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BfK No. 160 - September 2006

Cover Story
This issue’s cover illustration by Getty Images is from Tim Bowler’s Frozen Fire. Tim Bowler is interviewed by Geoff Fox. Thanks to Oxford University Press for their help with this September cover.

BfK No. 160 Articles

Editorial - September 2006

News and comment from the Editor.

Diversity Matters: growing markets in children’s publishing - How Committed Are Publishers to Publishing Black Writers?

Malorie Blackman describes her experiences of being published.

Early Years Reading: Anna Wilson’s ‘Nina Fairy Ballerina’ series

Alison Kelly explores Anna Wilson's 'Nina Fairy Ballerina' series.

Diversity Matters: growing markets in children’s publishing - Conference Report

Shereen Pandit reports on her impressions.

Waiting for a Jamie Oliver: Beyond bog-standard literacy

Henrietta Dombey assesses the arguments.

Authorgraph No.160: Tim Bowler

Tim Bowler interviewed by Geoff Fox.

BfK Briefing - September 2006

News * Letters to the Editor * Obituary

Useful Organisations No.46: Bayard magazines for children

StoryBox, AdventureBox and StoryBox monthly magazines for children.

Hal’s Reading Diary – September 2006

Roger Mills on Hal’s science library.

I Wish I’d Written… Fly By Night

Meg Rosoff chooses Frances Hardinge's Fly By Night.

Good Reads: King Edward VI Aston School

Reviews from King Edward VI Aston School, Birmingham.

Classics in Short No.59: The Jungle Books

Brian Alderson on Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Books.

Editor's Choice

The Cat Who Wanted to Go Home

Jill Tomlinson

(Egmont Books Ltd)

Best known for The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark , Jill Tomlinson excelled at warmly written, humorous young fiction titles featuring young animals faced with a challenge. Now her text for The Cat Who Wanted to Go Home...

Beast

Ally Kennen

(Marion Lloyd Books)

17-year-old Stephen is due to leave his foster family of four years, the Reynolds, and all his social worker can offer him as a place to live is St Mark’s, the rough hostel for homeless people where, ironically, Stephen’s biological father once...

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

Under 5s

The Runaway Dinner

Allan Ahlberg

5
Clip-Clop

Nicola Smee

5
006 and a Bit

Kes Gray

5
The Cat Who Wanted to Go Home

Jill Tomlinson

5
Little Fish

Guido Van Genechten

4
Happy Birthday, Jamela!

Niki Daly

4
Un Deux Trois: First French Rhymes

3
Animal Moves; Animal Noises

Dawn Apperley

3
All My Friends

Gill Lobel

3
Mrs Pepperpot Learns to Swim; Mrs Pepperpot Minds The Baby

Alf Prøysen

2

Ages 5-8

Fly, Pigeon, Fly!

John Henderson
Julia Donaldson

5
Running Shoes

Frederick Lipp

4
My First Book of Garden Birds

Mike Unwin

4
The Great Tug of War

Beverley Naidoo

4
Four Red Apples

David McKee

4
Death in a Nut

Eric Maddern

3

Ages 8-10

War With Troy: Teacher's Guide; War With Troy: The Story of Achilles

Grant Bage
Jennie Dunn
Bob Lister

5
Terribly True Crime Stories; Terribly True Spy Stories

Terry Deary

4
The Boy With The Lightning Feet

Sally Gardner

4
A Horse Called El Dorado

Kevin Kiely

3
The Awful Tale of Agatha Bilke

Sian Pattenden

2
Acid Rain

Lucy Poddington

1

Ages 10-14

Tanglewreck

Jeanette Winterson

5
Smokescreen

Bernard Ashley

5
Nothing Scares Me

Gene Kemp

5
Into the Woods

Lyn Gardner

5
Does My Head Look Big In This?

Randa Abdel-Fattah

5
Coster Girls & Mudlarks: Street voices from Victorian London

5
The Tide Knot

Helen Dunmore

4
Obesity

Michaela Miller

4
My Swordhand Is Singing

Marcus Sedgwick

4
Marco's Pendulum

Thom Madley

4
Half Moon Investigations

Eoin Colfer

4
Can You Feel The Force?

Richard Hammond

4
Blade of Fire

Stuart Hill

4
'...startled by his furry shorts!' Fab New Confessions of Georgia Nicolson

Louise Rennison

4
The Willow Man

Sue Purkiss

3
The Telling Pool

David Clement-Davies

3
Rise of The Blood Moon

Alan Gibbons

3
How the Hangman Lost His Heart

K M Grant

3
Fourth Horseman, The

Kate Thompson

3
The Black Tattoo

Sam Enthoven

3
The Sirens of Surrentum

Caroline Lawrence

1

Ages 14+

Small-Minded Giants

Oisín McGann

5
Centre of my World

Andreas Steinhöfel

5
A Brief Chapter in my Impossible Life

Dana Reinhardt

4
Beast

Ally Kennen

4
Shining On

3
Malcolm X

Michael Benson

3
Damage

Sue Mayfield

3
Angel Blood

John Singleton

3
Kidulthood

Jim Eldridge

2

Books About Children's Books

Making of Me,The. A writer's childhood

Robert Westall

4
Wand in the Word, The: Conversations with Writers of Fantasy

3

BfK News

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 21^st century.

Cath Senker wins EWA 2018

Canvases, Codes, Clean Water & Empathy

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

They are:

The Colour of the Sun by David Almond published by Hodder Children’s Books

Bone Talk by Candy Gourlay published by David Fickling Books

Orphan Monster Sky by Matt Killeen published by Usborne

Award-winning YA author Patrice Lawrence and Books for Keeps contributor Darren Chetty have been named as judges of the 2019 Little Rebels Award. The Little Rebels Award celebrates children’s books for readers age 0-12 which promote social equality and social justice.

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

Nominations have been published for the CILIP Carnegie Medal and the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal, the country's oldest children’s book awards.

Lauren Child WBD cover Snap by Patrice Lawrence

Kate Milner has won the 2018 Klaus Flugge Prize for the most exciting and promising newcomer to children’s picture book illustration. She won for her book My Name is Not Refugee (Barrington Stoke), which follows a young boy as he and his mother set out from their home to find somewhere safe to live.

Books for Keeps 160 - the children's book magazine online

Digital version – browse, print or download

BfK Newsletter

BfK No. 160 Articles

Editor's Choice

The Cat Who Wanted to Go Home

New Talent

Beast

All Children's Book Reviews in BfK No. 160

Under 5s

The Runaway Dinner

Clip-Clop

006 and a Bit

The Cat Who Wanted to Go Home

Little Fish

Happy Birthday, Jamela!

Un Deux Trois: First French Rhymes

Animal Moves; Animal Noises

All My Friends

Mrs Pepperpot Learns to Swim; Mrs Pepperpot Minds The Baby

Ages 5-8

Fly, Pigeon, Fly!

Running Shoes

My First Book of Garden Birds

The Great Tug of War

Four Red Apples

Death in a Nut

Ages 8-10

War With Troy: Teacher's Guide; War With Troy: The Story of Achilles

Terribly True Crime Stories; Terribly True Spy Stories

The Boy With The Lightning Feet

A Horse Called El Dorado

The Awful Tale of Agatha Bilke

Acid Rain

Ages 10-14

Tanglewreck

Smokescreen

Nothing Scares Me

Into the Woods

Does My Head Look Big In This?

Coster Girls & Mudlarks: Street voices from Victorian London

The Tide Knot

Obesity

My Swordhand Is Singing

Marco's Pendulum

Half Moon Investigations

Can You Feel The Force?

Blade of Fire

'...startled by his furry shorts!' Fab New Confessions of Georgia Nicolson

The Willow Man

The Telling Pool

Rise of The Blood Moon

How the Hangman Lost His Heart

Fourth Horseman, The

The Black Tattoo

The Sirens of Surrentum

Ages 14+

Small-Minded Giants

Centre of my World

A Brief Chapter in my Impossible Life

Beast

Shining On

Malcolm X

Damage

Angel Blood

Kidulthood

Books About Children's Books

Making of Me,The. A writer's childhood

Wand in the Word, The: Conversations with Writers of Fantasy

BfK News