Littlest Librarian

Adventures in children's literature

Julia Donaldson and Helen Oxenbury on books to scare and thrill

So here’s the thing. Until my daughter was born, I’d managed to live in total ignorance of the branding juggernaut that is Julia Donaldson. I’d vaguely heard of a creature called the Gruffalo but was wholly unprepared for walking into the books section of a certain high street stationer and finding it blanketed by her. […]

A little bit about this blog…

Becoming a mother can feel a lot like journeying to a foreign country. You enter a land with its own time zone, where the movement of clock hands is as herky-jerky as a babe-in-arm’s. Emotional weather fronts roll in over an unfamiliar landscape in which laundry mountains spring up from nowhere, and the contours of […]