I’ve been a bit neglectful of checking in on Mark Avery recently, so I popped over to his website to see what he’s been reading these past months. Turns out, he’s been reading quite a few books for children.
Most recently – back at the end of June – he posted a short note about Winston’s Journey by Jane Murphy and Lorraine Berkshire-Roe.
The week prior he published a somewhat longer review of Irreplaceable; the Fight to Save Our Wild Places (not a book for children) by Julian Hoffman – although he didn’t seem particularly pleased with the book.
He did, however, seem very pleased with Eagle Warrior – a book for children which features a “dyslexia-friendly layout” – by Gill Lewis. The bit about the layout is intriguing – I’ve made a note to look more deeply into that element of book design.
An then, picking up where I last left him on my previous check-in back in May, he took Hugh Webster’s The Blue Hare as the subject for his Sunday Book Review that week – “just the sort of book [children] should be reading.”
Links to Mark Avery’s Sunday book reviews appear in The Well-read Naturalist by special arrangement. You can find all of Mark’s past reviews as well as a wide-ranging collection of his other writings on his Standing Up for Nature website. Mark’s opinions regarding the books he reviews are his own.
