Once Upon A Big Bad WolfYou know the story now lets change it! Shortlisted for the InspiREAD Book Award 2025! Have you ever wondered why the Mean Old Witch is mean? Or why the Big Bad Wolf is bad? They werent always that way The Big Bad Wolf used to be small and sweet. But when a witch was mean to him, everything changed The Mean Old Witch used to be young and kind, singing to the birds and picking up litter, until an unfortunate encounter with a Horrible Stinky Troll

Madeleine wants to be remembered: Madeleine wants love

Today I might trace the rungs of her larynx or tap at her trachea like the bones of a xylophone or cook up or undo some great horrors of my own because here is the thing about bodies: they are impossibly easy to prowl

hugely entertaining

Can Nene help this spirit overcome her regret and self-loathing and find her way home

As penance for his actions he is condemned to wander the earth

by virtue of her marriage to an army man

Can they stop the curse in its tracks before the Island is lost for ever

And I'd do anything to make things right with her

It demonstrates how we can all benefit from a dose of poetry in our daily lives

No book on the Tour de France has ever got quite as close to the race as this account of the 2003 and 2004 races from inside the security cordon

Karl Popper (1902-1994)

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