Here are a couple of links:

From Silver Petticoat Review Why you should read Mary Stewart.This feature delves into the appeal of Stewart’s romantic suspense books from the perspective of someone who'd just found them. I started reading them as a teenager and return to them as comfort reads, so I have no objectivity, but the points made here ( Read more... )

Welsh Adventure: Viola Bayley. The Children’s Book Club edition 1968

I had to get this to read! ( Read more... )

Welsh Adventure: Viola Bayley. The Children’s Book Club, 1968

[This is a Welsh review of the above book, the English translation will be posted shortly.]

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Daisy: Susan Warner, Miles & MilesThis is a case where a book didn’t turn out to be quite what I expected. My copy has gold blocks on its front cover and spine and the very type shouts out that from the late nineteenth century. I’d never heard of it or the author, Susan Warnerm before, but presumed it was in the Rosa N. Carey, E. Everett-Green vein ( Read more... )

Here are some links I have meant to post for a good long while:

The Chalet School at War review by Did You Ever Stop to Think

From the same blog, a thought-provoking analysis of the first page of ‘The School at the Chalet’.

Also, a review of Head Girl of the Chalet School

And her Chalet School tag


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A book-related post!

It’s perhaps unfair to compare these two children’s books about two civil wars, but I read them quite close to each other, so the comparison came readily. Irene Hunt wrote ‘Across Five Aprils’ about the American civil war, as experienced by one Jethro Creighton, while Dorothea Moore (whom I've never posted about here before ( Read more... )

Barbed Wire-Keep Out!: Agnes M. Miall Brock Press 1950Isn’t this one of the most brilliant titles for a children’s book ever? It demands that the reader dives in, just like the barbed wire and the injunction to keep out has no influence on the main characters of this adventure ( Read more... )

Angela Has Wings: Peter Ling and Sheilah Ward, A Girl novel, Longacre Press, 1960.

I had to look up to see whether Angela Wells was ( Read more... )

Torridons’ Triumph: Marie Muir Collins 1967This is the first book by Muir that I’ve read - I think there were others by her in the shop where I saw this, but I decided to just buy one as a taster - and it was a really enjoyable and satisfying story. It falls into that sub-genre where a family of youngsters must band together to make enough money to ( Read more... )

Jill Makes Good: Elizabeth Tugwell, Nelson

Of course, such a title begs you to decide whether the author has made good with this book.

Fourteen year old Jill Ross is headed for Cornwall at the start of the story,( Read more... )