Despite the grimness of the global pandemic, Spring is in the air, bringing flowers, sunshine and, of course, insects. Here…
Do you like The Lord of the Rings but wish it was easier to read and had more humour? Then…
His Dark Materials is a fantastic series full of big ideas, amazing settings and interesting characters. The first book, Northern…
Ah, the nostalgia. This classic film adaptation, directed and written by Lionel Jeffries, is now as iconic as E Nesbit’s…
Welcome to another instalment in the ‘time-travelling bookworm’ series! The random generator has landed on Zarconi’s Magic Flying Fish by…
This is the most perfect book-to-screen adaptation I’ve seen. The screenwriter was the book’s author, Patrick Ness, which would explain…
This is an enchanting and heartwarming novel with a dreamlike atmosphere. There is something sparkling and wintry about it, perfect…
Roald Dahl famously disliked this musical adaptation of his 1964 book, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. However, this film is…
Fairytale retellings are very on trend right now, but this book is something better. It’s a collection of new fairytales,…
I don’t remember ever reading this classic Dahl book before, although I used to watch the film a lot. I…