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“I loved this and the other Pippi books as a child. They were a favourite from my trips to the local library every Saturday morning. Pippi is simply joyful. She is curious and courageous, creative and kind. She doesn’t worry about the small things like matching stockings or tidy hair. She doesn’t blindly follow convention but is very much her own person. She makes mistakes but finds her way through them. Looking back she was perhaps an early female role model for me! She taught me early on that I don’t need to follow conventional paths. That’s the power of fiction.” Read more...
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I am a book. I am a portal to the universe.
by Stefanie Posavec & Miriam Quick (illustrator) -
Harry Potter: the Complete Series
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The Island at the End of Everything
by Kiran Millwood Hargrave -
The Lorax
by Dr Seuss -
Watership Down
by Richard Adams -
The Secret Garden
by Frances Hodgson Burnett