Louie Stowell & Julie Baugh
Book Shambles
This week’s episode is a young readers special. Robin chats to author Louie Stowell about her new book for younger readers, Otherland and is also joined by high school librarian Julie Baugh. They chat about what kids and young adults are reading today, which classics are still popular, the importance of libraries, the wonderful Usborne series of books and a whole lot more. There’s LOADS of recommendations this week!
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Reading List
Books recommended this week include:
Otherland by Louie Stowell
The Making of Doctor Who by Malcolm Hulke and Terrance Dicks
Talking to women by Nell Dunn
The work of Jacqueline Wilson
After the Fire by Will Hills
The Skullduggery Pleasant series by Derek Landy
The Dead series by Charlie Higson
The work of Darren Shan
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
The work of Jason Reynolds
A Skinful of Shadows by Frances Hardinge
The work of Chris Colfer
The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve
The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear by Walter Moers
After the War by Tom Palmer
The Infinite Lives of Maisie Day by Christopher Edge
The work of S. E. Hinton
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Grimms’ Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm
Red Shift by Alan Garner
Pardon Me, You’re Stepping on My Eyeball! by Paul Zindel
Salem’s Lot by Stephen King
The Killer Crabs novels by Guy N Smith
The work of Beatrix Potter
The Farthest-Away Mountain by Lynne Reid Banks
The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales by Jon Scieszka
The work of Maurice Sendak
The work of Ivor Cutler
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin, Jr. and Eric Carle
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
Cosmos by Carl Sagan
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
The Hellblazer comic series
The Adventure Time comic series
When the Wind Blows by Raymond Briggs
Ethel and Earnest by Raymond Briggs
Fungus the Bogeyman by Raymond Briggs
Troublesome Things by Diane Purkiss
Coding for Beginners: Using Python by Louie Stowell
The Usborne Official Astronaut’s Handbook by Louie Stowell
The World of the Unknown: Monsters by Carey Miller
In Ancient Greece by Anne Millard
The work of Edith Nesbit
The work of Diana Wynne Jones
The Just William series by Richmal Crompton
The Usborne Book of the Future: A Trip in Time to the Year 2000 and Beyond by David Jefferis and Kenneth W. Gatland
Profiles of the Future by Arthur C. Clarke
The Good Fairies of New York by Martin Millar
Lux the Poet by Martin Millar
Milk, Sulphate and Alby Starvation by Martin Millar
Outside Over There by Maurice Sendak
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