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• Beth And Chrissi Do Kid-Lit 2019 – NOVEMBER READ – The Worst Witch by Jill Murphy

  

  What’s it all about?:Mildred Hubble is a trainee witch at Miss Cackle’s Academy, and she’s making an awful mess of it. She’s always getting her spells wrong... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Banned Books 2019 – NOVEMBER READ – To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

  

  What’s it all about?:The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it, To Kill A Mockingbird became... Read more

  Posted on 30 December 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Beth and Chrissi Do Kid-Lit 2019 – OCTOBER READ – Just So Stories by Rudyard...

  

  What’s it all about?:Twelve stories about animals, insects, and other subjects include How the Camel Got His Hump. The Butterfly That Stamped, and How the... Read more

  Posted on 23 November 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Banned Books 2019 – OCTOBER READ – The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn by Mark...

  

  What’s it all about?:A nineteenth-century boy from a Mississippi River town recounts his adventures as he travels down the river with a runaway slave,... Read more

  Posted on 18 November 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Beth And Chrissi Do Kid-Lit 2019 – SEPTEMBER READ – I Capture The Castle by Dodi...

  

  What’s it all about?:‘I write this sitting in the kitchen sink…’This is the diary of Cassandra Mortmain, which tells of her extraordinary family and their... Read more

  Posted on 29 October 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Banned Books 2019 – SEPTEMBER READ – The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

  

  What’s it all about?:Could you survive on your own, in the wild, with everyone out to make sure you don’t live to see the morning? Read more

  Posted on 28 October 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Beth And Chrissi Do Kid-Lit 2019 – AUGUST READ – The Royal Rabbits Of London (Th...

  

  What’s it all about?:Life is an adventure. Anything in the world is possible – by will and by luck, with a moist carrot, a wet nose and a slice of mad courage! Read more

  Posted on 04 September 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Banned Books 2019 – AUGUST READ – Whale Talk by Chris Crutcher

  

  What’s it all about?:There’s bad news and good news about the Cutter High School swim team. The bad news is that they don’t have a pool. The good news is that... Read more

  Posted on 02 September 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Beth and Chrissi Do Kid-Lit 2019 – JULY READ – The Dreamsnatcher (Dreamsnatcher...

  

  What’s it all about?:Twelve-year-old Molly Pecksniff wakes one night in the middle of the forest, lured there by a recurring nightmare – the one with the drums... Read more

  Posted on 12 August 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Banned Books 2019 – JULY READ – In The Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak

  

  What’s it all about?:Sendak’s hero Mickey falls through the dark into the Night Kitchen where three fat bakers are making the morning cake. Read more

  Posted on 29 July 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Beth And Chrissi Do Kid-Lit 2019 – JUNE READ – What Katy Did by Susan Coolidge

  

  What’s it all about?:Stubborn and reckless, twelve-year-old Katy Carr really wants to do so many wonderful things in her life. (becoming a graceful young lady i... Read more

  Posted on 10 July 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Banned Books 2019 – JUNE READ – Arming America: The Origins Of A National Gun...

  

  What’s it all about?:Examines the American belief system regarding arms rights, and documenting the rarity of firearms in early America as well as the... Read more

  Posted on 24 June 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Blog Tour – The Space Between Time by Charlie Laidlaw

  

  What’s it all about?:There are more stars in the universe than there are grains of sand on Earth…Emma Maria Rossini appears to be the luckiest girl in the world. Read more

  Posted on 16 June 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Beth And Chrissi Do Kid-Lit 2019 – MAY READ – The Enchanted Wood (The Faraway...

  

  What’s it all about?:Jo, Bessie and Fanny move to the country and find an Enchanted Wood right on their doorstep. In the magic Faraway Tree live the magical... Read more

  Posted on 31 May 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Banned Books 2019 – MAY READ – Crazy Lady by Jane Leslie Conly

  

  What’s it all about?:Increasingly alienated from his widowed father, Vernon joins his friends in ridiculing the neighborhood outcasts’Maxine, an alcoholic... Read more

  Posted on 29 May 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Blog Tour – Never Be Broken (DI Marnie Rome #6) – Sarah Hilary

  

  What’s it all about?:Children are dying on London’s streets. Frankie Reece, stabbed through the heart, outside a corner shop. Others recruited from care homes,... Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Personal Post – Bibliobeth – the End?

  

  Hi everyone! Hope you’re all well. Gosh, I don’t know where to even begin with this post. Here goes…I’m not sure if you’ve noticed but for a little while now... Read more

  Posted on 18 May 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Blog Tour – Death And The Harlot by Georgina Clarke

  

  What’s it all about?:A gripping historical crime debut from an exciting new voice.‘It’s strange, the way fortune deals her hand.’The year is 1759 and London is... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Bitter Orange – Claire Fuller

  

  What’s it all about?:‘A compulsive page-turner. Fuller creates an atmosphere of simmering menace with all the assurance of a latter-day Daphne du Maurier’ The... Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Blog Tour – Worst Case Scenario by Helen Fitzgerald

  

  What’s it all about?:A delicious dark, relentless and chilling psychological thriller by the international bestselling author of The Cry‘The harrowing plot keep... Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE