Have you noticed a disturbing trend in your teenager’s reading material lately? Has a change from lively and engaging child into sullen and difficult teenager coincided with them ditching adventures by the likes of Lauren Child or Michael Morpurgo for bleak futuristic fantasies about violent 16-year-olds or grimly realistic tales
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I want to play. Nah, not the awful depressing ‘adult’ variety of play that plagues us with requests in our junk mail folder. I want to play like a child. You see I’ve just read Sarah Salway’s piece for the issue of Mslexia I am editing (out in September). It’s
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This article first appeared in Mslexia, issue 53 Sea creatures are replacing vampires as the latest fantasy trend. Danuta Kean investigates A wave of mermaids and selkies threatens to wash away vampires and angels in popular fiction, as young adults turn from the sky to the sea for literary escape . But
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