Katie Who Can Read

I've decided to review the concluding two books in the Anne of Green Gables series in a single post, as I've already said a lot ...

There are some people who are, as Anne Shirley would put it, true "kindred spirits." These are the people you can travel with, go ...

Seven years has passed since the end of Anne's House of Dreams. Anne Blythe, n ée Shirley, is about thirty four years old, mother to fi...

I used to be confused and a bit annoyed when film and stage adaptations of this classic story would be titled Little Women but contain the s...

At sixteen and a half, Anne Shirley has finished her own schooling at Queen's Academy, and is preparing to return to Avonlea school, th...

What better way to start a new year than to rediscover my favourite book of all time? When old-fashioned, late-middle-aged brother and sist...

Cecelia Ahern is best-known for her romantic tear-jerker, P.S. I Love You, which was made into a film starring Hilary Swank and Gerard Butle...

From a young age I was interested in boarding school stories, having been introduced to them through Malory Towers and The Chalet School. O...

I know I already named the Malory Towers series as my introduction to school stories, but What Katy Did at School preceded it - I just didn...

What Katy Did was probably the first book I read that I would call "girls'" fiction. I was bought the book when I was very sma...

When I was a little girl, a relative bought me some Secret Seven books, which got me hooked into Enid Blyton, to my mum's horror. She in...

I certainly didn't think, when I started this blog, I would be writing about a cookery bo ok, but that was before I found Jane Brocket...

A family friend once told me that her abiding memory of me was as a little, pigtailed girl wearing a straw hat and with her nose buried deep...