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BfK No. 184 - September 2010
BfK 184 September 2010

Cover Story
This issue’s cover illustration is from Nick Sharrat’s One Fluffy Baa-Lamb, Ten Hairy Caterpillars. Nick Sharratt is interviewed by Joanna Carey. Thanks to Alison Green Books for their help with this September cover.

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BfK No. 184 Articles

A Books for Keeps extract from Stories for a Fragile Planet

From Stories for a Fragile Planet
Rick Riordan - our featured author this week

2010 has already proved a phenomenal year for Rick Riordan...
Editorial – September 2010

News and comment from the Editor.
David Almond: a retrospective

Clive Barnes assesses Almond’s contribution to children’s
literature.
Ten of the Best Gothic Novels

Geraldine Brennan chooses her top ten titles.
BfK BASICS: helping your child enjoy books and reading

Liz Attenborough advises how to share books with babies.
Windows into Illustration: Eric Hill

Eric Hill on his now classic title, Where’s Spot?
Authorgraph No.184: Nick Sharratt

Nick Sharratt is interviewed by Joanna Carey.
Pullman’s Progress

Nicholas Tucker discusses Pullman’s
views on religion.
Briefing – September 2010

News * Exhibitions * Awards * Obituary
Hal’s Reading Diary – September 2010

Roger Mills on Hal’s increasing motivation to read.
I Wish I’d Written… Tom’s Midnight Garden

Chris Priestley chooses Philippa Pearce’s Tom’s Midnight Garden.
Good Reads: St Stithians Girls’ Preparatory School, South Africa

Reviews from pupils of St Stithians Girls’ Preparatory School, Randburg, South Africa.
Classics in Short No.83: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Brian Alderson on Mark Twain’s The
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
A Books for Keeps extract from Dancing in the Dark

From Dancing in the Dark
A Books for Keeps extract from Boy Called M.O.U.S.E.

From Boy Called M.O.U.S.E.
Michael Rosen publishes Big Book of Bad Things

Thursday 7 October is National Poetry Day and Books for Keeps talks to Michael Rosen

Books of 2010 chosen by the new School Librarian Of The Year

Books for Keeps asked Duncan Wright and Kevin Sheehan to select their books of 2010
A Books for Keeps extract from Heroes of Olympus: The Lost Hero

A new novel by Rick Riordan.
A Books for Keeps extract from Worse Things Happen At Sea!

From Worse Things Happen At Sea!
Books for Hallowe'en

Books for Keeps’ selection of Hallowe'en titles.
A Books for Keeps extract from Pull Out All The Stops!

From Pull Out All The Stops! by Geraldine McCaughrean

Editor's Choice

The 10pm Question
Kate De Goldi
(Templar)
4

12-year-old Frankie’s mum works from home making cakes for restaurants. Frankie, who suffers from chronic anxiety and imagines every worst case scenario is about to happen, takes comfort in asking her at bedtime about his latest anxieties – hence...

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New Talent

Apple Pie ABC
Alison Murray
(Orchard Books)
4

According to the Opies, the nursery rhyme ‘A was an apple-pie’ was ‘well known in the reign of Charles II’ and by the nineteenth century ‘was a favourite for ABC instruction’. Kate Greenaway’s A Apple Pie, for example, which was...

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All Children's Book Reviews in BfK No. 184

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

Under 5s

  • Look Out Leon
    Jez Alborough
    5

  • The Fly
    Petr Horácek
    5

  • My Sister is an Alien
    Rachel Bright
    4

  • Baby Ruby Bawled
    Malaika Rose Stanley
    4

  • Apple Pie ABC
    Alison Murray
    4

  • The Night Iceberg
    Helen Stephens
    4

  • Bedtime Hullabaloo!
    David Conway
    3

  • Ants in Your Pants!
    Julia Jarman
    3

  • Bumping Buffalo
    Mwenye Hadithi
    3

  • A Walk in the Wild Woods
    Lis Jones
    3

  • The Sunflower Sword
    Mark Sperring
    3

  • The Great Big Book of Families
    Mary Hoffman
    3

Ages 5-8

  • April Underhill, Tooth Fairy
    Bob Graham
    5

  • E is for Ethiopia ¦ S is for South Africa
    Ashenafi Gudeta
    5

  • Gracie the Lighthouse Cat
    Ruth Brown
    4

  • Mary’s Penny
    Tanya Landman
    3

  • Ella Moves House
    Angela Hassall
    3

  • The Day the Rains Fell
    Anne Faundez
    3

  • Thomas the Tank Engine - 65th anniversary edition
    Rev W Awdry
    3

  • My Favourite Animal Families
    Steve Bloom
    3

Ages 8-10

  • My Uncle's Dunkirk
    Mick Manning
    Brita Granström
    5

  • Goal!
    Mina Javaherbin
    3

  • Road Horse
    Caroline Binch
    3

  • Ship's Cat Doris
    Jane Simmons
    3

  • Bitter Chocolate
    Sally Grindley
    3

  • How Ali Ferguson Saved Houdini
    Elen Caldecott
    3

  • Would You Believe… two cyclists invented the aeroplane?! ¦ ... in Mexico, people picnic at Granny's grave?! ¦ ... bed testers get paid to sleep?! ¦ ... Vatican City is a country?!
    Richard Platt
    3

  • Dead Man's Cove
    Lauren St John
    2

  • Dewey: The true story of a world famous library cat
    Vicki Myron
    2

Ages 10-14

  • An Elephant in the Garden
    Michael Morpurgo
    5

  • Wasted
    Nicola Morgan
    5

  • A Web of Air
    Philip Reeve
    5

  • Annexed
    Sharon Dogar
    5

  • My Name is Mina
    David Almond
    5

  • Reckless
    Cornelia Funke
    5

  • The 10pm Question
    Kate De Goldi
    4

  • Dark Goddess
    Sarwat Chadda
    4

  • The Lambton Curse
    Malachy Doyle
    3

  • Theodore Boone
    John Grisham
    3

  • Spirit Hunter
    Katy Moran
    3

  • Mistress of the Storm
    M L Welsh
    3

  • Space Crime Conspiracy
    Gareth P Jones
    3

  • Sisters Red
    Jackson Pearce
    3

  • Reducing the Carbon Footprint ¦ Waste Disposal ¦ Climate Change ¦ Water ¦ Resources ¦ Feeding the World
    Anne Rooney
    3

  • Me, Myself and I: All about sex and puberty
    Louise Spilsbury
    3

  • The Moonstone Legacy
    Diana de Gunzburg
    Tony Wild
    1

Ages 14+

  • Losing It
    5

  • Burning Mountain
    L J Adlington
    5

  • The Last Summer of the Death Warriors
    Francisco X Stork
    5

  • I'm Not Scared
    Niccolo Ammaniti
    4

  • Girl, 16: Five-Star Fiasco
    Sue Limb
    4

  • Pretty Monsters
    Kelly Link
    4

  • Beautiful Malice
    Rebecca James
    3

  • White Cat
    Holly Black
    3

  • The Glass Demon
    Helen Grant
    3

  • Lies
    Michael Grant
    3

  • Monsters of Men
    Patrick Ness
    3

Books About Children's Books

  • Children’s Literature and Social Change. Some Case Studies from Barbara Hofland to Philip Pullman
    Dennis Butts
    4

  • School Blues
    Daniel Pennac
    4

  • Spoilt Rotten: the Toxic Cult of Sentimentality
    Theodore Dalrymple
    0

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Michael Rosen, children’s novelist, poet and former Children’s Laureate, has announced the shortlist for the 2020 Laugh Out Loud Awards (The Lollies), the awards that celebrate the funniest children’s books.

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HOOD, RUNDELL AND REYNOLDS UKLA BOOK AWARD WINNERS 2019

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CATHERINE JOHNSON WINS LITTLE REBELS CHILDREN’S BOOK AWARD

The Alliance of Radical Booksellers (ARB) is delighted to announce that the winner of this year’s Little Rebels Children’s Book Award for Radical Fiction is Catherine Johnson for her book, Freedom (Scholastic 2018).

Catherine Johnsonn photo Andy Donohoe

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Steven Camden photo by Ellie Kurttz

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SLA School Librarian of the Year 2019 Announced

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Ros Harding of The King’s School Chester has been awarded the honour of the School Librarian of the Year 2019. 2019 YA Book Prize winner Sara Barnard presented Ros Harding with her award at a special ceremony at the Millennium Gloucester Hotel, Kensington, London Kensington on 27 June.

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MUHAMMAD KHAN WINS 20TH BRANFORD BOASE AWARD

The winner of the 2019 Branford Boase Award for outstanding debut novel for children is Muhammad Khan for his YA novel I Am Thunder. Set up in memory of author Henrietta Branford and her editor Wendy Boase who both died in 1999, the award also recognizes his editor Lucy Pearse of Macmillan Children’s Books.

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The Children's Book Award 2019

Earlier this month, Arree Chung was named overall winner of The Children’s Book Award 2019. His book Mixed, which he wrote and illustrated, also won the Books for Younger Children category before going on to win the overall prize.

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WINNERS OF THE 2019 CILIP CARNEGIE AND KATE GREENAWAY MEDALS

The winners of the CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals have been announced at a ceremony at The British Library, hosted by broadcaster and writer Konnie Huq.

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