Bec Hill
Book Shambles
It’s our Halloween special and sometimes co-host Bec Hill returns to Book Shambles today to talk to Robin about her new kids horror book, The Slime, the first in a 13 book series called Horror Heights! They talk about creating the series, creativity in lockdown, favourite fictional slime, the influence of RL Stine and Paul Jennings and the joy of growing up with a librarian for a Mum.
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Reading List
Books recommended this week include:
The work of Paul Jennings
The Goosebumps series by RL Stine
The Narnia series by CS Lewis
The Magic Faraway Tree series by Enid Blyton
The Famous Five series by Enid Blyton
Trolls by Brian Froud and Wendy Froud
Nests by Susan Ogilvy
Gnomes by Wil Huygen and Rien Poortvliet.
Dinotopia by James Gurney
The Birds of America by John James Audubon
Birds Drawn for John Gould by Edward Lear
Beano
The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas
Adventures in Embroidery by Ernest Thesiger
Practically True by by Ernest Thesiger
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