Kate's Blog

Children's author Margaret Mahy died earlier this week. Her books are beloved by millions, and many are the tributes pouring in, from ...

The Olympics have not yet even begun and already the non-British media coverage is annoying me. Perhaps the British press will be equally ap...

Wow! What a team. What a performance. What a commitment! I've heard people say that they are boring - clearly these people know nothing ...

Last night I went to watch The Dark Knight Rises . With the exception of Anne Hathaway, everything about it was brilliant, and, in her def...

The following are short reviews of the books that I read in March 2012. The marks I have given them in the brackets are out of five.   T...

I love bears. Since the turn of last century, inspired by President Theodore Roosevelt , thousands of toy bears have been produced so t...

According to a recent 'fact' I heard on morning television (so it must be true), nine out of ten new drivers learn to drive in an...