Christmas Children's Books Round-up for Literary Review

As sure as eggs are eggs, here comes my 94th Children's Book Round up for that estimable organ, Literary Review. You can read it here. Featured books are:

Dark Peak by Marcus Sedgwick

The Chime Seekers by Ross Montgomery

The Red Gloves and Other Stories by Catherine Fisher

Utterly Dark and the Face of the Deep by Philip Reeve

Sisters of the Lost Marsh by Lucy Strange

The Shadows of Rookhaven by Padraig Kenny

Fireborn by Aisling Fowler.

Literary Review Christmas Children's Books Round Up

I've been reviewing children's books for Literary Review for about 15 years now... and it never fails to please me how many powerful and wonderful books there are. I wish I had space to cover more. This year, I've reviewed:

 

The Monsters of Rookhaven by Padraig Kenny

The Midnight Guardians by Ross Montgomery

Voyage of the Sparrowhawk by Natasha Farrant

I, Ada by Julia Gray

The Midnight Swan by Catherine Fisher

The Haunting of Aveline Jones by Phil Hickes

The Great Godden by Meg Rosoff 

You can read the review here, but do get the December/January issue - a bumper double one. 

One other small item of news: I received the CD audioboook of How to Teach Classics to Your Dog. I always enjoy the physical versions, rather than the digital ones - somehow it makes a more satisfying experience to load the CDs into the machine. My lurcher, obviously, is already listening...

Literary Review Children's Book Christmas Round Up

Here's my Christmas children's book round up for Literary Review.

It features Sally Gardner's Invisible in a Bright Light, Frances Hardinge's Deeplight, Hilary McKay's A Time of Green Magic, Catherine Fisher's The Velvet Fox, Alison Moore's Sunny and the Hotel Splendid, Chris Riddell's Guardians of Magic, and Ben Manley and Emma Chichester Clark's The Misadventures of Frederick.

Short Children's Book Round up for Literary Review: October

Here's a link to my short young adult / children's books round up for the October issue of Literary Review, featuring: Mr Godley's Phantom by Mal Peet; The Lost Witch by Melvin Burgess; and The Clockwork Crow by Catherine Fisher.

Literary Review summer children's book round up 2014

Chairete, (yes, I've just been to Greece): Here are the books reviewed in my summer round up of children's books for Literary Review.

The Islands of Chaldea by Diana Wynne Jones,
Tale of a Tail by Margaret Mahy,
The Box of Red Brocade by Catherine Fisher,
The Children of the King by Sonya Hartnett,
Poppy by Mary Hooper
The Blood List by Sarah Naughton,
The Night Raid by Caroline Lawrence,
Brilliant by Roddy Doyle,
Never Ending by Martyn Bedford,
The Ultimate Truth by Kevin Brooks,
Echo Boy by Matt Haig.

Dec / Jan Literary Review Children's Round Up

I've done my biannual children's round up for The Literary Review. It features:

The Diviners by Libba Bray
Scramasax by Kevin Crossley-Holland
Maggot Moon by Sally Gardner
The Traitors by Tom Becker
The Obsidian Mirror by Catherine Fisher
The False Prince by Jennifer A Nielsen
The Whizz Pop Chocolate Shop by Kate Saunders
Phantom Pirates by Daren King
The Further Tale of Peter Rabbit by Emma Thompson
Grimm Tales for Young and Old by Philip Pulllman

It's in the Dec/Jan issue of Literary Review,which is packed with other fun things - a piece by Edmund de Waal on Michael Cardew; a poem by Alice Oswald; the Bad Sex in Fiction Report, of course; and the usual selection of thought-provoking and witty articles.