close
close

Tag: Fantasy Novels

The Storm and the Sea Hawk by Kiran Millwood Hargrave, review: gripping fantasy

Posted on | Posted on Theodore | Leave a Comment on The Storm and the Sea Hawk by Kiran Millwood Hargrave, review: gripping fantasy
The Storm and the Sea Hawk by Kiran Millwood Hargrave, review: gripping fantasy

Kiran Millwood Hargrave’s debut novel, The Girl of Ink & Stars (2016), was published when she was 26. It won the Waterstone’s Book Prize; her subsequent nine books were nominated for the Carnegie Medal three times. For readers who are new to Hargrave, the highly entertaining fantasy series Geomancer would be a good introduction. The […]

These are the greatest children’s authors of all time (and Roald Dahl is definitely not one of them)

Posted on | Posted on Theodore | Leave a Comment on These are the greatest children’s authors of all time (and Roald Dahl is definitely not one of them)
These are the greatest children’s authors of all time (and Roald Dahl is definitely not one of them)

A canon of children’s literature that is fit for the 21st century will therefore reflect the children who read it. It is no exaggeration to point out that audiences have changed since the all-conquering Enid Blyton and her contemporaries wrote predominantly about white, middle-class children in private boarding schools and set their adventures in nostalgically […]