Showing posts with label children's books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label children's books. Show all posts

Friday, 26 April 2019

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The Tunnels Below Blog Tour - Nadine Wild-Palmer: The Books I Grew Up With



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The Tunnels Below Blog Tour - Nadine Wild-Palmer: The Books I Grew Up With


It's my stop on the blog tour for The Tunnels Below by Nadine Wild-Palmer, and I'm really excited to have debut UKMG author Nadine stopping by to share with us a guest post about the books she read when she was growing up.

Nadine Wild-PalmerThe Books I Grew Up With

"It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like as long as somebody loves you." The Witches, Roald Dahl.

I still can’t read the closing chapters of Roald Dahl’s
The Witches without bursting into tears. After all the thrilling, gorey adventures of in the story it’s the winding down of the closing chapters that still make my heart ache. A good book, a really good book, ends well. You can feel that it is finishing and that you have to say goodbye to characters you have spent several hours or days or, for me, in some cases years with and you are filled instantly with a feeling of nostalgia. The best writing will throw you right back to that place and the feelings you felt the first time you read it, if you were to open the book right here right now.

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Tuesday, 12 February 2019

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"But How Do We Keep Boys Reading?"

But How Do We Keep Boys Reading?

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Today's post is going to be slightly different. Once Upon a Bookcase is primarily a YA book blog, but I want to talk about younger books, though this relates to YA as well. And I'm coming at this in part with my blogger hat on, but also with my children's bookseller hat on.

On Monday 28th Jan, Anne Ursu tweeted a stack of finished copies of her next release The Lost Girl, to share her excitement. The very next day, another author, Will Weaver quote tweeted Ursu saying, "Excellent. But how do we keep boys reading?" When Ursu replied "Pardon me?", Weaver responded how boy readers lag behind girl readers, "what can we do to close the gap? Here's what I've done," including a photo of a stack of his books aimed at boys - co-opting Ursu's moment of excitement to promote his own books.
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