2025 in the Rear View
accidentally had a successful year (by my own metrics, which are probably not yours)
Tag: children
Love You Forever by Robert Munsch & Sheila McGraw
i read a devastatingly beautiful book for children
Persuasion: A Colors [sic] Primer (Little Miss Austen) by Jennifer Adams, Art by Alison Oliver
a con job luring in hapless literary parents: AVOID AT ALL COSTS
because earth is flat: a flat earth poetry collection – scott manley hadley: live at paradise (new web series episode)
the earth is flat; if it wasn’t, why would there be a whole book of poetry presuming it was???
my father, from a distance – scott manley hadley: live at paradise (new web series episode)
Filmed at the tail end of the COVID-19 pandemic in Toronto’s historic Paradise Theatre on Bloor St W, the poet,Continue Reading
George’s Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl
not marvellous and definitely not medicine… or literature
The Letter for the King by Tonke Dragt
dated dutch children’s fiction
Such Small Hands by Andrés Barba
Digression-free review of some new literary fiction
Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter
Max Porter Works In Publishing
Preacher: Book Four by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon
Preacher is fine, but it’s irrelevant to real life. I should adopt a Syrian child refugee.
Vauxhall by Gabriel Gbadamosi
Just before Christmas an email was circulated round the students of my university pointing us in the direction of aContinue Reading
Triumph Of The Now 