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Brambly Hedge: The Secret Staircase by Jill Barklem
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Brambly Hedge: The Secret Staircase by Jill Barklem

Posted on December 4, 2019 by tygertale • 1 Comment

Brambly Hedge is an English Arcadia suffused with the spirit of Beatrix Potter and Arthur Rackham. The Secret Staircase is the fifth story in the series, and the second to feature a winter setting. Jill Barklem’s work is famously intricate and impressively well researched. She spent five years looking at the landscape around her home … Continue reading →

Brambly Hedge: The Secret Staircase by Jill Barklem
Advent Calendar

Brambly Hedge: The Secret Staircase by Jill Barklem

Posted on December 8, 2016 by tygertale • 2 Comments

Brambly Hedge is an English Arcadia suffused with the spirit of Beatrix Potter and Arthur Rackham. The Secret Staircase is the fifth story in the series, and the second to feature a winter setting. Jill Barklem’s work is famously intricate and impressively well researched. She spent five years looking at the landscape around her home … Continue reading →

The Way to Write for Children by Joan Aiken
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The Way to Write for Children by Joan Aiken

Posted on July 25, 2016 by tygertale • 12 Comments

  In 1982 Joan Aiken was asked to write a practical guide on the art of writing children’s books. From the first line it is clear that she wasn’t entirely sold on this concept (‘There is no one way to write for children’), but concedes that there are many practical things that a new writer can … Continue reading →

Goldilocks by Raymond Briggs
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Goldilocks by Raymond Briggs

Posted on September 24, 2012 by tygertale • 2 Comments

Original Bad Girl Goldilocks wasn’t always so young. The first written version by Robert Southey describes her variously as an impudent, foul-mouthed, ugly, dirty, vagrant old woman who needed locking up. The Goldilocks handed down to Raymond Briggs for inclusion in the 1972 Fairy Tale Treasury was the one written by Flora Annie Steele in … Continue reading →

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Posted on June 14, 2012 by tygertale • Leave a comment

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