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2016: Space for the Odyssey?

July 7, 2016January 23, 2018Oxford Primary 1 Comment

Last month, I was lucky enough to speak at OUP’s For the Love of Reading: Passing on the Passion conference. It was a wonderful occasion that brought teachers, authors and researchers together to talk about reading. I left with my brain fizzing with ideas, inspired to try the raft of new things I’d learnt from […]

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TreeTops Greatest Stories: Meet the authors

April 26, 2016October 9, 2018Oxford Primary

Next month sees the publication of our new TreeTops Greatest Stories series. Each of the 35 titles is beautifully retold and illustrated by some of our most popular authors and illustrators. We’re also fortunate to have best-selling author Michael Morpurgo as Series Editor and Kimberley Reynolds, Professor of Children’s Literature at Newcastle University, as Series Advisor. Over the […]

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The Real Don Quixote

April 23, 2016October 9, 2018Oxford Primary

Miguel de Cervantes’ masterpiece in his Anniversary Year I know, said someone at UNESCO in the early 1990s, let’s have a yearly celebration of books and writers. We can call it World Book and Copyright Day . Ooh, and look, three gigantic geniuses –  Shakespeare, De la Vega and Cervantes – all died on the 23rd April so that will […]

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