My Top Ten Secret Gardens
Big Book Little Book is delighted to host author Holly Webb as she shares her top ten secret gardens. Holly has written a sequel to one of my favourite childhood books, The Secret Garden. Dickon, from the original story, was…
Waiting for Anya
Michael Morpurgo It is World War II and Jo stumbles on a dangerous secret: Jewish children are being smuggled away from the Nazis, close to his mountain village in Spain. Now, German soldiers have been stationed at the border. Jo…
Cross My Heart
Carmen Reid Brussels, 1940. Fifteen-year-old Nicole watches as the Nazis invade Belgium. Determined not to stand by as her country is brought to its knees, Nicole vows to fight back and joins the Belgian Resistance. Under her new alias –…
Unravelled: Two Wars. Two Affairs. One Marriage.
M K Tod Two wars, two affairs, one marriage. In October 1935, Edward Jamieson’s memories of war and a passionate love affair resurface when an invitation to a WWI memorial ceremony arrives. Though reluctant to visit the scenes of horror…
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Mary Ann Schaffer and Annie Barrows It’s 1946 and author Juliet Ashton can’t think what to write next. Out of the blue, she receives a letter from Dawsey Adams of Guernsey – by chance, he’s acquired a book that once…
The Book Thief
HERE IS A SMALL FACT – YOU ARE GOING TO DIE 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier. Liesel, a nine-year-old girl, is living with a foster family on Himmel Street. Her parents…
Carnegie and Greenaway Award: Code Name Verity
Letters From Home
Kristina McMorris Two people. An unforgettable moment. One extraordinary love story. In Chicago, Illinois, two people are about to lock eyes across a crowded dance floor. The following moment will spark the love story of a lifetime… The year is…
Carnegie and Greenaway Awards: Midnight Zoo
Sonya Hartnett World War II, Eastern Europe: Tomas and his younger brother, Andrej, have fled their Romany encampment which has been besieged by the Germans; they carry Wilma, their baby sister, in a sack. In an abandoned, bombed-out town, the…
The Mozart Question
Michael Morpurgo and Michael Foreman A boy’s passion for music unlocks a painful secret — and draws his family together — in a multilayered tale by an outstanding author-illustrator pair. Like any young boy, Paolo becomes obsessed with what he…
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