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Cathy Fisher David Roberts Emily Gravett Greenaway Medal Jo Weaver Lane Smith Michelle Robinson Nicola Davies Picture Book Carousel

Picturebook Carousel: 2017 Greenaway Medal Longlist (1)

This is a particularly exciting year for the Greenaway Medal, with a variety of formats recognised in the top 20, including several non-fiction titles, which is most welcome. I will be doing short reviews of all top 20 titles in the run-up to the shortlist announcement on 16 March, and here is the first installment. …

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5+ 9+ Chris Riddell Cornelia Funke David Roberts ghosts halloween James Preller Johanne Mercier werewolves

FOCUS ON: Halloween titles for independent readers

Here are a few titles for newly independent and more fluent readers which will suit Halloween-themed reading. Arthur and the Witch Johanne Mercier (text) & Clare Elsom (illustrations) Arthur et la sorcière de bout du lac, translated by Daniel Hahn (Phoenix Yard) When Arthur find a secret hoard of blueberries at Picket Lake, he decides to …

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7+ Daren King David Roberts ghosts haunting holidays humour RHCBA testing 2010 Spooky Reads for Halloween

Spooky Reads (2) Frightfully Friendly Ghosties: Ghostly Holler-Day

Daren King (text) & David Roberts (illustrations)(Quercus) After scaring off the coinhabitants – the lives ones – of their house, our frightfully friendly ghosties are back in a new adventure. It’s winter and it is cold so they decide they fancy a holler-day by the sea, where apparently the weather is always nice. They seem …

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