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BfK No. 113 - November 1998

Cover Story
This issue’s cover is from the picture book adaptation of C S Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe illustrated by Christian Birmingham. Thanks to Collins Children’s Books for their help in producing this November cover.

BfK No. 113 Articles

Editorial – November 1998

News and comment from the Editor.
But Are They ‘Real’ Books?

Brian Alderson looks at novelty publishing.
Illustrating Narnia

BfK looks at the work of Pauline Baynes and Christian Birmingham
Illustrated Children’s Books in France

French picture books investigated by Quentin Blake.
Authorgraph No.113: Morris Gleitzman

Morris Gleitzman interviewed by Julia Eccleshare.
Using Gleitzman in the classroom

George Hunt on dealing with controversial issues.
BfK Briefing – November 1998

News * Awards * Best Seller Chart * Publications * Obituary * Letters to the Editor
Useful Organisations No.3: Society for Storytelling

Information and network on all aspects of storytelling.
I Wish I’d Written… Manifold Manor

Adèle Geras chooses Philip Gross's Manifold Manor.
Good Reads: The Warriner School and Altrincham Preparatory School

Reviews from pupils of The Warriner School, Bloxham, Oxfordshire and Altringham Preparatory School, Cheshire.
Classics in Short No.12: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Helene Levene on C S Lewis's The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

Editor's Choice

Joan of Arc
Josephine Poole
(Hutchinson)
5

The representation of Joan of Arc has been variously interpreted over the centuries in the form of artworks, plays, films and books, including books for children. This picture book version includes a chronology of the key events in Joan's life...

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New Talent

Against the Day
Michael Cronin
(Oxford University Press)
4

What would have happened if the Nazis had succeeded in invading Britain? While this is not a new idea (It Happened Here; Fatherland etc) it is an endlessly fascinating one and Cronin's novel of occupation is written with a strong feel for...

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All Children's Book Reviews in BfK No. 113

  • Under 5s
  • Ages 5-8
  • Ages 8-10
  • Ages 10-14

Under 5s

  • A Twist in the Tale
    Mary Hoffman
    5

  • Shrinking Mouse
    Pat Hutchins
    5

  • Happy Birth Day!
    Robie H Harris
    5

  • The Tiger Who Came to Tea
    Judith Kerr
    5

  • Skip Across the Ocean: Nursery Rhymes from round the World
    4

  • The Wheels on the Bus; Incey Wincey Spider
    Penny Dann
    4

  • Freddie goes swimming; Freddie gets dressed; Freddie visits the doctor; Freddie goes to playgroup
    Nicola Smee
    4

  • Fly with the Birds
    Richard Edwards
    3

  • Ten Bright Eyes
    Judy Hindley
    3

  • The Brand New Creature
    Jemma Beeke
    3

  • My Toys; My Clothes; Colours; Going Out
    Sian Tucker
    3

  • Bedtime Rhymes; Counting Rhymes
    Carol Thompson
    2

  • Mr Bear Says Hello, Baby Bear
    Debi Gliori
    2

Ages 5-8

  • Wild and Free; Out There Somewhere, it's time to ...
    Mick Manning
    Brita Granström
    5

  • Tales of Wisdom and Wonder
    Hugh Lupton
    5

  • Only a Show
    Anne Fine
    5

  • Make Hay While the Sun Shines: A Book of Proverbs; Over the Moon: A Book of Sayings
    Shirley Hughes
    5

  • Windhover
    Alan Brown
    Christian Birmingham
    5

  • The Time of the Lion
    Caroline Pitcher
    5

  • Ms MacDonald Has a Class
    Jan Ormerod
    5

  • A Seed in Need: A first look at the plant cycle; The Drop Goes Plop: A first look at the water cycle
    4

  • The Unsinkable Titanic
    Andrew Donkin
    4

  • Tanya, The Moo-vie; Cosmic Whizz Kid; Max and the Petnappers
    Keith Brumpton
    4

  • Mulberry home alone
    Sally Grindley
    4

  • Nonsense!
    4

  • Elephant; Whale
    Judy Allen
    4

  • Jaguar
    Helen Cowcher
    4

  • Just Dog
    Hiawyn Oram
    4

  • Little Bunny Bobkin
    James Riordan
    4

  • The Teeny Tiny Woman
    Arthur Robins
    4

  • The Giant Book of Snakes and Slithery Creatures; The Giant Book of Bugs and Creepy Crawlies
    Jim Pipe
    3

  • Open Wide Wilbur; Long Live Roberto
    Rose Impey
    3

  • The Storm Seal
    Judy Waite
    3

  • Siôn and the Bargain Bee
    Jenny Sullivan
    Jac Jones
    3

  • Ruby the Rudest Girl; Harold the Hairiest Man; Boris the Brainiest Baby; Polly the Most Poetic Person
    Laurence Anholt
    2

Ages 8-10

  • Skeleton: Our body's framework; Making Life: How we reproduce and grow
    Jinny Johnson
    5

  • Out of This World; Seeing Stars
    Carole Stott
    5

  • Joan of Arc
    Josephine Poole
    5

  • Justin and the Demon Drop-kick
    Bernard Ashley
    5

  • Mr William Shakespeare's Plays
    Marcia Williams
    5

  • Meet Posy Bates; Posy Bates, Again!; Posy Bates and the Bag Lady
    Helen Cresswell
    4

  • Cities of Splendour; Beneath the Earth
    Finn Bevan
    4

  • Forbidden Memories
    Jamila Gavin
    4

  • Robi Dobi
    Madhur Jaffrey
    4

  • The Sewer Sleuth; Convict!
    Julia Jarman
    4

  • Saints; Kings and Queens
    Philip Sauvain
    3

  • The Story of Money
    John Orna-Ornstein
    3

  • Nelson Mandela
    Richard Killeen
    3

  • A Flavour of India; A Flavour of France
    Mike Hirst
    3

  • Mysteries of Lost Civilisations; Mysteries of Prehistoric Life
    Anne Millard
    3

Ages 10-14

  • Red, White and Blue; Hideous Kinky
    Robert Leeson
    5

  • Israel and the Arab Nations in Conflict; Chernobyl and other Nuclear Accidents
    Nathaniel Harris
    5

  • Tom's Midnight Garden; A Little Lower than the Angels; Brother in the Land
    Philippa Pearce
    5

  • Homelessness; Divorce
    Kaye Stearman
    4

  • Fighting Back
    Wendy Orr
    4

  • Dream On!
    Steve Barlow
    Steve Skidmore
    4

  • ZinderZunder
    Philip Ridley
    4

  • Against the Day
    Michael Cronin
    4

  • Sorrelle
    Millie Murray
    3

  • That Summer
    Sarah Dessen
    3

  • More to Getting a Life
    Samantha Rugen
    3

  • Raiding and Trading; Plotting and Chopping
    Scoular Anderson
    3

  • Beyond the Deepwoods - The Edge Chronicles
    Paul Stewart
    3

  • Vicious Circle
    Helena Pielichaty
    3

  • The Broken Bridge
    Philip Pullman
    2

  • The Private Life of Georgia Brown
    Brian Keaney
    2

  • The Gingerbread House; Billy the Squid; Screw Loose; Kick Back; Virtual Friend; Wartman
    Adèle Geras
    2

  • Lie Detectives
    Malorie Blackman
    2

  • Drummer Boy
    Garry Kilworth
    2

  • Erosion and Weathering
    Alexander Zevenhuizen
    1

  • Jake's Treasure
    Robin Hanbury-Tenison
    1

BfK News

DICKENS AND CHILDHOOD CONFERENCE

Dickens and Childhood Conference and Symposium Monday 18 June

It is not too late to book places on this special one-day conference on Dickens and Childhood, which will include walks, lectures, readings, and parallel sessions on topics that will appeal to students, teachers, Dickens experts, and the ‘interested reader’.

Marcia Williams Dickens

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Siobhan Dowd Trust launches competition to help encourage a love of reading

The Siobhan Dowd Trust launches competition to help encourage a love of reading

The Siobhan Dowd Trust is proud to announce that Michael Rosen, Poet and ex-Childrens’ Laureate will be on the judging panel of a schools campaign, which is asking teachers and librarians for their ideas about how they encourage a love of books in their schools. The Trust will use the entries to build up a database of ideas which can be shared and swapped… and the ten best or most innovative ideas will receive £1000 worth of books.

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Maurice Sendak June 1928 – May 2012

Maurice Sendak, who has died at the age of 83 was one of the most important illustrators of the twentieth century. Joanna Carey assesses his career for Books for Keeps

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2012 Branford Boase Shortlist

Branford Boase Award logoSeven authors are on the shortlist for the 2012 Branford Boase Award, announced today, Monday 30 April.

The Branford Boase Award is given annually to the author of an outstanding debut novel for children. Uniquely, it also honours the editor of the winning title and highlights the importance of the editor in nurturing new talent.

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Riddell and Stewart Guest Speakers at IBBY UK AGM 2 May

Chris Riddell and Paul Stewart will be guest speakers at the IBBY UK AGM on Wednesday 2 May at Random House 20 Vauxhall Bridge Road, London SW1V 2SA, London. The meeting is free and non-members are welcome. Refreshments will be available from 6.30pm with Chris and Paul speaking at 7pm. Book sales and a signing will take place after the meeting. To book a place email bicarrington@nasuwt.net

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2012 CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medal Shortlists

2012 CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medal Shortlists

The shortlists have been announced for the 2012 CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals, the oldest and most prestigious of all the UK’s children’s book awards.

There are eight books on each shortlist, two more than has been usual: a sign perhaps of the difficulty the judges had in making their final choice.

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GUUS KUIJER TO RECEIVE THE ASTRID LINDGREN MEMORIAL AWARD 2012

The 2012 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award is to be awarded to the Dutch author Guus Kuijer.

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FIRST BRITISH EXHIBITION OF CHINESE PICTURE BOOK ILLUSTRATION

In April, London hosts the first exhibitions in Britain of Chinese children’s and picture book illustration. The exhibitions feature eighty individual illustrations by China’s most celebrated children’s illustrators, and is organised by the Zhejiang Publishing Group, the Publishers’ Association of China, Propeller TV, and the Chinese Board on Books for Young People (CBBY); with the cooperation of the UK section of the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY UK).

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NEW AWARD SHORTLISTS ANNOUNCED

As we wait for the announcement of the shortlists for this year’s CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals, two other interesting and unusual award shortlists have just been revealed.

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Transfer for Once Upon A Wartime exhibition

The Once Upon A Wartime exhibition is now at IWM North Manchester, until 2 September 2012

Based on five war-based children’s novels, the exhibition explores the history of real life conflicts from 1914 to the present day through the eyes of fictional children.

Read Kate Agnew’s Books for Keeps review of the exhibition here.

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