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Big-Eyes the Enchanter and other stories
Big-Eyes the Enchanter and other stories by Enid Blyton is a collection of sixteen short stories titled Jinky and the Jumping...
The Flopperty Bird and other stories
The Flopperty Bird and other stories by Enid Blyton is a collection of fourteen short stories titled The Flopperty Bird, The...
An Extract from Resolution and Independence by William Wordsworth
There was a roaring in the wind all night; The rain came heavily and fell in floods; But now the sun is rising calm and bright;...
The Goblin's Toyshop and other stories
The Goblin's Toyshop and other stories by Enid Blyton is a collection of short stories titled The Goblin's Toyshop, The Little...
Love by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
All thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal frame, All are but ministers of Love, And feed his sacred...
The Little Old Toymaker and other stories
The Little Old Toymaker and other stories by Enid Blyton is a collection of fifteen short stories titled The Little Old Toymaker...
An Extract from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
CHAPTER IThe motives of the present work—Reception of the Author’s first publication—The discipline of his taste at school—The...
An Extract from The Nightingale by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A Conversation Poem, April, 1798.No cloud, no relique of the sunken dayDistinguishes the West, no long thin slipOf sullen light,...
The Enchanted Bellows and other stories
The Enchanted Bellows and other stories by Enid Blyton is a collection of eighteen short stories titled The Enchanted Bellows,...
Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll is the pseudonym of mathematician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, which he adopted when publishing his famous children’s...
An Extract from The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
St. Agnes’ Eve—Ah, bitter chill it was!        The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold;  ...
The Rabbit’s Whiskers and other stories
The Rabbit’s Whiskers and other stories by Enid Blyton is a collection of sixteen short stories titled The Conjuring Wizard, The...
An Extract from “My First Acquaintance with Poets”
When I got there, the organ was playing the 100th Psalm, and when it was done, Mr Coleridge rose and gave out his text, “And he...
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love by Christopher Marlowe
Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That Valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy...
Three Bold Pixies and other stories
Three Bold Pixies and other stories by Enid Blyton is a collection of sixteen short stories titled Three Bold Pixies, The Pixies...
Beatrix Potter
 "Born 150 years ago on July 28, the British children’s book author was far more subversive than you may have realised,...
An Extract from Dejection: An Ode
"Late, late yestreen I saw the new Moon, With the old Moon in her arms; And I fear, I fear, my Master dear! We shall have a...
The Brave Toy Soldier and other stories
The Brave Toy Soldier and other stories by Enid Blyton is a collection of eighteen short stories titled The Brave Toy Soldier,...
Enid Blyton
Enid Blyton also known as Mary Pollock was the most successful children’s writer of her generation. A prolific writer, she wrote...
La Belle Dame sans Merci A Ballad by John Keats
O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms,        Alone and palely loitering? The sedge has withered from...
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Argument How a Ship having passed the Line was driven by storms to the cold Country towards the South Pole; and how from thence...
The Tale of Bushy the Fox and other stories
The Tale of Bushy the Fox and other stories by Enid Blyton is a collection of fourteen short stories titled The Tale of Bushy the...
John Keats and ‘negative capability’
In December 1817 John Keats was returning from the Christmas pantomime with his friends Charles Wentworth Dilke and Charles Brown...
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of silence and slow time, Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A...
The Fly-Away Cottage and other stories
The Fly-Away Cottage and other stories by Enid Blyton is a collection of fourteen short stories titled The Flyaway Cottage, Lazy...
An Extract from Reflections on the Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Coleridge’s bad luck when each of his publications, whether poetical, philosophical, or journalistic, very regularly encountered...
An Extract from Frost at Midnight
The Frost performs its secret ministry, Unhelped by any wind. The owlet's cry Came loud—and hark, again! loud as before. The...
The Wishing Wand and other stories
The Wishing Wand and other stories by Enid Blyton is a collection of fourteen short stories titled The Wishing Wand, Mr. Big-Hat'...
First Prize
The Chamber of Secrets
The latest book I read is Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling. It was first published by Bloomsbury in 1998...
Second Prize
Nuwanaththo Jayagaththo
Among all the books I have read, I thoroughly enjoyed reading Nuwanaththo Jayagaththo by Soma Jayakody which was published in...
An Extract from the Ode to a Nightingale
My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains...
The Little Brownie House and other stories
The Little Brownie House and other stories by Enid Blyton is a collection of fourteen short stories titled The Little Brownie...
Second Prize
A Tale of Two Cities
I have read many books but among them, the most interesting book is A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. This story is about...
First Prize
Alex Rider: Eagle Strike
If there is a book series that a person would willingly read twice, it would be the Alex Rider series.An ingeniously written...
An Extract from the Ode to Immortality
By William Wordsworth There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem...
Dear Junior readers
The Junior Observer launches 'Junior Readers’ Club' to which we invite all the Junior Readers to join! The Junior Readers’ Club...
Mrs Dalloway
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf revolves around a day in the life of a middle aged woman named Clarissa Dalloway who is preparing...
Do not go gentle into that good night
Do not go gentle into that good night,  Old age should burn and rave at close of day;  Rage, rage against the...
Best book reviews: First Prize - Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens was first published as a book by Richard Bentley in 1839. It is a moving story about an orphaned...
Best book reviews: First Prize - Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens was first published as a book by Richard Bentley in 1839. It is a moving story about an orphaned...
Best book reviews: Second Prize- Son of Neptune
Among the books I have read, Son of Neptune which is the second book in the Heroes of Olympus series by Rick Riordan is my...
The Fairies’ Shoemaker and other stories
The Fairies’ Shoemaker and other stories by Enid Blyton is a collection of fourteen short stories titled Pinkity's Pranks, The...
First Prize
The Hooded Man
The latest book I read is The Hooded Man. It is the third book in the series Robin of Sherwood which is written by Richard...
Second Prize
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
I recently read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory written by Roald Dahl. The story is about a little boy named Charlie Bucket who...
The Second Coming
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere...
The Magic Clock and Other Stories
The Magic Clock and other stories by Enid Blyton is a collection of fifteen short stories titled The Magic Clock, The Balloon in...
First Prize
The Secret of the Moon Castle
 I recently read The Secret of Moon Castle by Enid Blyton which is a book in The Secret Series. It was first published in...
Second Prize
Beast Quest
 Beast Quest is a book series written by Adam Blade. In this series, an evil wizard named Malvel uses a spell to make six...
An Extract from Gitanjali
 IThou hast made me endless, such is thy pleasure. This frail vessel thou emptiest again and again, and fillest it ever with...
The Little Brown Bear and other stories
The Little Brown Bear and other stories by Enid Blyton is a collection of fifteen short stories titled Forgetful Fanny, The...

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