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Marilyn Edwards
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Maggie Stiefvater
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Sharon Creech
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Tove Jansson
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Melvin Burgess
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Lauren St John
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Rachel Ward
A gripping thriller set in a not too distant future tells of Adam’s secret and his dreaded power – he...
Mary Hoffman
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Nick Sharratt
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Mark Robinson
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James Dashner
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Alex Scarrow
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Simon Prescott
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Graham Marks
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Graham Marks
An absolutely gripping spy adventure packed full of mystery, intrigue and high paced drama. It combines the action-packed exploits of...
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Graham Marks
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Graham Marks
One teenage boy stands between civilization and outright chaos. If you enjoy reading Anthony Horowitz or Andy McNab you’ll love...
Rebecca Elliott
This is a book that deserves a place on the nursery bookshelf to be read and reread time and time...
Rebecca Elliott
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Rebecca Elliott
A touching story about caring and developing an unusual friendship. When Milo finds an egg and hears it breathing, he...
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Who is Julia Eccleshare ?
Julia Eccleshare has spent her working life to date within children's books as a critic, an editor, an author and a commentator. Apart from her current role as Editorial contributor and advisor to Lovereading4kids, she is the children's editor of the Guardian.
She has co-edited and is the author of a number of books including the Rough Guide to Teenage Literature, the fascinating and insightful Beatrix Potter to Harry Potter: Portraits of Children's Writers, which is a celebration of a century of children's literature, as well as Treasure Islands: the Woman's Hour Guide to Children's Books. She also spent some considerable time as a children's fiction editor in UK publishing. She has been a selector to the Children's Books of the Year, a guide to the best books published annually, a member of the advisory board of a children's book club and for some while was children's books editor of The Bookseller. She regularly appears as a judge or Chair of judges on some of the major children's book prizes including the Whitbread (now called the Costa) and the Nestle among others.
From this engagement with the field she has encyclopaedic knowledge of what has been published for children over the last twenty five or thirty years, how fashions have changed, what has worked and how best to help children and their parents find the book that they will most enjoy. Julia was awarded the Eleanor Farjeon Prize in 2000 in recognition of her outstanding contribution to children's books. She is married with four children and lives in London.





