‘The Little Bookroom’ is the title of a book by Eleanor Farjeon, which I loved when I was about ten.
This blog represents the process of a project I have decided to undertake, to re-read the books that I read and loved as a child, up until the age of twelve or so. The purpose of this project is twofold: partly, it’s for fun – I want to re-read this books that I haven’t read for well over twenty years in most cases; but it’s also because I’m interested in children’s literature as a genre – in how it educates and instructs, informs and entertains (of course I do have an academic interest in children’s literature, too). I also want to know what it is about these books that I (and no doubt many others) loved so much: what keeps children going back to these books? I hope, over the course of what will probably be several years, to answer these questions and more.
Some of the writers I will certainly be looking at include:
| Louisa May Alcott
‘BB’ Enid Blyton Lucy M Boston Anthony Buckeridge Lewis Carroll Richmal Crompton Monica Dickens Eleanor Farjeon Kenneth Grahame Lorna Hill Frances Hodgson Burnett Laura Ingalls Wilder Tove Janssen Charles Kingsley Andrew Lang CS Lewis Astrid Lindgren AA Milne LM Montgomery Edith Nesbit Rhoda Power Arthur Ransome Dodie Smith Noel Streatfeild RJ Unstead Alison Uttley Diana Wynne-Jones |
Please feel free to suggest others – although I will only be reading books I have read before (at this stage, anyway). As you can see, I didn’t read very up-to-date books!
