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April 05, 2016

Enid Blyton's Malory Towers?

April 05, 2016/ Mary-Rose MacColl

Enid Blyton is dead not only in a literary professor’s head. She’s more like a Monty Python Norwegian blue parrot kind of dead, deceased, late, no more. She died in 1968, and I suspect hasn’t written anything since. How then can she be releasing books as recently as 2009?

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April 05, 2016/ Mary-Rose MacColl/
Enid Blyton, Malory Towers, reading, books, children's books
September 01, 2013

Thank goodness for book clubs

September 01, 2013/ Mary-Rose MacColl
Thank goodness for book clubs

Books have become something of a cottage industry in my lifetime, or perhaps they’ve always been a cottage industry and I only just noticed.

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September 01, 2013/ Mary-Rose MacColl/
books, bookclubs, reading
June 23, 2013

How not to get children reading or why Superman and Andy Griffiths are superheroes

June 23, 2013/ Mary-Rose MacColl
How not to get children reading or why Superman and Andy Griffiths are superheroes

Hmph, I thought, books about poo and ancient Egypt hardly count towards developing a literary sensibility.

 

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June 23, 2013/ Mary-Rose MacColl/
andy griffiths, ivan southall, kids, reading, Superman, Dr Seuss, Children's Book Council
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