News and comment from the Editor.
Bloomsbury launch Troubadour in paperback
Caroline Sanderson discusses their importance.
Rosemary Stones chooses her top ten titles.
Jake Hope explains what libraries offer the very young.
Beverley Naidoo on the publishing history of a now classic title.
Leigh Hodgkinson on how she went about illustrating Scrummy!
Rick Riordan is interviewed by Julia Eccleshare.
Awards * News * Events
Roger Mills on the appeal of war stories to boy readers.
Cathy Hopkins chooses Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden.
Reviews from pupils of Fernwood School, Nottingham.
Brian Alderson on Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
Nicholas Tucker analyses the appeal of the vampire.
