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• March 2015 Newsletter
  ...ws from the site. We promise never to pass your details on to anyone else. In fact... we won't even tell each other. ...n but who, in person, was kind and funny and twinkly, without a nasty bone in his body. We are all a little bit less without him.
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• Dork Diaries: Once Upon a Dork (Book 8) by Rachel Renee Russell
  ...t something is dodgeball, which bangs her on the head so much she wakes up in a sheer fantasy world, where her BFFs are Goldilocks and Red Riding Hood, t ...ill writing everything up? It's only at that stage you realise the 'Once' in the title refers to the one-day only nature of the story as much as it does
  4 KB (676 words) - 12:12, 23 April 2018
• Lulu and the Chocolate Wedding by Posy Simmonds
  ...ould be chocolate. Because who doesn't love chocolate? Lulu certainly does in this story. ...l world with dreamy fantasies that have a touch of [[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll and Sir John Tenniel]] to them.
  3 KB (606 words) - 09:53, 18 April 2018
• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Paul Stewart And Chris Riddell
  ...matter that some younger readers won't get all the allusions and parodies in the 'Muddle Earth' series?''' ...t your ideas from?' Chris gets his best ideas in the shower. Paul gets his in the bath. It must be something to do with the water.
  5 KB (816 words) - 17:28, 19 September 2011
• The Land of Neverendings by Kate Saunders
  ...ough such a place becomes Emily's safe haven after the death of her sister in this short yet bitter-sweet novel. ...Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe'', the [[J K Rowling's Harry Potter Books in Chronological Order|Harry Potter series]] and [[http://www.thebookbag.co.uk
  4 KB (614 words) - 08:59, 25 April 2018
• The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There by Catherynne M Valente
  ...aring along with people's shadows. Once again she must gather her courage in both hands and set off on a quest. ...n children grow a heart, and when at last the summons comes, she finds her adventures are far more complex than they were before.
  4 KB (777 words) - 12:13, 1 October 2020
• Costa Book Awards 2015
  ...be familiar with the eerie, unreal atmosphere of her books. Mysteries lurk in the shadows, perplexing and sometimes menacing her characters, and the stra |title=A God in Ruins
  9 KB (1,450 words) - 10:46, 31 January 2024
• The Search for WondLa by Tony DiTerlizzi
  |summary=In part one of this trilogy, we meet twelve-year-old Eva Nine, who has never s ...ver seen another human being and who has been brought up by a kindly robot in an underground home. Right from the very first pages we suspect things are
  5 KB (852 words) - 16:11, 11 March 2018
• Lady Friday (The Keys to the Kingdom) by Garth Nix
  ...trength in a wonderfully tense book. Great world-building that doesn't get in the way of pace and tension. Recommended for all young fans of fantasy. ...maxima culpa, because these books are big - and by big I mean '''big''' - in the playground. Everybody knows them. My older son is on to teen and adult
  6 KB (979 words) - 16:08, 9 October 2020
• Newest Short Stories Reviews
  ...t. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand. ...100 stories are super short. None is more than 300 words. You can read one in a flash.''
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