Yatterings

The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography have added Joan Aiken (of the fabulous Wolves of Willoughby Hall fame), Anthony Buckeridge (of the Jennings school boy stories) and Norman Thelwell (whose pony images are to die laughing for) to the online version. All of them died in 2004.
I believe that if your local library has an [...]

Brian Selznick, whose The Invention of Hugo Cabret (Amazon) won the Caldecott Medal earlier this month, is that wonderful of beings: the slightly off-centre obsessed geek and it shows in his great novel. Hugo - an orphan, thief and clockmaker - lives in the train station in Paris in anonymity when he meets a mysterious [...]