Next week all the residents at Playing by the Book Towers are decamping to Edinburgh for a few days of mischief and mayhem (involving lots of harps and dancing, cats and cakes) and so it’s especially enjoyable for us to … Continued
Today’s poem in my girl’s Poetree Calendar is The Cat and The Moon by W. B. Yeats, which I discovered in The Moon Spun Round: W. B. Yeats for Children, edited by Noreen Doody (@noreen_doody) and illustrated by Shona Shirley … Continued
With a good-heartedness and open-eyed optimism free of cynicism, echoing classic books from an earlier generation, James Nicol‘s début novel, The Apprentice Witch combines immense comfort-reading with a bewitchingly perfect dose of mystery, suspense and magic. Despite failing to graduate … Continued