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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

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