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Telling Tales
33. Singing for Mrs Pettigrew: a story-maker’s journey by Michael Morpurgo I haven’t read as much Morpurgo as I’d like, especially after reading this self-annotated anthology/memoir of his writing. I...
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Ridiculous Avoidance
Still no camera charger, so I can’t show you the handbag I’m making, or the matching corsage (both from Erika Knight’s Essential Crochet, seeing as my flatmate gave me the book and the yarn – both deep...
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300!
Well, I’ve made it, and any more books I add to the list are now bonuses. Maybe we can aim for 365 (not a leap year) in 2009. Or perhaps I should just do a bit more work on the masters instead… I...
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Multiple Morpurgos
Only the one Michael Morpurgo, but five more books by him! (They’re short, and came boxed together, so there are still some more I haven’t read…) Every single one of these (although not necessarily all...
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Where am I up to, again?
306. Good Wives by Louisa May Alcott Now this really is awhile ago, as it was one of Heather’s on Craftlit back at the end of November. It rounds out the youthful lives of the March girls and Teddy...
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Media types
I need to get to longer posts, but for now here’s another on a single children’s book. Cover of Cool! 2. Cool! by Michael Morpurgo I don’t mean at all to detract from the readability and...
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Out of and Into Africa
For some reason (well, the Africa and animals connection is one obvious one, but there’s more) I tend to think of these two of Michael Morpurgo’s books together, so here they are, back-to-back. 4. The...
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Animals at war
On Michael Morpurgo’s website he has a few different ways to look at subgroups of his books, including categories such as Animal Stories and War Stories. In Morpurgo’s catalogue, however, there’s a lot...
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