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Eat Your People! Just what do children taste like?
8 Sep 2016

Eat Your People! Just what do children taste like?

by Zoe | posted in: David Wojtowycz, Lou Kuenzler | 6

I’m glad there are parents on this planet who’ve got children who will eat octopus and anchovies and olives. I can only bow down in awe of them for my kids are the sort whose culinary world is very much … Continued

Family life, Food, Humour, Manners, Monsters
The Beginning Woods
30 Aug 2016

The Beginning Woods

by Zoe | posted in: Malcolm McNeill | 7

And suddenly all that’s left is a pile of clothes, the person within them gone, just like that. The stuff of stories? Oh yes, indeed. So how can it be happening here in the real world? Abrupt, unexplained disappearances – … Continued

Balloons, Books / Libraries, Bookshops, Dragons, Fairy Stories, Family life, Fostering, Imagination, Science, Trees
Can I Build Another Me?
23 May 2016

Can I Build Another Me?

by Zoe | posted in: Shinsuke Yoshitake | 6

In Can I Build Another Me? by Shinsuke Yoshitake, a young boy comes up with a master plan to avoid doing his chores: he spends all his pocket money on a robot to take his place. “From now on, you’re … Continued

Bookmaking, Books in translation, Different perspectives, Family life, Japan, Learning about the world, Philosophy, Robots

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