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Saturday, 25 February 2023

World Book Day special - The Time Tunnellers step into the shoes of a favourite character

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Happy World Book Day everyone! We’ve got some great news. We’re thrilled to be able to announce that we have a new member of the team! Autho...
Tuesday, 14 February 2023

The Victorian Can-Do Spirit

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  What a can-do bunch the Victorians were! I decided to return to the Victorian age in my latest book Rivet Boy for a whole lot of reaso...
Saturday, 11 February 2023

Children At War by Vanessa Harbour

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With history we often talk about silent voices – those who have no voice and who had no chance to tell their story. Children could be percei...
Wednesday, 1 February 2023

Girl power, gladiator-style by Ally Sherrick

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One of my favourite movies of all time is Gladiator . The multi Oscar-winning film, directed by Ridley Scott, stars Russell Crowe as wronged...
Wednesday, 25 January 2023

The Windermere Children: The story of 300 child Holocaust survivors who came to the Lake District

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In 1945 the people of Lakeland welcomed three hundred child Holocaust Survivors into their community. Lake Windermere (photo Susan Brownrigg...
Thursday, 19 January 2023

From Guan Yin to Xuanzang - a road trip through Chinese myth and history by Maisie Chan

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I’m Maisie Chan, the author of award-winning Danny Chung Does Not Do Maths . I’m going to chat with you today about a couple of books - Keep...
Friday, 13 January 2023

Catching the Post by Catherine Randall

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One of the things I used to associate with those quiet days after Christmas was having to write thank you letters. Before computers and smar...