Children's literature | Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires https://anitamathias.com Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art Sun, 21 Nov 2010 23:16:00 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://anitamathias.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/cropped-Anita_lgr_hi_res_square_512-32x32.jpg Children's literature | Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires https://anitamathias.com 32 32 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows https://anitamathias.com/2010/11/21/harry-potter-and-the-deathly-hallows/ Sun, 21 Nov 2010 23:16:00 +0000 https://anitamathias.com/2010/11/21/harry-potter-and-the-deathly-hallows/ Harry Potter and the Deathly HallowsGosh, Harry Potter has been so much a part of our family’s life over the last decade. We started listening to them on tape in 2002 when Irene was not yet 3. When we got into our mini-van, she would demand, “Hally Potter.”I read the girls all the books, even […]

The post Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows first appeared on Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires.]]> The White Darkness by Geraldine McCaughrean https://anitamathias.com/2010/09/06/the-white-darkness-by-geraldine-mccaughrean/ https://anitamathias.com/2010/09/06/the-white-darkness-by-geraldine-mccaughrean/#comments Mon, 06 Sep 2010 21:33:00 +0000 https://anitamathias.com/2010/09/06/the-white-darkness-by-geraldine-mccaughrean/ The White Darkness by Geraldine McCaughreanWe listened to this on CD during our holiday in France recently. We were mesmerized initially but the tale of misadventure and extreme polar suffering did pall eventually.Splendid description of Antarctica. I met Geraldine McCaughrean at a Writers in Oxford/Society of Authors party in Oxford a couple of months ago, […]

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