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BfK No. 128 - May 2001

Cover Story
This issue’s cover is from Lauren Child’s I Am NOT Sleepy and I WILL NOT Go to Bed. Lauren Child is interviewed by Joanna Carey. Thanks to Orchard Books for their help with this May cover.

BfK No. 128 Articles

Editorial - May 2001

News and comment from the Editor.
2001 Picture Books for the Not So Very Young

Elaine Moss on the latest picture books.
Authorgraph No.128: Lauren Child

Lauren Child interviewed by Joanna Carey.
Windows into Illustration: Bob Graham

Bob Graham on his recent picture book, Max.
Inspiring ‘Reluctant’ Readers

Cynthia Dummett and Anne Marley on books that worked.
Short Stories for Young Readers: the Neglected Genre?

Peter Hollindale on the unique qualities of the short story.
BfK Briefing - May 2001

News * Events * Obituary * Awards * Publications * Letters to the Editor
Useful Organisations No.15: Action for Children’s Arts

Promotes and develops all the creative and performing arts for and with children.
I Wish I’d Written… Junk

Lesley Howarth chooses Melvin Burgess's Junk.
Good Reads: King Arthur’s Community School

Reviews from pupils of King Arthur's Community School, Wincanton, Somerset.
Classics in Short No.27: Adventures of the Little Wooden Horse

Brian Alderson on Ursula Moray Williams' Adventures of the Little Wooden Horse.

Editor's Choice

Witch Child
Celia Rees
(Bloomsbury Publishing PLC)
5

Mary is a witch - or, as she says, 'so some would call me'. Her narrative, told in the form of a diary, begins in 1659 with the torture and hanging for witchcraft of the woman she has always thought of as her grandmother. How, then, is Mary to be...

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New Talent

(Un) arranged Marriage
Bali Rai
(Corgi Childrens)
3

This lively first novel spans five years in Manjit's life, from the ages of 13 to 17. His path, predetermined by his traditional Leicester Punjabi family, is that he will be married at 17 to a girl he has never met before, just as his older...

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All Children's Book Reviews in BfK No. 128

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

Under 5s

  • The Puffin Book of Amazing Animal Poems
    4

  • The Joking Wolf
    Val Biro
    4

  • Don't Step on the Crack!
    Colin McNaughton
    4

  • Sam's First Day
    David Mills
    Sujata Banerjee
    3

  • Tiny Rabbit Goes to the Park
    John Wallace
    3

Ages 5-8

  • My Surprise Book of Seasons; My Surprise Book of Senses; My Surprise Book of Pirates; My Surprise Book of Night and Day
    Valerie Guidoux
    5

  • Rocking Horse Land and Other Classic Tales of Dolls and Toys
    Naomi Lewis
    5

  • Lady Lollipop
    Dick King-Smith
    5

  • Bob and the House Elves
    Emily Rodda
    4

  • Sausage and the Little Visitor; Sausage in Trouble; School for Sausage; Sausage and the Spooks
    Michaela Morgan
    4

  • Tiger and Me
    Kaye Umansky
    4

  • Kiss the Cow!
    Phyllis Root
    4

  • Singing to the Sun
    Vivian French
    3

  • More Jessame Stories
    Julia Jarman
    3

  • Even More Nonsense
    Michael Rosen
    3

Ages 8-10

  • The Story of Ireland
    Richard Brassey
    5

  • Grow Organic Eat Organic: A practical activity book for beginners
    Lone Morton
    5

  • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    J K Rowling
    5

  • What Do We Think About Bullying?
    Jillian Powell
    4

  • Bad Dreams
    Anne Fine
    4

  • Never Play Snap with a Shark
    John Foster
    3

  • The Four Children of Night
    Weem Whitaker
    3

  • The Penguin in the Fridge and other Cool Poems; Welcome to the Snake Hotel: Slithering poems
    Peter Dixon
    3

  • Sucked In
    Paul Jennings
    3

  • Climb Aboard the Poetry Plane
    John Foster
    3

  • Joker; Sam's Dream; Arf and the Greedy Grabber; Jack's Tree; The Planet Machine; Mr Potts, the Potty Teacher
    Anthony Masters
    3

  • The Phantom's Fang-tastic Show
    Wes Magee
    2

Ages 10-14

  • Shacked Up
    Kate Cann
    5

  • True Believer
    Virginia Euwer Wolff
    5

  • Breaking Up
    Kate Cann
    5

  • Brothers
    Ted Van Lieshout
    Lance Salway
    5

  • Witch Child
    Celia Rees
    5

  • Fuels for the Future; Waste Recycling and Re-use; Keeping Water Clean; Keeping the Air Clean
    Steve Parker
    5

  • Britannia on Stage: 25 Plays from British History
    Geraldine McCaughrean
    5

  • Secret Heart
    David Almond
    5

  • The Flip Side
    Andrew Matthews
    4

  • Eight Days of Luke; Archer's Goon
    Diana Wynne Jones
    4

  • Mine's a Winner; Cast Away; System Shock; Respect
    Michael Hardcastle
    4

  • (Un) arranged Marriage
    Bali Rai
    3

  • Oliver Cromwell and his Warts
    Alan MacDonald
    3

  • Old Magic
    Marianne Curley
    3

  • Bluebeard's Castle
    Gene Kemp
    3

  • DK Guide to Weather
    Michael Allaby
    3

  • Vampyr Legion
    Alan Gibbons
    3

  • Stuck in Neutral
    Terry Trueman
    2

Books About Children's Books

  • Schicklgruber
    Robert Colling-Pyper
    Margaret Stavridi
    5

  • Children's Literature
    Peter Hunt
    4

  • Take Up Thy Bed and Walk: Death, Disability and Cure in Classic Fiction for Girls
    Lois Keith
    4

  • Hans Christian Andersen: the life of a storyteller
    Jackie Wullschlager
    Allen Lane
    4

BfK News

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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