothes''which is again only apt, ''The Tin Soldier''as it is all about love. Love of honey, ''The Swineherd''love in friendship, ''The Nightingale'' and ''The Little Mermaid''love of all various kinds, this is a must-have compendium of classic fairy talesbut just love. You It can't really go wrong with Hans Christian Andersen's best, can help but make you? Martin Waddell and Emma Chichester Clark have not just churned out the old classics, but they've given them an amazing freshness and vibrancymost warm-hearted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846169380</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Penny DannWalton_Scifi|title=The Orchard What Makes This Book Of Nursery Rhymes For Your Baby|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse|summary=All your favourite nursery rhymes are here, from Hickory Dickory Dock, through Little Bo Peep and Three Blind Mice, to Sing A Song Of Sixpence. With over sixty nursery rhymes to choose from, all the big names are presented in a beautiful compendium that you'll treasure for years.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408304589</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Aesop, Fiona Waters and Fulvio Testa|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 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
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|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>
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{{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
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|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>
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{{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)
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|summary=Sometimes the title Nostalgia is all a big part of the introduction you need: Poet Laureate Carol Ann DuffyChristmas experience, and that's 'New provided in sack-loads by this hefty tome of short stories. Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot and Brother Cadfael jostle Morse, Rumpole and Vic Warshawski for space on these tightly packed pages, while lesser-known and long since forgotten writers furnish new and Collected Poems unexpected pleasures for Children'even the most well-read of book worms.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571219683</amazonuk>
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