I had a good book shopping expedition yesterday, and after a few wasted expeditions, I needed one. Two girls own books and one annual (with a contribution by Josephine Elder), a few murder mysteries and the next book in a series I'm reading that I'd have been happy to pay full price for, but didn't have to, because charity shops can be wonderful.

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I made it to the final page of the 'Family' section of Saturday's Guardian last night*. Lucy Mangan has reached number 7 in a series about building a good library of children's books, a series in which she described The Secret Garden's Dickon as a proto sex god, which is certainly memorable. I'm tryng to remember whether I have actually, properly ( Read more... )

Nicola and the Viscount: Meg Cabot. Macmillan Children's Books, 2002.

There's an incident in the Chalet School series - bear with me - where a group of younger girls ask a prefect about books that are set in Regency England. Basically they want to learn old-fashioned slang to get around school rules. The elder girl suggests Georgette Heyer over ( Read more... )

Is Meg Cabot the L. M. Montgomery of her generation? In the future, will daughters read their mothers' copies of her books and pass them on to their own daughters? Is there another author who fits that bill ( Read more... )