18.— From the age of 8 to 12 a mobile library stops outside your house. You remember the smell of dust and rubber and paper, and the ridges of wood that edge the shelves to stop the books from sliding out. You borrow a book about boys marooned in the jungle who survive by buildingContinue reading “…a life in libraries”
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The New Children’s Laureate
Malorie Blackman has been appointed as the new Waterstones Children’s Laureate, a two year post that will see her banging the drum for children’s literature, with a special focus on encouraging reading throughout the age groups. One of Blackman’s best known works is the Noughts and Crosses trilogy, set in a dystopian world where theContinue reading “The New Children’s Laureate”
Sally Gander 