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Books for Keeps 180 - the children's book magazine online

BfK No. 180 - January 2010
BfK 180 January 2010

Cover Story
This issue’s cover illustration is from Cressida Cowell’s How to Train Your Dragon. Cressida Cowell is interviewed by Clive Barnes. Thanks to Hodder Children’s Books for their help with this January cover.

BfK No. 180 Articles

Editorial – January 2010

News and comment from the Editor.

Children’s Laureate Anthony Browne on appreciating picture books

Anthony Browne discusses sources of inspiration.

Movables: Paper Engineering Techniques and Their Use and Development in Children’s Books

Mike Simkin and Rosemary Temperley explain.

Multi-lingual Storytelling

Anna McQuinn discusses storytelling with children with different home languages.

Authorgraph No.180: Cressida Cowell

Cressida Cowell interviewed by Clive Barnes

Sharon Creech: a writer who takes risks

Sharon Creech talks to Julia Eccleshare about her latest book.

BfK Briefing – January 2010

AWARDS

Hal’s Reading Diary – January 2010

Roger Mills on sharing the Harry Potter books at bedtime.

I Wish I’d Written…: Jeffy, the Burglar’s Cat

Hilda Offen chooses Ursula Moray Williams’s Jeffy, the Burglar’s Cat.

Good Reads: Trafalgar Junior School, Twickenham, Middlesex.

Reviews from pupils of Trafalgar Junior School Readers and Writers Club

 

Classics in Short No.79: When We Were Very Young

Brian Alderson on A A Milne’s When We Were Very Young

Editor's Choice

Red Ted and the Lost Things

Michael Rosen
(Walker Books Ltd)
5

This small format picture book takes the form of a graphic novel. Red Ted has been left behind on the train and is taken to lost property where he is placed on a shelf beside Crocodile. After initial despair Red Ted is determined to be reunited...

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New Talent

Red Riding Hood: A Pop-Up Book

Louise Rowe
(Tango Books)
4

A palette of Autumnal browns and greys characterises the exquisite collage forest landscapes in this stylish pop-up version of the Grimms’ tale. Leaves, branches, the wolf’s fur, grandmother’s cottage are all rendered in warm sepia tones and rich...

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All Children's Book Reviews in BfK No. 180

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

Under 5s

  • Winnie’s Amazing Pumpkin

    Valerie Thomas
    5
  • Morris the Mankiest Monster

    Giles Andreae
    5
  • Aliens Love Underpants

    Claire Freedman
    5
  • The Dolls’ House Fairy

    Jane Ray
    5
  • Goldilocks and the Three Bears

    Emma Chichester Clark
    5
  • Sleepy or Not, Mr Croc?

    Jo Lodge
    4
  • Cross Crocodile

    Mwenye Hadithi
    4
  • Red Riding Hood: A Pop-Up Book

    Louise Rowe
    4
  • Food Chain

    M P Robertson
    3

Ages 5-8

  • Tabby McTat

    Julia Donaldson
    5
  • Emily Brown and the Elephant Emergency

    Cressida Cowell
    5
  • Red Ted and the Lost Things

    Michael Rosen
    5
  • Ella Bella Ballerina and Cinderella

    James Mayhew
    4
  • Christopher Nibble

    Charlotte Middleton
    4
  • Mrs Cockle’s Cat

    Philippa Pearce
    4
  • The Flight of the Mermaid

    Gita Wolf
    Sirish Rao
    3
  • The Dunderheads

    Paul Fleischman
    3
  • Valentine’s Day

    Berlie Doherty
    3
  • Purple Class and the Half-Eaten Sweater

    Sean Taylor
    3
  • Number Rhymes: Tens and Teens

    Opal Dunn
    2
  • Choking Wolf ¦ Melting Snowman ¦ Injured Spider

    Dosh Archer
    0

Ages 8-10

  • Shapeshifters: Tales from Ovid’s Metamorphoses

    5
  • Madame Pamplemousse and the Time-Travelling Café

    Rupert Kingfisher
    5
  • The Willoughbys

    Lois Lowry
    5
  • New and Collected Poems for Children

    Carol Ann Duffy
    5
  • The Squirrel’s Birthday and Other Parties ¦ Letters to Anyone and Everyone

    Toon Tellegen
    4
  • The Poison Garden

    Sarah Singleton
    4
  • Charlie Bone and the Red Knight

    Jenny Nimmo
    4
  • How Things Work

    Conrad Mason
    4
  • The Comic Strip History of Space

    Sally Kindberg
    Tracey Turner
    4
  • Fabulous Bridges

    Ian Graham
    4
  • Bodies ¦ Creepy-Crawlies ¦ Dinosaurs ¦ Egyptians

    Philip Ardagh
    4
  • Midsummer Knight

    Gregory Rogers
    3
  • Mr Stink

    David Walliams
    3
  • Wolven

    Di Toft
    3
  • The New Children’s Encyclopedia

    Author and Illustrator Unknown
    2

Ages 10-14

  • Beyond the Barricade ¦ Chalkline

    Deborah Ellis
    5
  • The Secrets of Codes

    Paul Lunde
    5
  • Free? Stories Celebrating Human Rights

    4
  • Desperate Measures

    Laura Summers
    4
  • No Such Thing as Dragons

    Philip Reeve
    4
  • The Crowfield Curse

    Pat Walsh
    4
  • Running Wild

    Michael Morpurgo
    4
  • Hush, Hush

    Becca Fitzpatrick
    4
  • The Credit Crunch

    Colin Hynson
    4
  • Out of Iraq: Refugees’ Stories in Words, Paintings and Music

    Sybella Wilkes
    4
  • Aids ¦ Child Labour ¦ Hunger ¦ Poverty ¦ Violence ¦ War

    Otto James
    4
  • The Spitting Cobra

    Gill Harvey
    3
  • What to do About Holly

    Joan Lingard
    3
  • Under the Weather: Stories About Climate Change

    3
  • Where the Streets Had a Name

    Randa Abdel-Fattah
    3
  • The Death Defying Pepper Roux

    Geraldine McCaughrean
    3
  • Tom Fletcher and the Three Wise Men

    Sarah Matthias
    3
  • Troubadour

    Mary Hoffman
    3
  • The Glittering Eye

    L J Adlington
    3
  • Scat

    Carl Hiaasen
    3
  • Sustainable Cities

    Angela Royston
    3
  • Wow! Earth ¦ Wow! Animal

    John Woodward
    3

Ages 14+

  • The Bride’s Farewell

    Meg Rosoff
    5
  • Girls to Total Goddesses

    Sue Limb
    4
  • Shiver

    Maggie Stiefvater
    4
  • Skinned

    Robin Wasserman
    3

Books About Children's Books

  • The Complete Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault

    5
  • 1001 Children’s Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up

    3

BfK News

Blue Peter Book Award Winners Announced 2010

Frozen in TimeFrozen in Time by Ali Sparkes is the winner of this year’s Blue Peter Book Awards. The results were announced on a special episode of Blue Peter broadcast 3 March on BBC One in honour of World Book Day.

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Do! wins 2010 Bologna Ragazzi New Horizons Award

Do! coverTara Books, the independent publisher from Chennai, south India, has won the 2010 Bologna Ragazzi Award for the handmade children's title, Do!

The award, which will be presented at the Bologna Children's Book Fair in March, is designed to acknowledge publishing houses from the Arab countries, Latin America, Asia and Africa that show great innovative talent.

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The Red House Children's Book Award 2010 Shortlist announced

Red House Children's Book Award 2010

Ten books are on the short-list for this year's Red House Children's Book Award, announced today, Monday 22nd February.

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Katie Davies wins Waterstone’s Children’s Book Prize 2010

Kate Davies wins Waterstone's Children's Book prize

Debut author Katie Davies has won the Waterstone’s Children’s Book Prize 2010 for The Great Hamster Massacre (Simon and Schuster), a tale of a girl’s relentless quest for a pet hamster.

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Every primary pupil deserves a school library, says new Charter

The School Library Association (SLA) this month launches a new Primary School Library Charter arguing that investment in school libraries must start early, and quoting the UK Convention on the Rights of the Child to make its case.  Articles 13 of the Convention (‘freedom to see, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds, regardless of frontiers’) and 17 (‘encourage the . . . dissemination of children’s books’) imply effective library provision, the SLA states.

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Frances Lincoln buys Barn Owl Books - January 2010

Frances Lincoln have announced their acquisition of Barn Owl Books.

Ann Jungman, a popular author, started Barn Owl Books in 1999, carefully selecting out–of-print titles remembered as good reads by teachers, parents and grandparents alike, bringing the books back into print for a new generation of readers. She has been doing this, almost single-handed, ever since. Frances Lincoln have been Barn Owl’s distributors from the start.

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Write Away Annual Conference May 2010

Write Away Annual Conference May 2010

READ, PLAY, THINK, CREATE: generating delight in learning

This conference for teachers and librarians will provide:

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The Tower Hamlets Book Award 2009

Winner:

DIARY OF A WIMPY KID: RODRICK RULES

by Jeff Kinney, Puffin

The award is aimed at children aged 9 to 12 and the winning title is chosen by children in the borough. The award is now in its third year, with the selection and judging process running from March through to December.

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Winners of Royal Mail 2009 Awards for Scottish Children’s Books

John Fardell, Lari Don and Keith Gray have been named as this year’s winners for the 2009 Royal Mail Awards, Scotland’s largest children’s Book Prize which is voted for exclusively by Scottish children themselves.

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The 2009 Eleanor Farjeon Award

Sponsored by the Eleanor Farjeon estate.

was won by Moira Arthur who received her award on Tuesday 17th November 2009.

www.childrensbookcircle.org.uk

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