Jo March and Anne Shirley would probably begin talking within thirty seconds of meeting each other. Stopping them might be considerably harder. Both are imaginative, ambitious and constantly told, in different ways,
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Hermione Granger and Matilda Wormwood would probably get along brilliantly. They love books. They learn quickly. They are often the smartest people in the room. And both discover that intelligence can be
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Imagine a world with no war. No hunger. No difficult choices. No heartbreak. It sounds almost perfect. That is the world twelve-year-old Jonas lives in at the beginning of Lois Lowry’s The
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At first glance, The Little Prince looks like a children’s book. It has simple illustrations, short chapters and a tiny prince who travels from planet to planet meeting strange people. But somewhere
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Some books entertain you. Some make you think. Wonder does something a little more difficult: it makes you notice how you treat people. At the centre of the story is August Pullman,
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