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BfK No. 148 - September 2004

Cover Story
This issue's cover illustration is from Martin Jenkins' retelling of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver, illustrated by Chris Riddell. Chris Riddell is interviewed by Joanna Carey. Thanks to Walker Books for their help with this September cover.

BfK No. 148 Articles

Editorial - September 2004

News and comment from the Editor.
Friends for Ever

Meg Errington on friendship in the novels of Jacqueline Wilson.
Collecting, Selecting and Anthologising Poetry - the CLPE Award

Morag Styles on the CLPE Poetry Award.
Authorgraph No.148: Chris Riddell

Chris Riddell interviewed by Joanna Carey.
The Excitement of New Fiction

Julia Eccleshare on the Branford Boase Award.
BfK Briefing - September 2004

Awards * Letters to the Editor * News

 
Useful Organisations No.35: The National Art Library

Collection of nearly 100,000 children's publications.
Hal's Reading Diary - September 2004

Roger Mills on Hal's disregard for phonics.
I Wish I'd Written... Tales of the Norse Gods

Melvin Burgess chooses Barbara Leonie Picard's retelling of the Tales of the Norse Gods.
Good Reads: Mayfield School, Portsmouth

Reviews from pupils of Mayfield School, Portsmouth.
Classics in Short No.47: The Cuckoo Clock

Brian Alderson on Mrs Molesworth's The Cuckoo Clock.

Editor's Choice

Boing!
Sean Taylor
(Walker Books Ltd)
5

Practising a 'deadly difficult, quadruple, headfirst flip', the Great Elastic Marvel (five times World Trampolining Champion) misses his trampoline and plunges out of a high storey window. Absorbed in a TV cartoon, his son Felix does not notice...

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New Talent

Come Clean
Terri Paddock
(Collins Flamingo)
4

In the 1980s in the USA Paddock's sister was sent to a private rehabilitation centre for young drug users. This facility misapplied philosophies borrowed from Alcoholics Anonymous and mixed them with extreme forms of peer group pressure including...

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All Children's Book Reviews in BfK No. 148

  • Under 5s
  • Ages 5-8
  • Ages 8-10
  • Ages 10-14
  • Ages 14+
  • Books About Children's Books

Under 5s

  • Boing!
    Sean Taylor
    5

  • Tiny's Big Adventure
    Martin Waddell
    5

  • Riddledy Piggledy
    Tony Mitton
    4

  • Itzy Bitzy House
    Christine Morton-Shaw
    4

  • Belonging
    Jeannie Baker
    4

  • Choo Choo Clickety-Clack!
    Margaret Mayo
    3

  • What We Do; Where We Live
    Reg Cartwright
    3

  • Eric and the Red Planet
    Caroline Glicksman
    3

  • Animals: A First Art Book
    Lucy Micklethwait
    3

  • Watch Out, Wilf!
    Jan Fearnley
    3

  • Olly and Me
    Shirley Hughes
    3

  • A Lovely Day for Amelia Goose
    Yu Rong
    3

  • Maisy's Twinkly Crinkly Counting Book
    Lucy Cousins
    3

  • The Fox and the Stork
    2

  • My World, Your World
    Melanie Walsh
    2

Ages 5-8

  • Tigress
    Nick Dowson
    5

  • Angel Pavement
    Quentin Blake
    5

  • Goldie at the Orphanage
    Martha Sandwall-Bergstršm
    4

  • Vote for Duck
    Doreen Cronin
    4

  • Oceans; Rivers & Lakes; Woods & Forests
    John Norris Wood
    3

  • The Dead Letter Box
    Jan Mark
    3

  • A Gift for the King; Jumping Josie
    Damian Harvey
    3

  • Milly, Molly and Jimmy's Seeds; Milly, Molly and Betelgeuse
    Gill Pittar
    3

  • Dali and the Path of Dreams
    Anna Obiols
    3

  • Little Albatross
    Michael Morpurgo
    3

Ages 8-10

  • The Story of London
    Richard Brassey
    5

  • The Seal Children
    Jackie Morris
    5

  • Islam
    Alison Cooper
    4

  • Hunkin's Experiments
    Tim Hunkin
    3

  • Goldkeeper
    Sally Prue
    3

Ages 10-14

  • Bullied; Young Offender
    Angela Neustatter
    Anastasia Gonis
    5

  • Useful Idiots
    Jan Mark
    5

  • The Star of Kazan
    Eva Ibbotson
    5

  • Scorpia
    Anthony Horowitz
    5

  • The Summerhouse
    Alison Prince
    5

  • The Monster That Ate the Universe
    Roger Stevens
    5

  • The Stratford Boys
    Jan Mark
    4

  • Grass for his Pillow
    Lian Hearn
    4

  • Wolf Brother
    Michelle Paver
    4

  • The Edge
    Alan Gibbons
    4

  • Crying for the Enemy
    Elizabeth Lutzeier
    4

  • Fallout
    Nick Manns
    4

  • Tennis
    Venus Williams
    Serena Williams
    3

  • The Spook's Apprentice
    Joseph Delaney
    3

  • The Supernaturalist
    Eoin Colfer
    3

  • The Flame Tree
    Richard Lewis
    3

  • The Fugitives
    Alex Shearer
    3

  • Invisible Threads
    Annie Dalton
    Maria Dalton
    3

  • Horace
    Chris D'Lacey
    3

  • The Gladiators from Capua
    Caroline Lawrence
    3

  • Hazel, Not a Nut
    Gill Lobel
    3

  • Snap
    Alison McGhee
    2

Ages 14+

  • In the Shadow of the Ark
    Anne Provoost
    5

  • Sardines and other poems
    Stephen Knight
    5

  • Israel and Palestine
    Michael Gallagher
    4

  • Boy Kills Man
    Matt Whyman
    4

  • Come Clean
    Terri Paddock
    4

  • The Pack
    Tom Pow
    4

Books About Children's Books

  • Edward Ardizzone
    Brian Alderson
    5

  • Early Years Non-Fiction
    Margaret Mallett
    5

  • Animus and Anima in Fairy Tales
    Mary-Louise Von Franz
    3

  • New Voices in Children's Literature Criticism
    3

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OU AND MACMILLAN CHILDREN’S BOOKS LAUNCH BOOK CHAT SCHEME

The Open University (OU) is launching Book Chat: Reading with your Child, a resource which comprises three short films and support materials to help parents, families and carers read books conversationally and creatively to children. Working with Macmillan Children’s Books, the films use a selection of their picture books and a poetry collection to support families with reading to different ages of children.

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TOM PALMER WINS THE CHILDREN’S BOOK AWARD 2020

Tom Palmer

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Zaro Weil wins 2020 CLiPPA (CLPE Children’s Poetry Award)

Poet Zaro Weil was today announced the winner of the annual poetry award, CLiPPA (Centre for Literacy in Primary Poetry Award) for her collection of nature poems, Cherry Moon, published by ZaZaKids Books/ Troika Books and illustrated by Junli Song.

CLiPPA winner

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CILIP CARNEGIE AND KATE GREENAWAY SHADOWERS’ CHOICE AWARDS TO DEAN ATTA AND KADIR NELSON

The winners of the CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Shadowers’ Choice Awards, voted for by children and young people, have been announced.

The Black Flamingo

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LONGLISTS ANNOUNCED FOR 2021 UKLA BOOK AWARDS

UKLA award

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EVA ELAND NAMED WINNER OF THE FIFTH KLAUS FLUGGE PRIZE

Eva Eland has won the 2020 Klaus Flugge Prize for the most exciting and promising newcomer to children’s picture book illustration. She won for her book When Sadness Comes to Call (Andersen Press), in which a young child opens the door to an unexpected visitor, Sadness, personified as a semi-transparent amorphous shape.

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THE JHALAK PRIZE: A NEW PRIZE FOR BOOKS FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS WRITTEN BY WRITERS OF COLOUR

Jhalak Prize logo

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LIZ HYDER AND EDITOR SARAH ODEDINA WIN 2020 BRANFORD BOASE AWARD

Branford Boase Award logo

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UK NOMINATIONS IBBY’S OUTSTANDING BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES 2021

Every two years, IBBY invites nominations from national sections for its international list of Outstanding Books for Young People with Disabilities. The final list is selected from these by the IBBY Documentation Centre of Books for Young People with Disabilities, based in Toronto. Because of its international content, the list is unique in the children’s book world. It is a huge voluntary undertaking as every country is encouraged to submit up to twelve titles across the three categories.

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NEW CROWD-FUNDED CHILDREN’S BOOK TO RETELL BRITAIN’S OLDEST STORIES

Children’s Laureate of Wales, Eloise Williams and author Matt Brown have launched a new crowdfunded project, The Mab.

The Mab

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