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The title We Loved Your Book So Much We Ate It refers to an anecdote of Maurice Sendak’s, from an interview with Terry Gross — ‘Sendak on Childhood.’, Fresh Air, 15 April 1986. The story comes towards the end of the recording, between 26:50–27:48.

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Recent Books

Secret water (1995) 2 stars

Secret water

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Secret Water is the eighth book in Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons series of children's books. It was published on 28 November 1939.This book is set in and around Hamford Water in Essex, close to the resort town of Walton-on-the-Naze. It starts only a few days after We Didn't Mean …

Greenwood (Paperback, en-Latn-CA language, 2020, Scribe) 5 stars

Greenwood

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Females (Paperback, en-Latn-US language, 2019, Verso) 4 stars

Females

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Everything Feels Like the End of the World (Paperback, en-Latn-AU language, 2022, Allen & Unwin) 1 star

Everything Feels Like the End of the World

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This Life (Paperback, en-Latn-US language, 2018, Profile Books) 3 stars

This Life

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The Surprising Power of a Good Dumpling (AudiobookFormat, en-Zxxx-AU language, 2023, ABC Audio) 4 stars

The Surprising Power of a Good Dumpling

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A compelling young adult story about growing up in a migrant Asian family with a mother who is suffering from a mental illness, which was shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Awards.

Anna Chiu has her hands full looking after her siblings and helping out at her dad’s restaurant, all …