Recommendations from our site
“It is a book I find I can reread. It’s not just a book about Matilda, this wonderful heroine, it is also what Roald Dahl says about reading and imagination and books being like ships, books being like lights. In another writer’s hands these ideas could seem sentimental but with Roald Dahl, who is never sentimental and who is always on that edge of danger and always has his characters on those edges of danger, there is never any sense of sentiment.” Read more...
Kiran Millwood Hargrave, Children's Author
Our most recommended books
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Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë -
Reckless: The Petrified Flesh
Cornelia Funke, translated by Oliver Latsch -
Fourteen Wolves: A Rewilding Story
by Catherine Barr & Jenni Desmond (illustrator) -
I am a book. I am a portal to the universe.
by Stefanie Posavec & Miriam Quick (illustrator) -
Harry Potter: the Complete Series
by J.K. Rowling -
The Island at the End of Everything
by Kiran Millwood Hargrave