Children's Book Round up for Literary Review

Here is my latest children's book round up for Literary Review. The featured books are:

The Colour of the Sun by David Almond
The Family Tree by Mal Peet
Little Liar by Julia Gray
The Surface Breaks by Louise O'Neill
The Sword of Ice and Fire by John Matthews
McTavish Goes Wild by Meg Rosoff
The Boy Who Grew Dragons by Andy Shepherd
The Story of Tantrum O'Furrily by Cressida Cowell
Square by Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen

- Wizards & Werewolves

Hello there, I've done a mini-round up of children's books for Literary Review this month, featuring The Explorer by Katherine Rundell, The Wizards of Once by Cressida Cowell, Curse of the Werewolf Boy by Chris Priestley, and Behowl the Moon.



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Christmas Children's Round up in Literary Review

Here's my twice yearly round up of the best children's books for that excellent rag, Literary Review. Read it here. It features:

Beck by Mal Peet & Meg Rosoff
The Call by Peadar O'Guilin
The Speed of Darkness by Catherine Fisher
The Song from Somewhere Else by A F Harrold
There May Be a Castle by Piers Torday
The Secret of Nightingale Wood by Lucy Strange
The Creeping Shadow by Jonathan Stroud
The Royal Rabbits of London by Simon Sebag Montefiore and Santa Montefiore

Check out the July issue of Literary Review for my children's book round up, featuring:

The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge
Arsenic for Tea by Robin Stevens
The White Umbrella by Brian Sewell
Pike by Anthony McGowan
The Dreamsnatcher by Abi Elphinstone
An Island of Our Own by Sally Nicholls
The Wordsmith by Patricia Forde
Beasts of Olympus by Lucy Coats
Julius Zebra by Gary Northfield
Apocalypse Bow Wow by James Proimos III
Uncle Gobb and the Dread Shed by Michael Rosen
The Story of King Lear by Melania G Mazzucco.

June Literary Review out now

What ho! It's that lovely time of the month again - the day Literary Review drops through your letterbox. Yes, the June issue is out now - and guess what? There's something really exciting in it - yes, that's right, it's a lost novel by James Joyce! Oh, no, sorry. It's not. It's my biannual children's round up. Still, that's fun, isn't it?

It features reviews of: Melvin Burgess' The Hit, Gillian Cross's After Tomorrow, Piers Torday's The Last Wild, Audrey Niffeneger's Raven Girl, Terence Blacker's The Twyning, Mary Hooper's The Disgrace of Kitty Grey, William Sutcliffe's The Wall, and F E Higgins's The Phenomenals: A Tangle of Traitors.

I'd suggest that you go and buy it now. Not to mention for the other toothsome treats in the mag.