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Emma Cox

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‘This story of an amnesiac’s confusion is confusing’: the class book review

3 February 2017

‘Reading is the most powerful gift we can give a child: it puts stardust in their imaginations’

Child readers bring more magic to the party. They can imagine the things they will never do. They can make mistakes, experience untold terrors and even die. Children’s Book Week is cause to celebrate, says this English teacher and children’s author

2 November 2016

‘When I learn something that makes my writing better, the first people I want to tell are the children I teach’

Teachers and authors use the same processes: they try to explain the pictures in their heads. Writing her first novel has, therefore, helped this English teacher to improve her classroom practice

15 July 2016

‘So derivative that you just want to put it down’: the class book review

Wolf Hollow was ‘a little tedious’ and featured ‘the most stereotypical female protagonist I’ve ever read’, our pupil reviewers say. Their teacher, however, disagrees

1 July 2016

The class book review: Knights of the Borrowed Dark, by Dave Rudden

1 April 2016