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BfK No. 120 - January 2000
Cover Story
This issue’s cover is from Edward Ardizzone’s Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain. Brian Alderson discusses this classic picture book, now reissued in a beautiful new edition by Scholastic in ‘Classics in Short’. Thanks to Scholastic Children’s Books for their help in producing this January cover.
Tony Mitton has won the 2014 CLPE Poetry Award for his book Wayland, illustrated by John Lawrence and published by David Fickling Books. Mitton, who has been shortlisted for the award twice before, joins a group of highly regarded previous winners including Jackie Kay, John Agard, George Szirtes and Rachel Rooney.
James Dawson has beaten John Green to be crowned the first ever male Queen of Teen. Dawson was announced as the winner of the award at a ceremony on Friday 11th July 2014 surrounded by fans, invited journalists and five out of nine of the other shortlisted authors: Cathy Cassidy, Beth Reekles, Natasha Farrant, Holly Smale, Cassandra Clare, S.C.
C. J. (Chelsey) Flood and her editor Venetia Gosling have won the 2014 Branford Boase Award given annually to the author and editor of the outstanding debut novel for children, for Infinite Sky published by Simon & Schuster.
Walker Books and The Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) are celebrating 25 years of We're Going On A Bear Hunt by attempting to break a Guinness World Records title for the Largest Reading Lesson, to raise money for Read for RNIB Day: At 10am on Tuesday 15 July 2014 Walker Books will host a giant reading lesson starring Michael Rosen.
Booktrust have announced the winners of the first ever Booktrust Best Book Awards with Amazon Kindle from a party-style awards ceremony in central London, attended by authors and some 300 children who had taken part in the judging. The event is part of Children’s Book Week 2014. 
Kevin Brooks and Jon Klassen have been announced as the winners of the 2014 CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals, the awards that authors and illustrators say that they ‘most want to win’. Brooks was awarded the CILIP Carnegie Medal for The Bunker Diary, a fictional diary of a kidnapped boy held hostage in a bunker.
