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BfK No. 133 - March 2002

Cover Story
This issue's cover is from Celia Ree's Sorceress. Celia Rees is interviewed by Stephanie Nettell. Thanks to Bloomsbury Children's Books for their help with this March cover.

BfK No. 133 Articles

Editorial - March 2002

News and comment from the Editor.
Under Taliban Rule

Shereen Pandit on Deborah Ellis's The Breadwinner.
The Depiction of Arabs in Children's Literature

Ann Lazim on the need for positive images.
Standing Up to Protest

Gaye Hiçyilmaz on dissent as a theme in her books.
Peter on the Couch

Rob Wood on Peter Pan as a 'puer aeternus' archetype.
Hal's Reading Diary - March 2002

Roger Mills on his one-year-old's response to books.
Authorgraph No.133: Celia Rees

Celia Rees interviewed by Stephanie Nettell.
Everyone's Home Library

Children's Laureate, Anne Fine, on how every child can own books.
BfK Briefing - March 2002

News * Events * Awards * Publications * Letters to the Editor
Useful Organisations No.20: Realbook News

Bi-annual publication to help adults select picture books for children learning English as a second language.
I Wish I'd Written... Picture This

Jacqueline Wilson chooses Alison Jay's Picture This.
Good Reads: Duke Street Primary School

Reviews from pupils of Duke Street Primary School, Chorley, Lancashire.
Classics in Short No.32: Milly-Molly-Mandy

Brian Alderson on Joyce Lankester Brisley's Milly-Molly-Mandy.

Editor's Choice

Mirrors
(HarperCollinsChildren'sBooks)
4

As Cooling points out in her introduction to this newly commissioned collection of short stories, 'mirrors and reflections have played their part in stories from the ancient tales...to today'. It kicks off, appropriately, with Elizabeth Laird's...

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New Talent

Mortal Engines
Philip Reeve
(Scholastic)
5

It's a town eat town world and Tom, an apprentice historian, has been brought up to believe that municipal Darwinsim is a noble and beautiful system. He joins the celebrations as the great traction city of London speeds across the Out-Country...

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All Children's Book Reviews in BfK No. 133

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

Under 5s

  • Tiny
    Paul Rogers
    4

  • I Want to be a Cowgirl
    Jeanne Willis
    4

  • Who's Poorly Too?
    Kes Gray
    4

  • The Rainbow Book of Nursery Rhymes
    Sam Childs
    4

  • Shaggy Dog and the Terrible Itch
    David Bedford
    3

  • Bathtime PiggyWiggy
    Christyan Fox
    Diane Fox
    3

  • Noisy Dog
    Selina Young
    3

  • The Little Penguin
    A J Wood
    3

  • Saving Sinbad!
    Michael Foreman
    3

  • Something Wonderful
    Jenny Nimmo
    3

  • Small
    Clara Vulliamy
    3

Ages 5-8

  • Come Back to Me My Boomerang; The Box Room; Zoo of Dreams; Fluff and Other Stuff
    John Agard
    5

  • Crocodile: Disappearing Dragon
    Jonathan London
    4

  • Remarkable Animals
    Tony Meeuwissen
    4

  • George Shrinks
    William Joyce
    4

  • Silver Shoes
    Caroline Binch
    4

  • Sink or Swim
    Ghillian Potts
    3

  • Pip
    Tony Mitton
    3

  • Cunning Cat Tales; Wicked Wolf Tales
    3

  • How the Camel got his Hump
    Rudyard Kipling
    3

  • Fire and Stone, Wind and Tide
    2

Ages 8-10

  • World War I
    Simon Adams
    5

  • Ludwig van Beethoven; Wolfgang Mozart
    Yann Walcker
    5

  • The Lion Bible: Everlasting Stories; The Kingfisher Children's Bible
    5

  • Skellig
    David Almond
    5

  • The Big Book of Nonsense
    Colin West
    5

  • A Poem For Everyone: A Treasury of Poems About People
    5

  • Guide to Savage Earth
    Trevor Day
    4

  • Voice of Freedom: A story about Frederick Douglass
    Maryann N Weidt
    4

  • A Century of Children's Poems
    4

  • The Moon Has Got His Pants On and Other Poems
    Steve Turner
    4

  • Toro! Toro!
    Michael Morpurgo
    3

  • Rob the Roman Gets Eaten by a Lion, Nearly; Trev the Tudor Gets the Chop
    Scoular Anderson
    3

  • My Mum's Going to Explode!
    Jeremy Strong
    3

  • Sink or Swim
    Ghillian Potts
    3

  • A Journey Through Time
    Selina Wood
    3

  • The Boy Who Could Fly
    Sally Gardner
    3

  • Ivor the Invisible
    Raymond Briggs
    3

  • Football
    Robert Crowther
    2

  • The Kingfisher Facts and Records Book of Space
    Clive Gifford
    1

Ages 10-14

  • The Ropemaker
    Peter Dickinson
    5

  • Mortal Engines
    Philip Reeve
    5

  • Stop the Train
    Geraldine McCaughrean
    5

  • The Ruby in the Smoke
    Philip Pullman
    5

  • Hitler's Daughter
    Jackie French
    5

  • Out of Order: between-age poems
    5

  • Saffy's Angel
    Hilary McKay
    5

  • Up on Cloud Nine
    Anne Fine
    5

  • Calling a Dead Man
    Gillian Cross
    4

  • For Maritsa, with love
    Enid Richemont
    4

  • Wrecked
    Robert Swindells
    4

  • When a Girl is Born
    Pamela Grant
    4

  • Poems from Many Cultures: Poetry Collection 4
    4

  • Mirrors
    4

  • Refugee Boy
    Benjamin Zephaniah
    3

  • Mates, Dates and Portobello Princesses
    Cathy Hopkins
    3

  • If Only; Seeing Red; Go For It!
    Sue Vyner
    3

  • Deadly!
    Morris Gleitzman
    Paul Jennings
    3

  • Julie and Me... and Michael Owen Makes Three
    Alan Gibbons
    3

  • Grandma You're Dead!
    Sharon O Tai
    3

  • Firsts: The Livewire Book of British Women Achievers
    Kate Murphy
    3

  • The Flight of the Emu
    Rachel Anderson
    3

  • Me and My Shadow
    Joan Lingard
    3

  • Falling for Joshua
    Brian Keaney
    2

  • The Young Oxford Encyclopedia of Science
    2

  • Out of the Blue
    Sue Welford
    2

  • The Fire Within
    Chris D'Lacey
    2

Books About Children's Books

  • Reading Talk
    Aidan Chambers
    4

  • Chewing the Cud
    Dick King-Smith
    3

BfK News

THE LITTLE REBELS AWARD SHORTLIST 2019

Little Rebels prize logoThe shortlist for the 2019 Little Rebels Award has been announced. Seven books have made the list with war and conflict recurring themes.

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SHORTLISTS FOR 2019 CILIP CARNEGIE AND KATE GREENAWAY MEDALS

The shortlists for the CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals have been announced. Selected by volunteer Youth Librarians from longlists of 20 books per medal, there are eight on each shortlist.

Alongside previously shortlisted authors and illustrators, there are newcomers on each shortlist, and as the poetry boom for young readers continues, three verse novels make the Carnegie shortlist by US authors Elizabeth Acevedo, Kwame Alexander and Jason Reynolds.

The 2019 shortlists are as follows:

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BLUE PETER BOOK AWARD WINNERS 2019

The Boy at the Back of the Class by Onjali Q Raúf and The Colours of History by Clive Gifford, illustrated by Marc-Etienne Peintre, have been revealed as the 2019 Blue Peter Book Award winners.

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LONGLISTS FOR 2019 CILIP CARNEGIE AND KATE GREENAWAY MEDALS ANNOUNCED

The longlists for the CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals have been announced. Members of YLG have selected 20 books for each list from no less than 254 nominations.

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WINNERS OF THE LAUGH OUT LOUD BOOK AWARDS 2019

Funny Women win the Lollies!

Lollies winners 2019

Elys Dolan, Emer Stamp and Tom Gates creator Liz Pichon have been named the winners of the 2019 Laugh Out Loud Awards, or Lollies.

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HILARY MCKAY WINS COSTA CHILDREN’S BOOK AWARD WITH ‘PERFECT’ NOVEL

Hilary McKay has won the Costa Children’s Book Award for the second time for The Skylarks’ War, a story following the loves and losses of a family growing up against the backdrop of World War One. The judges described The Skylarks’ War as ‘as perfect a novel as you could ever want to read’. She receives £5,000 and her book is now eligible for the ultimate prize - the 2018 Costa Book of the Year.

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FAR FROM HOME WINS THE 2018 EDUCATIONAL WRITERS’ AWARD

The winner of the 2018 Educational Writers’ Award, the UK’s sole award for creative educational writing, is Far From Home: Refugees and Migrants Fleeing War, Persecution and Poverty by Cath Senker, a topical and richly illustrated book which sensitively examines the root causes of mass migrations of people in the 21st century.

Cath Senker wins EWA 2018

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SHORTLIST ANNOUNCED FOR THE 2018 EDUCATIONAL WRITERS’ AWARD

Canvases, Codes, Clean Water & Empathy

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COSTA CHILDREN’S BOOK AWARD 2018: SHORTLIST ANNOUNCED

Costa have announced the shortlist for the 2018 Costa Children’s Book Award. In a record year for submissions, four novels have made it onto a strong shortlist.

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SHORTLISTS ANNOUNCED FOR BLUE PETER BOOK AWARDS

The shortlists have been announced for the 2019 Blue Peter Book Awards. They are:

Best book with facts

The Element in the Room by Mike Barfield and illustrated by Lauren Humphry, Laurence King Publishing

The Colours of History by Clive Gifford and Marc-Etienne Peintre, QED Publishing

Professor Astro Cat's Human Body Odyssey by Dominic Walliman and Ben Newman, Flying Eye Books

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