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OH THIS IS BRILLIANT!

New Hilary McKay Casson book!

(The cover looks APPALLING, and even if I weren't firmly opposed to publishers changing the covers of new titles so that the series doesn't match, I do not like photos on books.)

New Casson book! It's called Caddy's World, and it's about Caddy when she was younger and Rose was just born. It comes out in May, and that's not now, but it is pretty soon. I'm so glad that she went back on her statement that it was the last book. (Maybe she will write more Exiles too? I would like that.)

Has anyone read Hilary McKay's Pudding Bag School series? I thought that she'd only written books for younger children apart from Cassons, Exiles and Dog Friday, but her site suggests that it's for ages 9-12 like the others.

I am going to read back issues of Rose's blog now.

At my supervision today I was told that my chapter (well, 1/4 of a chapter) was "a pleasure to read".