Features and Opinion Pieces

Articles: Commentary, Journalism, Essays

  • Friends: A Kiddie Cult. On pre-teens watching `Friends'

    The Times

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  • What exactly is a children's book?

    The Times

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  • Go on, give it a try (On summer reading lists)

    The Times

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  • Short profile of Carnegie Medal-winner Mal Peet

    The Times

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  • Dahl’s Stern Morality Gives His Work The Edge

    The Times Online

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  • A Good Way To Tell Tales Out of School (Prince Charles's Storyquest initiative)

    The Times

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  • Why Blyton was another breed: Rowling and Blyton compared

    The Telegraph

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  • On Philip Pullman winning the Carnegie of Carnegies

    The Times Online

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  • How do we tell the children?: writing for children about the Holocaust

    The Telegraph

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  • One foot in the past

    New Statesman

  • Take it as read: on film adaptations

    The Times

  • Why making children laugh is a serious business

    The Telegraph

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  • Harry Potter's fame: how references to Potter have become embedded in popular culture

    The Telegraph

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  • From Alice's Wonderland to a Roman Wonderwall: a children's books tour of the Northeast

    The Telegraph

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  • Fame beyond the grave: writers who made their mark posthumously

    The Telegraph

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  • Top 100 Children's Books of the past ten years

    The Sunday Times

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  • The renaissance of Beatrix Potter's great rival

    The Telegraph

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  • Are the days of Enid Blyton-bashing over?

    The Telegraph

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  • What's in a shoe? Shoes in fairy tales and children's books

    The Telegraph

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  • Now or Neverland: Peter Pan and the Myth of Eternal Youth

    Books For Keeps

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  • Nicolette Jones's 100 Best Children's Books of the past 10 years

    The Sunday Times

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  • Nicolette Jones Recommends: spooky books for Halloween

    The Sunday Times Online

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  • Nicolette Jones Recommends: Winnie-the-Pooh is 90

    The Sunday Times Online

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  • Children's apps: 'Technology interferes with the story in most apps'

    The Guadrian

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Speeches, Blogs, and Event Feedback

  • Toeing Plimsoll's Line: The Unexpected Consequences of Writing a Book

    Royal Literary Fund Showcase

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  • Eleanor Farjeon Award speech as guest speaker

    Book Brunch

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  • Feedback from 'Children's Book Question Time' event

  • The Apprentice: An Idiot's Guide to Picturebooks

  • Captain's blog #1 from the voyage of the Ever After

    Story Museum Oxford

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  • Captain's blog #2 from the voyage of the Ever After

    Story Museum Oxford