Katie Who Can Read

While looking through a box of old books from my childhood, I found a dystopian YA novel written long before dystopian YA Novels were A T...

I took a trip to nearby Ryde a couple of weeks ago to explore the big bookshop there, and spent a good hour browsing all the rooms and noo...

I was making plans for this post as I walked home from work yesterday evening; it was going to be a Five Things That Made Me Happy This Week...

Hello to you all. I know I talk a lot about the weather in these blog posts, but what can I say? I'm British. I've spent the last ...

Another top ten that I simply could not resist writing about. There is more to books than merely the story inside the books. So many of my f...

They don't make kids' TV like they used to. Fact. The Lion... As a child, I watched very little television indeed, but perhaps...

Top Ten Tuesday is the brainchild of the ladies at The Broke and the Bookish , and this week the task is to list ten books of our favour...

A glowing lamppost in the middle of a snowy wood. A faun, wrapped in a scarf, carrying parcels and an umbrella. This is one of the images ...

It was the summer of 2003. My dad was the first person on the Isle of Wight to pre-order the fifth Harry Potter book, happening to be in...

With just a few weeks to go before Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 is released into the cinemas, I decided to pick up the serie...

The fourth book in the Anne series is a bit of an oddity, sandwiched in between the Avonlea stories and the Blythe Family stories, covering...

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...

One evening, when I was seven or eight years old, my father sat me and my sister down and told us he was going to read us a bedtime story:...

I can't remember a time when I didn't know the story of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Realistically, it probably wasn't...