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BfK No. 198 - January 2013
BfK 198 January 2013

This issue's cover illustration is by David Melling and is from We Love You, Hugless Douglas! Thanks to Hodder Children's Books for their help with this cover.

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BfK No. 198 Articles

2013: all change

What will 2013 hold
for the children’s book world?
An Awfully Interactive Adventure

Author Fleur Hitchcock explains www.thestoryadventure.com
Windows into Illustration: Jackie Morris

Jackie Morris on how she created the illustrations for ‘East of the
Sun, West of the Moon’.
Ten of the Best Books in Translation

Deborah Hallford of Outside In World chooses her top ten.
Literary Ventriloquism

Daniel Hahn on the translator’s art.
THERE’S SOMETHING ABOUT JANE

Caroline Sanderson asks how old do you have to be to read Jane Austen.
Authorgraph interview 198 Sally Gardner

Costa Award winner Sally Gardner interviewed by Clive Barnes.
There won’t be time for English in English

Robert Hull on the draft National Curriculum for English.
Hal's Reading Diary January 2013

Roger Mills looks back over eleven years of Hal’s reading.
Brilliant Bookshop Storytellers Inc. Lancashire

Katie Clapham on Storytellers Inc. Lancashire
Alex Shearer I Wish I'd Written

Alex Shearer chooses a sci fi classic.
Good Reads 198

Reviews from Monk Walk School, Welwyn Garden City.
Classic in Short 198

Brian Alderson on Nils Holgersson’s Wonderful Journey.
Q and A Interview with Hilary McKay

Hilary McKay answers questions about her new novel Binny for Short

Jan Ormerod 1946 – 2013

Jan Ormerod the author and illustrator has died after a short illness. Her friend Jana Hunter remembers her.
Q and A interview with C J Flood

C J FLood answers our questions on her debut novel Infinite Sky.

Editor's Choice

I Have the Right to Be a Child
Alain Serres
(Phoenix Yard Books)
5

Imagine the challenge of creating a picturebook from the 54 articles of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child: putting the articles into a language that can be understood by younger children, and, through words and pictures,...

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New Talent

The Weight of Water
Sarah Crossan
(Bloomsbury Childrens)
5

Kasienka and her mother come to Coventry from Poland, looking for Kasienka’s Tata (Father), who walked out on them two years earlier. Their story is told throughout in first person narrative by Kasienka. At school, where she is ‘Cassie’, Kasienka...

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All Children's Book Reviews in BfK No. 198

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

Under 5s

  • Big Book of Nursery Rhymes
    Kali Stileman
    5

  • We Love You, Hugless Douglas!
    David Melling
    4

  • Jumblebum
    Chae Strathie
    4

  • No-Bot: The Robot with No Bottom
    Sue Hendra
    3

  • Jack’s Mega Machines: The Dinosaur Digger
    Alise Ritchie
    3

  • Brave Squish Rabbit
    Katherine Battersby
    3

  • The Princess and the Pig
    Jonathan Emmett
    3

  • I Want a Boyfriend!
    Tony Ross
    3

Ages 5-8

  • I Have the Right to Be a Child
    Alain Serres
    5

  • Buzzing! Discover the poetry in garden minibeasts
    Anneliese Emmans Dean
    5

  • Monkey Nut
    Simon Rickerty
    5

  • Newspaper Boy and Origami Girl

    Michael Foreman
    5

  • Ernest and Celestine
    Gabrielle Vincent
    4

  • Winnie’s Dinosaur Day (Winnie the Witch)
    Valerie Thomas
    3

  • Super Soccer Boy and the Monster Mutants
    Judy Brown
    3

  • Poo Bum
    Stephanie Blake
    3

  • My Happy Life
    Rose Lagercrantz
    3

Ages 8-10

  • Fantastic Mr Dahl
    Michael Rosen
    5

  • Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Third Wheel
    Jeff Kinney
    5

  • Walter Tull's Scrapbook
    Michaela Morgan
    4

  • Just Imagine
    Pippa Goodhart
    4

  • Beast Quest: Ferrok the Iron Soldier
    Adam Blade
    4

  • The Snow Bear
    Holly Webb
    3

Ages 10-14

  • Terezín A Story of the Holocaust
    Ruth Thomson
    5

  • Fearless
    Cornelia Funke
    5

  • Geek Girl
    Holly Smale
    5

  • The Great Unexpected
    Sharon Creech
    5

  • The Fire Chronicle
    John Stephens
    5

  • Scramasax
    Kevin Crossley-Holland
    5

  • Geek Inc.Technoslime Terror!
    Mark Griffiths
    5

  • In the Sea there are Crocodiles
    Fabio Geda
    4

  • Midnight Pirates
    Ally Kennen
    4

  • Dead Romantic
    C J Skuse
    4

  • Lexiland
    Suzi Moore
    4

  • 101 Poets for Children: A Laureate’s Choice
    4

  • Sea of Whispers
    Tim Bowler
    3

  • Tree of Leaf and Flame
    Daniel Morden
    3

  • Oblivion
    Anthony Horowitz
    3

  • Shiverton Hall
    Emerald Fennell
    3

  • Darwen Arkwright and the Peregrine Pact
    A J Hartley
    3

  • Soldier Dog
    Sam Angus
    3

Ages 14+

  • The Weight of Water
    Sarah Crossan
    5

  • Hostage Three
    Nick Lake
    5

  • The Winds of Heaven
    Judith Clarke
    5

  • Being here
    Barry Jonsberg
    5

  • Ketchup Clouds
    Annabel Pitcher
    4

  • Legacy
    C.J. Daugherty
    4

  • How to Fall
    Jane Casey
    4

  • Sister Assassin
    Kiersten White
    4

  • A Pocketful of Eyes
    Lili Wilkinson
    3

  • The Fault in our Stars
    John Green
    3

  • From What I Remember
    Stacy Kramer
    Valerie Thomas
    3

  • Hunger
    Melvin Burgess
    2

  • Never Fall Down
    Patricia McCormick
    0

Books About Children's Books

  • John Burningham: Behind the Scenes

    John Burningham
    5

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LONGLISTS ANNOUNCED FOR 2021 CILIP CARNEGIE AND KATE GREENAWAY MEDALS

The longlist for the 2021 CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals have been announced.

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LONGLIST ANNOUNCED FOR 2021 KLAUS FLUGGE PRIZE

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NOW OPEN: 2021 HENRIETTA BRANFORD WRITING COMPETITION

Finish a story started by Branford Boase Award winner Liz Hyder

The Henrietta Branford Writing Competition, the annual competition for young people which runs in conjunction with the Branford Boase Award, is now open.

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TWO UK ENTRIES ON IBBY LIST OF OUTSTANDING BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES

Every two years, IBBY invites nominations for its international List of Outstanding Books for Young People with Disabilities. Nominations are made by IBBY national sections and 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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LONGLIST FOR THE 2021 BRANFORD BOASE AWARD

The longlist for the 2021 Branford Boase Award has been announced. Set up in memory of award-winning author Henrietta Branford and her editor Wendy Boase, one of the founders of Walker Books, the Branford Boase Award is given annually to the author of an outstanding debut novel for children.

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NATASHA FARRANT WINS 2020 COSTA CHILDREN’S BOOK AWARD

Natasha Farrant

Writer and literary scout Natasha Farrant has won the 2020 Costa Children’s Book Award for Voyage of the Sparrowhawk, a book which the judges described as ‘pure heavenly escapism and a purely joyful read.’

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ROBIN WALKER WINS THE 2020 ALCS EDUCATIONAL WRITERS’ AWARD FOR BLACK HISTORY MATTERS

The winner of the 2020 ALCS Educational Writers’ Award is Black History Matters: The Story of Black History, From African Kingdoms to Black Lives Matter. Written by acclaimed Black historian, Robin Walker, the 2020 judges praised this accessible, comprehensive and inspiring book which provides a timely introduction both to Black history and the Black Lives Matter movement.

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IBBY UK nominate Marcus Sedgwick and David McKee for the Hans Christian Andersen Award 2022

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SHORTLIST FOR THE COSTA CHILDREN’S BOOK AWARD 2020

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The shortlist for the 2020 Costa Children’s Book Award has been announced. No less than 146 books were submitted and from those the judges have chosen a shortlist of four. They are:

Wranglestone by Darren Charlton (Little Tiger)

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CLPE Reflecting Realities Report 2020

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