#childrensliterature — Public Fediverse posts
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One of the best illustrated storybooks we’ve seen in a long time . . . An amazing book that will truly fire a child’s imagination! ― Creative Steps.
Buy online here:
https://www.quaybooksstore.com/products/tuesday?_pos=1&_sid=12d32aee5&_ss=r
#PrimaryTeachers #SchoolLibrary #ChildrensLiterature #ClassroomBooks #TeachersOfIreland #limerick #LibrariesIreland #KidsWhoRead -
Image is Robert Newton from Disney's "Treasure Island." #BookChatWeekly #GothicSpring #Book #BookSky #Literature #LiteratureSky #ChildrensLiterature #Fiction #FictionSky #ChildrensFiction #RobertLouisStevenson #Disney #WaltDisney #DisneySky #TreasureIsland #LongJohnSilver #Pirate #PirateSky
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Although Barrie is remembered today almost exclusively for PETER PAN, he was a prominent 19th-century novelist & the most successful British playwright of the early 20th century.
GATEWAY TO THE MODERN, edited by Valentina Bold & Andrew Nash, explores Barrie’s multifarious career
7/10
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/occasional_papers/gateway_to_the_modern/
#Scottish #literature #JMBarrie #kidlit #ChildrensLiterature #19thcentury #Victorian #20thcentury #Edwardian #PeterPan #drama #cinema #cinemahistory
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“Neverland is as much a tomb for the unloved and forgotten as it is a map of a child’s mind. It is a place ruled by a boy with a memory as thin as the skeleton leaves he wears.”
—Sabrina Orah Mark on lost boys, fairy tales, & raising Black sons in America
5/10
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/06/19/sorry-peter-pan-were-over-you/
#Scottish #literature #JMBarrie #kidlit #ChildrensLiterature #PeterPan #motherhood #race
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“…James Hook’s last will, which was forwarded to his aunt by a land-shark of Rio. By this James left everything to Eton. But the Governors, it appears, had scruples—even about the hat—and so all passed to his aunt Emily…”
—JM Barrie’s “Captain Hook at Eton” – being the text of an address delivered at Eton College in 1927 – can be read online via WikiSource
4.5/10
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Captain_Hook_at_Eton
#Scottish #literature #JMBarrie #kidlit #ChildrensLiterature #PeterPan #EtonCollege #privateschools
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“…James Hook’s last will, which was forwarded to his aunt by a land-shark of Rio. By this James left everything to Eton. But the Governors, it appears, had scruples—even about the hat—and so all passed to his aunt Emily…”
—JM Barrie’s “Captain Hook at Eton” – being the text of an address delivered at Eton College in 1927 – can be read online via WikiSource
4.5/10
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Captain_Hook_at_Eton
#Scottish #literature #JMBarrie #kidlit #ChildrensLiterature #PeterPan #EtonCollege #privateschools
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“…James Hook’s last will, which was forwarded to his aunt by a land-shark of Rio. By this James left everything to Eton. But the Governors, it appears, had scruples—even about the hat—and so all passed to his aunt Emily…”
—JM Barrie’s “Captain Hook at Eton” – being the text of an address delivered at Eton College in 1927 – can be read online via WikiSource
4.5/10
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Captain_Hook_at_Eton
#Scottish #literature #JMBarrie #kidlit #ChildrensLiterature #PeterPan #EtonCollege #privateschools
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“…James Hook’s last will, which was forwarded to his aunt by a land-shark of Rio. By this James left everything to Eton. But the Governors, it appears, had scruples—even about the hat—and so all passed to his aunt Emily…”
—JM Barrie’s “Captain Hook at Eton” – being the text of an address delivered at Eton College in 1927 – can be read online via WikiSource
4.5/10
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Captain_Hook_at_Eton
#Scottish #literature #JMBarrie #kidlit #ChildrensLiterature #PeterPan #EtonCollege #privateschools
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“…James Hook’s last will, which was forwarded to his aunt by a land-shark of Rio. By this James left everything to Eton. But the Governors, it appears, had scruples—even about the hat—and so all passed to his aunt Emily…”
—JM Barrie’s “Captain Hook at Eton” – being the text of an address delivered at Eton College in 1927 – can be read online via WikiSource
4.5/10
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Captain_Hook_at_Eton
#Scottish #literature #JMBarrie #kidlit #ChildrensLiterature #PeterPan #EtonCollege #privateschools
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“James Hook, the pirate captain, was a great Etonian, but not a good one…”
—Brian Till in The Atlantic explores “The Secret History of Captain Hook”
🖼️ Alice B. Woodward (1862–1951), “Right into the jaws of the crocodile”
4/10
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2010/12/the-secret-history-of-captain-hook/68313/
#Scottish #literature #JMBarrie #kidlit #ChildrensLiterature #PeterPan #EtonCollege #privateschools
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“James Hook, the pirate captain, was a great Etonian, but not a good one…”
—Brian Till in The Atlantic explores “The Secret History of Captain Hook”
🖼️ Alice B. Woodward (1862–1951), “Right into the jaws of the crocodile”
4/10
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2010/12/the-secret-history-of-captain-hook/68313/
#Scottish #literature #JMBarrie #kidlit #ChildrensLiterature #PeterPan #EtonCollege #privateschools
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“James Hook, the pirate captain, was a great Etonian, but not a good one…”
—Brian Till in The Atlantic explores “The Secret History of Captain Hook”
🖼️ Alice B. Woodward (1862–1951), “Right into the jaws of the crocodile”
4/10
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2010/12/the-secret-history-of-captain-hook/68313/
#Scottish #literature #JMBarrie #kidlit #ChildrensLiterature #PeterPan #EtonCollege #privateschools
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“James Hook, the pirate captain, was a great Etonian, but not a good one…”
—Brian Till in The Atlantic explores “The Secret History of Captain Hook”
🖼️ Alice B. Woodward (1862–1951), “Right into the jaws of the crocodile”
4/10
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2010/12/the-secret-history-of-captain-hook/68313/
#Scottish #literature #JMBarrie #kidlit #ChildrensLiterature #PeterPan #EtonCollege #privateschools
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“James Hook, the pirate captain, was a great Etonian, but not a good one…”
—Brian Till in The Atlantic explores “The Secret History of Captain Hook”
🖼️ Alice B. Woodward (1862–1951), “Right into the jaws of the crocodile”
4/10
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2010/12/the-secret-history-of-captain-hook/68313/
#Scottish #literature #JMBarrie #kidlit #ChildrensLiterature #PeterPan #EtonCollege #privateschools
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“To be born is to be wrecked on an island.”
From the true-life adventure of Alexander Selkirk, through Daniel Defoe, RM Ballantyne, & Robert Louis Stevenson, John Pielmeier – author of HOOK’S TALE – follows a chain of real & fictional islands to JM Barrie’s Neverland…
3/10
https://lithub.com/visiting-the-actual-island-that-inspired-neverland/
#Scottish #literature #JMBarrie #kidlit #ChildrensLiterature #PeterPan #RobertLouisStevenson #DanielDefoe #RobinsonCrusoe
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“Barrie’s book may ostensibly be about the boys’ eternal childhood, but it’s the mother figures who are the scaffolding upon which his story rests.”
– Liz Michalski, author of DARLING GIRL, on the mother figures in PETER PAN
2/10
https://lithub.com/empathizing-with-the-mother-figures-of-peter-pan/
#Scottish #literature #JMBarrie #kidlit #ChildrensLiterature #PeterPan #motherhood
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“Barrie was a wounded creature, from his earliest youth, and his probing of that wound is what makes PETER PAN so enduringly painful to read […] The tensions are bald and excruciating.”
A 🎂 🧵 for JM Barrie (1860–1937) – born #OTD, 9 May
1/10
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/11/22/lost-boys
#Scottish #literature #JMBarrie #kidlit #ChildrensLiterature #PeterPan
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I always loved reading picture books aloud to my students, and 1993's "SANTA CALLS" by William Joyce was a regular holiday feature in my classroom. What beautiful artwork! #santacalls #williamjoyce #childrensbook #childrensbooks #childrensliterature #literature #goodliterature #illustration #illustrations #art #artwork #beautifulart #painting #paintings #holiday #holidays #celebrate #celebration #reading #readingaloud #readingaloudtochildren #newyorktimes #newyorktimesbookreview
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I always loved reading picture books aloud to my students, and 1993's "SANTA CALLS" by William Joyce was a regular holiday feature in my classroom. What beautiful artwork! #santacalls #williamjoyce #childrensbook #childrensbooks #childrensliterature #literature #goodliterature #illustration #illustrations #art #artwork #beautifulart #painting #paintings #holiday #holidays #celebrate #celebration #reading #readingaloud #readingaloudtochildren #newyorktimes #newyorktimesbookreview
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I always loved reading picture books aloud to my students, and 1993's "SANTA CALLS" by William Joyce was a regular holiday feature in my classroom. What beautiful artwork! #santacalls #williamjoyce #childrensbook #childrensbooks #childrensliterature #literature #goodliterature #illustration #illustrations #art #artwork #beautifulart #painting #paintings #holiday #holidays #celebrate #celebration #reading #readingaloud #readingaloudtochildren #newyorktimes #newyorktimesbookreview
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I always loved reading picture books aloud to my students, and 1993's "SANTA CALLS" by William Joyce was a regular holiday feature in my classroom. What beautiful artwork! #santacalls #williamjoyce #childrensbook #childrensbooks #childrensliterature #literature #goodliterature #illustration #illustrations #art #artwork #beautifulart #painting #paintings #holiday #holidays #celebrate #celebration #reading #readingaloud #readingaloudtochildren #newyorktimes #newyorktimesbookreview
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I always loved reading picture books aloud to my students, and 1993's "SANTA CALLS" by William Joyce was a regular holiday feature in my classroom. What beautiful artwork! #santacalls #williamjoyce #childrensbook #childrensbooks #childrensliterature #literature #goodliterature #illustration #illustrations #art #artwork #beautifulart #painting #paintings #holiday #holidays #celebrate #celebration #reading #readingaloud #readingaloudtochildren #newyorktimes #newyorktimesbookreview
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Two U.K. Awards Seek to Encourage Reading for Pleasure in Children and Adults
The Booker Prize Foundation launches The Children's Booker Prize. The Jhalak Prize celebrates its 10th anniversary and announces shortlists for the three award categories.
The post Two U.K. Awards Seek to Encourage Reading for Pleasure in Children and Adults appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.
https://publishingperspectives.com/2026/04/two-u-k-awards-seek-to-encourage-reading-for-pleasure-in-children-and-adults/#Awards #BookerPrize #ChildrensBookerPrize #Childrensliterature #Ireland
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Many, many books by R.M. Ballantyne – including FIGHTING THE FLAMES and THE LIGHTHOUSE – can be downloaded for free from @gutenberg_org
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/333
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #kidlit #ChildrensLiterature #Ballantyne
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Ballantyne’s research led him to spend 16 days on the Bell Rock lighthouse:
“I did not think that any building made by man could have withstood the terrific sea that has been swirling and roaring round and pounding against us.”
https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/past-times/4783307/rm-ballantyne-bell-rock-lighthouse/
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #kidlit #ChildrensLiterature #Ballantyne #lighthouse
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“One thing that Ballantyne did, which sets him apart from contemporary children’s authors, was carry out detailed research for his novels […] He worked in a Cornish tin mine (Deep Down: a Tale of the Cornish Mines), went to the bottom of the Thames in a diving suit (Under the Waves), and for Fighting the Flames worked in a London fire station.”
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #kidlit #ChildrensLiterature #Ballantyne #firefighters #firebrigade
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RM Ballantyne (1825–1894) was born #OTD, 24 April. Best known today for THE CORAL ISLAND – which influenced Robert Louis Stevenson, JM Barrie, William Golding, & others – he wrote more than 100 books.
In this blog post, National Library of Scotland Curator Graham Hogg introduces Ballantyne’s 1867 novel FIGHTING THE FLAMES: A Tale of the London Fire Brigade
https://blog.nls.uk/curators-favourites-r-m-ballantynes-fighting-the-flames/
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #kidlit #ChildrensLiterature #Ballantyne #firefighters #firebrigade
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The wildest stories often hold the truest lessons. A reminder that kindness, self-worth, and heart are anything but ordinary.
Read here: https://www.dannasouthwellauthor.com/a-tall-story-life-lessons-childrens-stories/#KidsBooks #Kindness #LifeLessons #ChildrensLiterature #Storytime #SelfWorth
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A quotation from Bertrand Russell
It is a dangerous error to confound truth with matter-of-fact. Our life is governed not only by facts, but by hopes; the kind of truthfulness which sees nothing but facts is a prison for the human spirit. Dreams are only to be condemned when they are a lazy substitute for an effort to change reality; when they are an incentive, they are fulfilling a vital purpose in the incarnation of human ideals. To kill fancy in childhood is to make a slave to what exists, a creature tethered to earth and therefore unable to create heaven.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Education and the Good Life, Part 2, ch. 5 “Play and Fancy” (1926)More about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/832…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #fairytales #childrensliterature #change #dreams #fact #hope #ideals #mundanity #progress #truth
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A quotation from Bertrand Russell
It is a dangerous error to confound truth with matter-of-fact. Our life is governed not only by facts, but by hopes; the kind of truthfulness which sees nothing but facts is a prison for the human spirit. Dreams are only to be condemned when they are a lazy substitute for an effort to change reality; when they are an incentive, they are fulfilling a vital purpose in the incarnation of human ideals. To kill fancy in childhood is to make a slave to what exists, a creature tethered to earth and therefore unable to create heaven.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Education and the Good Life, Part 2, ch. 5 “Play and Fancy” (1926)More about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/832…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #fairytales #childrensliterature #change #dreams #fact #hope #ideals #mundanity #progress #truth
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A quotation from Bertrand Russell
It is a dangerous error to confound truth with matter-of-fact. Our life is governed not only by facts, but by hopes; the kind of truthfulness which sees nothing but facts is a prison for the human spirit. Dreams are only to be condemned when they are a lazy substitute for an effort to change reality; when they are an incentive, they are fulfilling a vital purpose in the incarnation of human ideals. To kill fancy in childhood is to make a slave to what exists, a creature tethered to earth and therefore unable to create heaven.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Education and the Good Life, Part 2, ch. 5 “Play and Fancy” (1926)More about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/832…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #fairytales #childrensliterature #change #dreams #fact #hope #ideals #mundanity #progress #truth
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A quotation from Bertrand Russell
It is a dangerous error to confound truth with matter-of-fact. Our life is governed not only by facts, but by hopes; the kind of truthfulness which sees nothing but facts is a prison for the human spirit. Dreams are only to be condemned when they are a lazy substitute for an effort to change reality; when they are an incentive, they are fulfilling a vital purpose in the incarnation of human ideals. To kill fancy in childhood is to make a slave to what exists, a creature tethered to earth and therefore unable to create heaven.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Education and the Good Life, Part 2, ch. 5 “Play and Fancy” (1926)More about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/832…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #fairytales #childrensliterature #change #dreams #fact #hope #ideals #mundanity #progress #truth
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A quotation from Bertrand Russell
It is a dangerous error to confound truth with matter-of-fact. Our life is governed not only by facts, but by hopes; the kind of truthfulness which sees nothing but facts is a prison for the human spirit. Dreams are only to be condemned when they are a lazy substitute for an effort to change reality; when they are an incentive, they are fulfilling a vital purpose in the incarnation of human ideals. To kill fancy in childhood is to make a slave to what exists, a creature tethered to earth and therefore unable to create heaven.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Education and the Good Life, Part 2, ch. 5 “Play and Fancy” (1926)More about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/832…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #fairytales #childrensliterature #change #dreams #fact #hope #ideals #mundanity #progress #truth
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@gutenberg_org has free ebook editions of Andrew Lang’s Fairy Books, & a linked index to all the stories in all twelve volumes
6/6
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30580
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #kidlit #childrensliterature #fairytale #AndrewLang
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“The taste of the world, which has veered so often, is constant enough to fairy tales… we are still repeating to the boys and girls of each generation the stories that were old before Homer sang…”
—from Andrew Lang’s Introduction to THE BLUE FAIRY BOOK (1889)
5/6
https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Blue_Fairy_Book
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #kidlit #childrensliterature #fairytale #AndrewLang
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“I have his complete collection of books with me at all times. I have three extra physical sets and I travel with an ebook version of them… These stories started their journey with me when I was very young”
—Guillermo del Toro on Andrew Lang’s Fairy Books
4/6
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #kidlit #childrensliterature #fairytale #AndrewLang #GuillermodelToro
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“…fairies persist, & become figures of fascination in this period, not because they offer an escape into the past, but because they speak powerfully, if indirectly, about present concerns”
—Andrew Teverson on Andrew Lang & the Fairies
2/6
https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2016/12/a-shy-and-fugitive-people-andrew-lang-and-the-fairies/
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #kidlit #childrensliterature #fairytale #AndrewLang
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Andrew Lang (1844–1912) was born #OTD, 31 March. An extraordinarily prolific anthropologist, writer & literary critic, he is best remembered today for collecting & editing fairy stories from around the world
A 🎂 🧵
1/6
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #kidlit #childrensliterature #fairytale #AndrewLang
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We added 2 new titles on #adolescence & processes of change!
Julia Pfeiffer's "Transforming Girls" talks about the #transformation from #backfisch to #womanhood within 19th c #youngadultliterature in German & #AmericanLiterature#VictorianStudies #LiteraryStudies #girlhood #ChildrensLiterature #YA
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We added 2 new titles on #adolescence & processes of change!
Julia Pfeiffer's "Transforming Girls" talks about the #transformation from #backfisch to #womanhood within 19th c #youngadultliterature in German & #AmericanLiterature#VictorianStudies #LiteraryStudies #girlhood #ChildrensLiterature #YA
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We added 2 new titles on #adolescence & processes of change!
Julia Pfeiffer's "Transforming Girls" talks about the #transformation from #backfisch to #womanhood within 19th c #youngadultliterature in German & #AmericanLiterature#VictorianStudies #LiteraryStudies #girlhood #ChildrensLiterature #YA
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We added 2 new titles on #adolescence & processes of change!
Julia Pfeiffer's "Transforming Girls" talks about the #transformation from #backfisch to #womanhood within 19th c #youngadultliterature in German & #AmericanLiterature#VictorianStudies #LiteraryStudies #girlhood #ChildrensLiterature #YA
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Happy Birthday, silly ole bear!
Winnie-the-Pooh at 100: this much-loved classic illustrates how #books can boost our wellbeing https://theconversation.com/winnie-the-pooh-at-100-this-much-loved-classic-illustrates-how-books-can-boost-our-wellbeing-277528
#WinniethePooh #childrensliterature #readgin #amreading #100years
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Happy Birthday, silly ole bear!
Winnie-the-Pooh at 100: this much-loved classic illustrates how #books can boost our wellbeing https://theconversation.com/winnie-the-pooh-at-100-this-much-loved-classic-illustrates-how-books-can-boost-our-wellbeing-277528
#WinniethePooh #childrensliterature #readgin #amreading #100years
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Happy Birthday, silly ole bear!
Winnie-the-Pooh at 100: this much-loved classic illustrates how #books can boost our wellbeing https://theconversation.com/winnie-the-pooh-at-100-this-much-loved-classic-illustrates-how-books-can-boost-our-wellbeing-277528
#WinniethePooh #childrensliterature #readgin #amreading #100years
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Happy Birthday, silly ole bear!
Winnie-the-Pooh at 100: this much-loved classic illustrates how #books can boost our wellbeing https://theconversation.com/winnie-the-pooh-at-100-this-much-loved-classic-illustrates-how-books-can-boost-our-wellbeing-277528
#WinniethePooh #childrensliterature #readgin #amreading #100years
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Happy Birthday, silly ole bear!
Winnie-the-Pooh at 100: this much-loved classic illustrates how #books can boost our wellbeing https://theconversation.com/winnie-the-pooh-at-100-this-much-loved-classic-illustrates-how-books-can-boost-our-wellbeing-277528
#WinniethePooh #childrensliterature #readgin #amreading #100years