Chris Powling

Spooky Different things frighten different people but most of us get jittery about something. Often it's something completely imaginary such as the Night Bird in Ursula Wolfel's story or the Invisible Beast in Jack Prelutsky's poem or the mysterious figures with swords described by Michael...

INTRODUCTION Irresponsible Writers and Responsible Readers Victor Watson Is it possible to identify good writing for children? There is no approved 'poetic' for describing children's books, there are no agreed criteria for assessing them, and no one - as far as I know - has convincingly...

This is the story of the worst hiccups I ever had. Every kid in my school had to stop work because of them. Mmmi It happened when I was ^^years old! Six years old, I mean.