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TV historian takes liberties with Victorian history: the class book review
Lucy Worsley’s novelisation of Queen Victoria’s childhood illustrates the lives of the 19th-century upper classes, but ends with a shocking cliffhanger
17 March 2017
‘The new sequel to Black Beauty is a book I could read with my sister’: the class book review
There is plenty of drama in this tale of loss, horse-whispering and cross-dressing, our reviewers say
9 December 2016
‘The children galloped through its pages’: the class book review
TV presenter Clare Balding climbs into the authorial saddle, with a children’s novel about a recalcitrant racehorse. The story canters along so successfully that one of our reviewers was told off for reading under her desk
23 September 2016
‘Brain-bogglingly weird’: the class book review
The new book by Allan Ahlberg, author of Each Peach Pear Plum, offers a novel way of learning the two times-table. It is, our six- to eight-year-old reviewers say, very exciting...but a bit weird
22 July 2016