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Christmas Books at Homerton College Library
This guest post is written by Liz Osman. Liz is Fellow Librarian at Homerton College Library. It’s always enjoyable to put out a new exhibition; it’s a chance to show off the wonderful variety of...
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Elsa is Queer: A Close Reading of Song Lyrics in Frozen and Frozen 2
Last week at a graduate conference an educator asked me whether I thought we should teach children about “homosexuality”. I was feeling generous, so I chose to interpret her question as a request for...
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One More Adaption of Little Women: A Personal Review
*Note: this post contains spoilers about the film Little Women. “I am working on a novel, and it’s about my life, and my sisters’.” Greta Gerwig’s 2019 film version of this frequently adapted classic...
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How do children identify ideologies through storytime?
The new year is a time of reflection and prediction. As an educator of 620 children aged three to twelve, I grapple with how to prepare them for a tomorrow that seems likely to include climate change,...
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Spring Self-Care in Cambridge Based on the Five Love Languages
By Sapphire Demirsöz February in Cambridge is a magical month. Not only is it the most romantic city in which to spend Valentine’s Day but spring is already in the air, with idyllic blue skies and...
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A day in the life of an MPhil student (sort of)
I came to the MPhil after working as a UK state school English teacher for fifteen years (a career I came to late anyway) for the British military in Cyprus (a long story in itself). So, I had the...
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My Lockdown Reading: Adolescence, AIDS, Covid-19 Dystopia and Picturebooks
When I began my doctoral project on the role of HIV/AIDS in young adult literature, I never expected to find myself researching one epidemic in the midst of a new one. As Cambridge emptied and the...
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Storytelling and Covid-19
The current pandemic is a good time to remember a post by Amy Ryder last year on the power of storytelling in medical environments for children. Amy’s post is about how children (like adults!) use...
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‘Time and time again’: Tom’s Midnight Garden and the Temporality of Lockdown
A classic of children’s literature about time travel, Philippa Pearce’s Tom’s Midnight Garden is one of those books that has followed me around throughout my life. It was read to me as a child and...
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This blog represents students at the Centre for Research in Children’s Literature within the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge. We have been appalled to read the testimony of our...
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