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The Book That Made Me: James Mayhew 17/07/19
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
(3 reviews with an average rating of 4 out of 5)
Walker Illustrated Classics
Publisher: Walker Books
Review
When Alice falls down a rabbit hole into a strange land inhabited by talking rabbits, smoking caterpillars and grinning cats, she finds herself undergoing several challenges both physically, intellectually and emotionally, as she tries to find her way back home.
Written in 1865, Carroll's surreal and strange world continues to delight and mystify children and adults alike with its anthropomorphic animals, logical puzzles and wacky songs.
This lovely edition illustrated by Helen Oxenbury won the Kate Greenaway Medal in 1999.
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14 of the best queens in fiction
It's the Queen's 90th birthday, which is pretty impressive - and she is already our longest-serving monarch. Children's books are full of varied and colourful portrayals of queens: some wield Evil Powers, while others save the day in interesting ways. Nearly all are characters you'll find hard to forget.
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Helen Oxenbury: a lifetime in books
Helen Oxenbury won our Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018. She's been illustrating children's books for most of her adult life and has won countless awards. How many childhoods would be changed forever without memories of her drawings for We're Going On A Bear Hunt or her classic board books for babies?
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Ten books made into films
It's notoriously difficult to get it right when adapting books onto the screen. Here are some of our favourites.
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David Walliams's Britain’s Favourite Children’s Book
Over the Christmas period David Walliams looked at Britain's Favourite Children's Books.
What you thought...
Average rating:
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Ken Leung, Hong Kong, 19 August 2015
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I liked this book because she drank something and grew really small and it was really funny, because she was a really tiny weeny person. I wish I was a tiny weeny person because you can see fairies and be the size to play with them. I didn't like the part where she grew really big because she hit her head on the big roof of the house.
Princess Astajer, 27 September 2014
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This was the first book I ever enjoyed reading at School.
Tatiana Toast, kent, 25 September 2014
I love this book so much that I want to read it again and again.