Judy Blume’s Superfudge was in our tiny school library, and I wolfed it down at the age of eight. From then, I was side-by-side with all of Judy’s kids, right the way up to 17-year-old Katherine in Fo

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As a child, I loved the Milly-Molly-Mandy books written by Joyce Lankester Brisley and of course I wanted to be that little girl in her perfect pink and white striped dress! I think what appealed to m

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