An ongoing bone of contention in a couple of the #BookTwub discussions has been the feud between fans of Enid Blyton and Roald Dahl as to which is the greatest children’s author. One week Blyton came out on top but the following week Dahl triumphed…
#BookTwub Review – 20 October 2011
25 October 2011 by Leave a Comment
Another Thursday and another #BookTwub chat on Twitter. The fallout from last week’s Roald Dahl/Enid Blyton feud continued. This week though there were more boys taking part in the discussion so Dahl topped the poll. If I counted all of the votes that came in the following day…. Dahl would still have won…
The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl
24 October 2011 by Leave a Comment
I know what you’re thinking. This is horror week – what is a classic children’s writer like Roald Dahl doing here? The BFG wasn’t that scary…. True, but one of the most terrifying things in life is the thought of what humans can do…