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My favourite Roald Dahl character is Charlie Bucket ... Before I even knew Dahl wrote children’s books, I was reading his more macabre stories. My favourite character is Mrs Foster, from The ...
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M any might think the 1990s were no good for fantasy, but truth be told, that might be because many people only consider ...
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Bourne End Auction Rooms will auction a rare copy of the Technical Cygnet, Volume 1 Number 10, a school magazine that was ...
Kate Elliott has written fantasy, science fiction, space opera, Young Adult fantasy, as well as two novellas set in the Magic ...
Wee to the Penguin, from Jack Skellington to Beetlejuice again, we've sorted through the beguiling, sometimes bewildering ...
What kid wouldn’t love a trip to a chocolate factory? Well, any kid that saw Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, perhaps. Adapted from one of the most-adapted authors ever, the 1971 film ...
The New Yorker, January 31, 1959 P. 31 For some months Claud had been poaching on the property of Mr. Victor Hazel, an arrogant, rich, self-made manufacturer of pies & sausages, without any charm ...
Will HBO's Harry Potter series be able to capture the magic of the films? Only if its creators understand what made them magical to begin with.
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