Jacqueline Wilson – The Story of Tracy Beaker (Book Review)

Opening Line(s): My name is Tracy Beaker. I am 10 years 2 months old. My birthday is on 8 May. It’s not fair, because that dopey Peter Ingham has his birthday then too, so we just got the one cake between us. Book Cover Blurb: Tracy is ten years old. She lives in a Children’s Home […]

Remembering BBC’s ‘The Big Read’

One of the blogs I follow is 101books.net written by the excellent Robert Bruce. In 2010 Time Magazine announced their definitive list of the 100 greatest English language novels (since 1923) and Robert decided that as an avid reader he would dedicate most of his limited free time to reading his way through the list. I […]