Many apologies, Awfully Big Blog readers, but I’m up to my neck
in GCSE and A-level English
teaching, and after two abortive attempts to produce a readable piece for this
month, I’ve got to accept reality: at the moment I can’t think straight and
chew cud!
Instead, here are
links to the Historical Association’s Young Quill readers’ reviews of their
choices for the 2019 shortlist for novels for 11-13 year old readers - and
anyone else who loves a good historical yarn. I’m so proud that The Goose Road sits alongside these fabulous
books by Hilary McKay, Catherine Johnson, Emma Carroll, Pippa Goodheart and
Stuart Hill.
Congratulations to you all.
Other age categories have
super choices, too, so please direct your young people, their teachers,
families and friends to all of the honest, insightful reviews. What a great time for
our genre! And thank you to the Historical Association, and every one of their
reviewers.
5 comments:
Congratulations, Rowena! What a feat
Congratulations to you and all those amazing Young Quills titles, Rowena.
Thank you!
Congratulations to all of you!
Congratulations! And I say that, even though that means my book, which was on the long list, didn't make it! I'm sad because it is a lovely award, but someone has to not get on, and I was surprised and very pleased to be on the list in the first place, as most of my book is set in the present. All these books are great, and it also led me to look at the link and realise that I had some lovely reviews for 'Across the Divide' which I didn't know I had! Good luck to you all!
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