We have been thinking about our favourite authors and what was their first ever published story. The story that launched them into literary fame. As there are many classic authors we would love to cover, we are going to split this into a series of blog posts. We will start with some of our own […]
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The Rise and Rise of the Superhero.
By Verity Bird. It seems we’ve always looked for heroes, ever since the flawed deities of ancient Greece but don’t worry this isn’t a history lesson … ok maybe just a little. Since the Modern-Age of comic books, we’ve seen our mainstream caped crusaders suffer more acutely with the human condition. We’ve seen Iron-Man struggle […]
75th Anniversary of The Famous Five
Reading is a fundamental part of a child’s development and one of the greatest exponents of getting children to read was Enid Blyton, who wrote over 600 books in her time and has sold an estimated 600 million copies of her books, quite amazing. This year marks the 75th Anniversary of the publication of […]