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wellinghall) wrote2009-04-28 11:58 am
wellinghall) wrote2009-04-28 11:58 am
Some links for you
Today's Matt offers a different take on the swine flu scare:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/matt/
Oxford Arthurians might want to read this:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wiltshire/8022291.stm
Thirty-five favourite children's books:
Quentin Blake Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain, Edward Ardizzone; Queenie the Bantam, Bob Graham; The Box of Delights,John Masefield; Rose Blanche, Ian McEwan and Roberto Innocenti; Five Children and It, E Nesbit; Snow White, Josephine Poole; Stuart Little, EB White
Jacqueline Wilson Little Women, Louisa May Alcott; A Little Princess, Frances Hodgson Burnett; What Katy Did, Susan Coolidge; The Family from One End Street, Eve Garnett; The Railway Children, E Nesbit; Ballet Shoes, Noel Streatfeild; Mary Poppins, PL Travers
Michael Morpurgo Five Go to Smuggler’s Top, Enid Blyton; Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel, Virginia Lee Burton; Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens; Just So Stories, Rudyard Kipling; A Book of Nonsense, Edward Lear; Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson; The Happy Prince, Oscar Wilde
Anne Fine The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, Joan Aiken; Absolute Zero, Helen Cresswell; Just William, Richmal Crompton; Journey to the River Sea, Eva Ibbotson; Lavender’s Blue, Kathleen Lines; A Child’s Garden of Verses, Robert Louis Stevenson; The Sword in the Stone, TH White
Michael Rosen Clown, Quentin Blake; The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank; Emil and the Detectives, Erich Kästner; Not Now, Bernard, David McKee; Fairy Tales, Terry Jones; Mr Gum and the Dancing Bear, Andy Stanton; Daz 4 Zoe, Robert Swindells
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/children/article6181796.ece
"A replica 16th Century junk has sunk off Taiwan, one day short of completing an epic voyage to the US and back. The Ming dynasty-style Princess Taiping was trying to prove that China's greatest admiral, Zheng He, could have reached North America 600 years ago."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8020206.stm
"A three-seater outside toilet in Kent has been listed as a building of special architectural and historical importance."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/7251752.stm
ETA: The art of Penguin science fiction:
http://www.penguinsciencefiction.org/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/matt/
Oxford Arthurians might want to read this:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wiltshire/8022291.stm
Thirty-five favourite children's books:
Quentin Blake Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain, Edward Ardizzone; Queenie the Bantam, Bob Graham; The Box of Delights,John Masefield; Rose Blanche, Ian McEwan and Roberto Innocenti; Five Children and It, E Nesbit; Snow White, Josephine Poole; Stuart Little, EB White
Jacqueline Wilson Little Women, Louisa May Alcott; A Little Princess, Frances Hodgson Burnett; What Katy Did, Susan Coolidge; The Family from One End Street, Eve Garnett; The Railway Children, E Nesbit; Ballet Shoes, Noel Streatfeild; Mary Poppins, PL Travers
Michael Morpurgo Five Go to Smuggler’s Top, Enid Blyton; Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel, Virginia Lee Burton; Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens; Just So Stories, Rudyard Kipling; A Book of Nonsense, Edward Lear; Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson; The Happy Prince, Oscar Wilde
Anne Fine The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, Joan Aiken; Absolute Zero, Helen Cresswell; Just William, Richmal Crompton; Journey to the River Sea, Eva Ibbotson; Lavender’s Blue, Kathleen Lines; A Child’s Garden of Verses, Robert Louis Stevenson; The Sword in the Stone, TH White
Michael Rosen Clown, Quentin Blake; The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank; Emil and the Detectives, Erich Kästner; Not Now, Bernard, David McKee; Fairy Tales, Terry Jones; Mr Gum and the Dancing Bear, Andy Stanton; Daz 4 Zoe, Robert Swindells
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/children/article6181796.ece
"A replica 16th Century junk has sunk off Taiwan, one day short of completing an epic voyage to the US and back. The Ming dynasty-style Princess Taiping was trying to prove that China's greatest admiral, Zheng He, could have reached North America 600 years ago."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8020206.stm
"A three-seater outside toilet in Kent has been listed as a building of special architectural and historical importance."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/7251752.stm
ETA: The art of Penguin science fiction:
http://www.penguinsciencefiction.org/