Emily Bearn

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Shakespeare’s fairies descend into civil war in a magical new novel

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Emily Bearn

OpinionEmily BearnWed, April 16, 2025 at 12:15 PM UTC3 min readOberon and Titania’s quarrel over the changeling boy in A Midsummer Night’s Dream remains one of literature’s most infamous custody disputes: “Why should Titania cross her Oberon?” the fairy king pleads. “I do but beg a little changeling boy, / To be my henchman.” The queen eventually caves in, and gives the boy up.
Shakespeare's fairies descend into civil war in a magical new novel

1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Emily Bearn

Oberon and Titania's quarrel over the changeling boy in A Midsummer Night's Dream remains one of literature's most infamous custody disputes: "Why should Titania cross her Oberon?" the fairy king pleads. "I do but beg a little changeling boy, / To be my henchman." The queen eventually caves in, and gives the boy up.
Buy your grandchildren this masterful tale of Blitz Britain

2 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Emily Bearn

Geraldine McCaughrean has written 170 books. She has won the Carnegie Medal twice and the Whitbread Children's Book Award three times. A generation ago, her children's novels such as A Pack of Lies (1988) made her a household name. Today's young reader, alas, is far less likely to have heard of her than they are of celebrity authors such as David Walliams. If so, this superb historical novel would be a fine place to start.
Need Shakespeare cut down to size? Ask Michael Rosen

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Emily Bearn

OpinionNeed Shakespeare cut down to size? Ask Michael RosenWed, April 2, 2025 at 2:00 PM UTCChris Riddell’s illustration of a song in As You Like It (detail)Shakespeare has inspired so many abridged editions for children that the choice can seem overwhelming.
Need Shakespeare cut down to size? Ask Michael Rosen

3 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Emily Bearn

Shakespeare has inspired so many abridged editions for children that the choice can seem overwhelming. In the last couple of years alone, Michael Morpurgo's Tales from Shakespeare (2023) has competed with bumper new retellings by Anna Milbourne and Angelica McAllister, and last April Emily Sutton illustrated a children's edition of the First Folio, in which Hamlet was reduced to 12 pages. But Michael Rosen's Pocket Shakespeare, for readers aged 9-12, promises something different.
A feelgood graphic novel to keep children riveted

1 month ago | msn.com | Emily Bearn

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This feel-good graphic novel will keep children riveted

1 month ago | telegraph.co.uk | Emily Bearn

The author and illustrator Liz Pichon is best known for her Tom Gates books, a series of fictionalised diaries which since 2011 have chronicled the misadventures of an endearing but unruly schoolboy and his long-suffering sister Delia. In the words of Michael Rosen, the series will appeal to anyone who "likes to wind up their sibling" - and the 24 books have sold 16 million copies.
A feelgood graphic novel to keep children riveted

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Emily Bearn

The author and illustrator Liz Pichon is best known for her Tom Gates books, a series of fictionalised diaries which since 2011 have chronicled the misadventures of an endearing but unruly schoolboy and his long-suffering sister Delia. In the words of Michael Rosen, the series will appeal to anyone who “likes to wind up their sibling” – and the 24 books have sold 16 million copies.
Think you're an expert on gnomes? This book will change everything

1 month ago | telegraph.co.uk | Emily Bearn

The sartorial image of the garden gnome - once so maligned that the RHS banned it from the Chelsea Flower Show - has greatly improved since it emerged that the King has one at Highgrove. At the same time, the gnome in literature has been undergoing its own reinvention.
Jessie Burton tries her hand at children's fantasy

1 month ago | telegraph.co.uk | Emily Bearn

Jessie Burton is known for bestselling novels including The Miniaturist (2014), set in 17th-century Amsterdam, and Medusa (2021), a young-adult book which retold the story of Medusa's exile by turning one of Greek mythology's most contested figures into an empowered heroine for the modern age. Hidden Treasure is Burton's first novel for children - and it contains the same combination of warmth and slow-boil suspense that have made her adult novels such a hit.