In 2005, the Louvre Museum in Paris began a fascinating and innovative collaboration with the French graphic novel publisher Futuropolis . Wanting to build a bridge between the Louvre art collection and modern readers, the Museum commissioned a series of graphic books by top-calibre authors and illustrators, using its collection as a theme. So […]
Barry Deutsch is the author/illustrator of Hereville, a graphic novel featuring the adventures of Mirka, "yet another troll-fighting 11-year-old Orthodox Jewish girl". And I think that description pretty much says it all…except that I thought Hereville was the most fun, imaginative and just plain fantastical graphic book I've read this year. Here's Barry to answer […]
What's it like to be a young teen and heading towards addiction? Or a twenty-year-old with a full-blown case of alcoholism? Award-winning writer Susan Juby's new memoir Nice Recovery tells of her experiences as a young "drinky-pants" and what recovery was like for her. Susan's talent is that, while she makes us understand and empathize […]
(warning: mild spoilers)Last night I watched the last episode on my new DVD Doctor Who Series 6 Part 1–which arrived a scant week ago and which my family and I tore through–and my head is now dizzy with mysteries solved and unsolved. Steven Moffat, the show's head writer, is a master of intricate […]
Hi there everyone! Today we are hosting a virtual visit with Y.S. Lee, talented author of the Victorian-era mystery The Agency: The Body at the Tower. She's very kindly agreed to answer a few of our burning questions about Mary Quinn, Victorian teen detective, and her world. Here we go! We love Mary's mysterious heritage, […]
If you're a fan of Sherlock Holmes, Nancy Drew or anything in between, check out Y.S. Lee's latest Mary Quinn mystery, The Body at the Tower. The tower of the British Houses of Parliament are being rebuilt as part of a major reconstruction after the fire of 1834. A man falls out of the tower […]
My son and I love picture books that make us laugh. One thing that especially amuses us is when the characters in a picture book notice we're there. There's something about the unexpectedness of it, along with the invitation to respond, that's so entertaining. Here are some of our favourite books for young people which […]
I don't know about the other paren’ts out there, but when I had my children, I cut down on self-care quite a bit. My first child didn't sleep through the night until she was two and a half, and by the time my second was born, I was close to forty and carrying a few […]
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In 2010, BBC radio and the British Museum carried out a project they called "A History of the World". One hundred objects from the British Museum were chosen its Director, Neil MacGregor, and used to tell the story of humanity's journey from prehistory to the modern period. The objects range from stone axes, chopping tools […]