Books for Keeps 192 - the children's book magazine online

Of course we won’t get caught,’ I insisted, hoping my voice wouldn’t give away the secret hope that we would.

Budding young writers are now invited to enter this year’s Henrietta Branford Writing Competition.

The full programme for the 33rd IBBY International Congress has been announced and is now available to read at www.ibbycongress2012.org/programme-outline.php The Congress will take place in London this summer, 23 – 26 August.

Congratulations to the following Books for Keeps readers who are winners in our recent Behind the Bookshelf competition.

Bridget March of King’s School in Bruton, Somerset

Jayne Gould of Broke Hall Community Primary School, in Ipswich, Suffolk

Laura Taylor of City of London Academy, Southwark, London

They have each won a year’s subscription to Behind the Bookshelf with full access to the video library and the BtB lesson creator.

‘Although interest in the art of the picture book seems to have grown greatly in recent years, study of the field has remained polarised in its nature and perceptions,’ claim the authors of an important new book, Children’s Picturebooks: The art of visual storytelling.

Books for Keeps invited co-writers Martin Salisbury and Morag Styles to explain their aim to bring together ideas from the world of literature and education with ideas from the field of art and design.