2010 / Library book / 224 pages
****
Having previously enjoyed a junior graphic novel about a roller-skating injury, I knew she'd find this unflinching braces drama similarly morbidly fascinating, though the bloody accident scene was a bit too intense for her.
2016 / Library book / 32 pages
**
The title did suggest it was more for the hardcore hydrophile than someone looking forward to her first swimming lesson, but it detailed the basic moves that I tried to helpfully demonstrate on dry land.
2025 / Library book / 32 pages
**
It gets a point for flirting with frightening imagery, most unicorn picture books wouldnae be so bold.
2020 / Library book / 96 pages
****
Half-term home school in a book.
1993 (collected 1994) / Paperback / 32 pages
***
I didn't know they'd actually released some Sonic the Comic collections in paperback back then. While it's very slim, and not the classic stories you'd really want, these are at least some formative Kitching-Elsons for curiosity and nostalgia on my part.
