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Booktrust finds Best Children’s Book of All Time...

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Write Away Autumn Conference – October 2008…

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Old Possum’s Children’s Poetry Competition 2008 details...

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The Frances Lincoln Diverse Voices Children’s Book Award announced...

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The Children’s Bookshow 2008 - Picture Books and Poetry...

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CLPE Poetry Award for 2008 announced...

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British IBBY/NCRCL MA Conference, November 15th 2008 at Roehampton University, London...

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Branford Boase Award 2008: Winner Announced...

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The bath festival of children’s literature announces line-up for second festival for 19th-28th September, 2008...

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The 2008 Essex Book Award has been awarded to Tim Lott...

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Hampshire Children’s and Schools Library Services announces the Hampshire Illustrated Book Award...

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2008 English 4-11 Best Children’s Illustrated Book Awards... (for books published in 2007)

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Jane Nissen wins the Eleanor Farjeon Award 2007...

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Michael Rosen launches the appeal to Save A Literary Barn Owl!

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The Reading Agency’s website where reading, young people, libraries and the virtual meet – will go live In 2008

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November 2008Issue No. 173 - November 2008
September 2008Issue No. 172 - September 2008
July 2008Issue No. 171 - July 2008
May 2008Issue No. 170 - May 2008
March 2008Issue No. 169 - March 2008
January 2008Issue No. 168 - January 2008
November 2007Issue No. 167 - November 2007
September 2007Issue No. 166 - September 2007
July 2007Issue No. 165 - July 2007
May 2007Issue No. 164 - May 2007
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Articles

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November 2008Hal’s Reading Diary – November 2008
November 2008Good Reads - Shavington High School
November 2008Sounding Off! Some noisy picture books
November 2008Ten of the Best Christmas Books
November 2008Laureate Log - November 2008
November 2008I wish I’d written… - Moominland Midwinter
November 2008Editorial - November 2008
November 2008Classics in Short - Mog the Forgetful Cat
November 2008Philippa Pearce – Word Perfect
November 2008Authorgraph No.173 - Ralph Steadman
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Reviews

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November 2008Animal Families
November 2008Take a Flight
November 2008Mrs Muffly's Monster
November 2008The Ship's Kitten
November 2008The Trap
November 2008Are the Clothes Clean?
November 2008Spellbound
November 2008ABC UK
November 2008Little Beauty
November 2008British Children's Fiction in the Second World War
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Issue Contents

Articles

  • Editorial – September 2007
  • The Depiction of the Slave Trade in Children’s Books
  • Reading in the Middle Years (9-11):
  • The CLPE Poetry Award 2007
  • The New Children’s Laureate: Michael Rosen
  • Authorgraph No. 166 - William Nicholson
  • BfK Briefing - September 2007
  • Hal’s Reading Diary - September 2007
  • Good Reads - York Steiner School
  • Classics in Short No 65 - Kidnapped and Catriona

Reviews

  • A Place in the Middle
  • Abela
  • Agent Amelia: Ghost Diamond!
  • Apache
  • Ask Dr K Fisher about Animals
  • Buzz
  • Captain Wag the Pirate Dog
  • Careless
  • Children's Literature: Some Marxist Perspectives
  • City of Bones
  • Count Your Way through Afghanistan
  • Count Your Way through Iran
  • Creaky Castle: Tom's Dragon Trouble
  • Crusade
  • Damian Drooth Supersleuth
  • Dark Alchemy: Magical Tales from Masters of Modern Fantasy
  • Dino Doggy
  • Doctor Miaow's Big Emergency
  • Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion
  • Forever Family
  • Ghaddar the Ghoul and other Palestinian Stories
  • Giants
  • Girl, 15 - Flirting for England
  • Global Debt: The impact on our lives
  • Good Girls
  • Growl, Growl, On The Prowl!
  • Here's a Little Poem
  • High Jinx
  • Hunky Dory
  • Immigration
  • Inside You
  • King Pom and the Fox
  • Lion Fables
  • Look Out, He's Behind You
  • Melrose and Croc Go to Town
  • Mouldylocks and the Three Clares
  • New World
  • Orphan of the Sun
  • Oswald and the End of the World
  • Over a Thousand Hills I Walk With You
  • Play With Me! A Dottie Duck Book
  • Pride and Penalties
  • Princess Pigsty
  • Princess Poppy: Friends Together
  • Princess Poppy: The Baby Twins
  • Shamanka
  • Skulduggery Pleasant
  • Slavery: From Africa to the Americas
  • Snappy Green
  • Snowbone
  • Spy Dog Unleashed
  • Squeak Street: Old Bun and the Burglar
  • Squeak Street: One-Shoe's Wishes
  • Squeak,Squeak, Take A Peek!
  • Tamburlaine's Elephants
  • Ten Things I Hate About Me
  • Terry Deary's Greek Tales: The Boy Who Cried Horse
  • Terry Deary's Greek Tales: The Tortoise and the Dare
  • The Angel Collector
  • The Boy in the Biscuit Tin
  • The Boy on the Bus
  • The Cats in Krasinski Square
  • The Earth and its Moon
  • The Elephant's Child
  • The Elves and the Shoemaker
  • The Falconer's Knot
  • The Hat
  • The Last of the High Kings
  • The Legend of the Worst Boy in the World
  • The Lion Encyclopedia of Christianity
  • The Medici Curse
  • The Opposite
  • The Road of Bones
  • The Strawberry Picker
  • The Underground Reporters
  • To market! To market!
  • Two Friends, One Summer
  • Voices
  • What I Was
  • White Owl, Barn Owl
  • Why Fairy Tales Stick: The Evolution and Relevance of a Genre

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