John Ayliff – “Is Thomas the Tank Engine hard science fiction?”
A 2015 blog post by John Ayliff observes: The early Railway stories were based on real railway incidents, and the characters were based on real models of locomotive (Thomas is…
Tag: childrens literature
The Berenstain Bears and the Moral Minefield – The Dabbler, Jan 2015
This piece arose from reading about two very heated responses to the Berenstain Bears series of children’s books and cartoons. The posthumous “Good riddance” to Mrs Berenstain in particular struck me…
Review of “The Terrible Two”, Mac Barnett and Jory John, Childrens Books Ireland December 2015
This review was to a large degree dictated by my seven year old daughter. I have always thought that grown up reviewers (especially film reviewers who evidently would be preferred to…
Séamus Sweeney 