OurDailyRead

Our Daily Read – Book News, Reviews & Comment

Main menu

Skip to primary content
Skip to secondary content
  • Fiction
  • Reviews
  • Interviews
  • Under 7s
  • 8-12yr
  • Teen
  • Education
  • Graphic
  • Art
  • Crime
  • Poetry
  • History
  • Bio
  • Obituary

Post navigation

← Older posts
Newer posts →

Snow Dog by Malorie Blackman – review

Alicemae: 'A story for children who really want a pet but can't have one'

The Tick-tock Box – by Holly Gash

Ten-year-old Holly G is the winner of our competition to complete Francesca Simon's short story. Here's her nail-biting tale

The Magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton – review

OJ: 'I found these books really funny and exciting'

Astrosaurs Academy – Space Kidnap by Steve Cole – review

laurie: 'Read the other books in the series first'

Little Old Mrs Pepperpot by Alf Proysen – review

SuperBen: 'I like it because it is full of adventures'

Finn Family Moomintroll by Tove Jansson – review

anteater: 'Exciting and the characters are very well described'

The Worst Witch by Jill Murphy – review

KittyBear: 'I think other people would like to read this book because it is funny'

Me and You by Anthony Browne – review

Laurenska: 'the pictures are nice and I love the ending'

Marshall Armstrong is New to Our School by David Mackintosh – review

MoonMillie: 'the story is really, really good and fantastic because it's strange and weird'

Write a short story – competition

Can you finish a short story started by famous author Francesca Simon? Here's your chance

Lost Dr Seuss stories to be published

Tales from the 50s discovered by avid fan in old magazines due out in new book

Maurice Sendak returns to being author-illustrator after 30 years

Where the Wild Things Are creator to publish Bumble-Ardy, the tale of a young pig's birthday party, in September

Shadow by Michael Morpurgo – review

AlfiePool: I think anyone would enjoy it, it's so brilliant

Post navigation

← Older posts
Newer posts →
  • Latest Sarah J Maas book becomes UK’s fastest-selling adult fantasy novel
  • ‘A trailblazer in the truest sense’: poet Grace Nichols wins £10,000 Pioneer prize
  • True crime novel about 1949 murder of Paris life model wins France’s biggest literary prize
  • ‘His voice was too queer – so they silenced him’: how Spain’s national poet Lorca finally became a gay icon
  • ‘The world is out of control’: how political strategist Claire Ainsley is challenging the left to take it back
  • Carrie at 50: Brian De Palma’s fiery masterpiece still has the power
  • Citizen Kim by Jonathan Van Meter review – Kardashian under the microscope
  • Lords of Serendipity by Randy Boyagoda review – a campus satire for this moment of crisis
  • Ruth Brook-Klauber obituary
  • ‘Sad lost souls’: Taika Waititi lambasts critics after Klara and the Sun box-office disaster
  • From puregatory to lifehoarding – how best to describe our strange, anxious times?
  • The Rhyl Poster by Tom McCarthy review – is this avant-garde spy drama worth the riddles?
  • Pay Attention by Laura Kuenssberg review – a BBC reporter’s howl of frustration
  • Alex Garland’s Elden Ring adaptation is on course to be Hollywood’s goriest ever fantasy movie
  • Love the C word? You might be Australian. Hate it? You might be American
  • Like many authors, I’m bombarded by scam fan mail. I wasn’t prepared for what would happen when I wrote back
  • Unseen Harry Houdini writing published on 100th anniversary of his death
  • What we’re reading: Ian Rankin, Louise Kennedy and Guardian readers on the books they enjoyed in October
  • ‘Being hated is very bracing’: Helen Garner on surviving three marriages and being called a ‘rotten feminist’
  • Nigel’s ‘chiselled cheekbones’ make the news – Reform’s the Reformer, digested by John Crace
  • The Guardian view on 50 years of The Selfish Gene: flawed, outdated, yet still a model of truly popular science writing
  • I wrote a book about death. Here’s what people really think about dying
  • The best recent translated fiction – review roundup
  • Philippa Gregory: ‘I read 100 of the 18th century’s most popular novels – the perfect author’s apprenticeship’
  • ‘I saw the script and went: oooh!’ Olivia Colman and Alexander Skårsgard on their steamy folk-horror movie Wicker
  • Ike Ong obituary
  • Sarah Howe wins Forward poetry prize for best collection
  • Bram Stoker’s Dracula audiobook review – cinematic horror with an A-list cast
  • Hometown by Shaun Tan review – another masterpiece from the acclaimed author-illustrator
  • If British Library reading rooms become ‘co-working spaces’, what, exactly, is a national library for?

Contact www.ourdailyread.com   Terms of Use