Books for Keeps 45 - the children's book magazine online

Can books help prevent child abuse? Judith Milner and Eric Blyth consider the issues.

`Messages about getting away, telling and saying no are too important to put into a negative context.' Michele Elliott writes about creating

Liz Waterland looks at recent publishing for beginning readers and Pat Triggs suggests some short cuts to finding the right books.

'Book Cover UK'

The Children's Book Week's Regional Book Event Competition was launched in January this year. The winners have now been declared and each sent their cheque for £3,000.

Bob Cattell, Children's Book Week Organiser at Book Trust, talks about how the campaign is progressing.

Helen Pain reports on this year's award winning books.

Dick King-Smith interviewed by Chris Powling.

Last year Alison Prince and 21 children aged seven to eleven wrote a book together. The project, sponsored by Lincolnshire and Humberside Arts and made possible by a contract from publisher Marilyn Malin, lasted two terms. It had an enormous impact on the tiny two-classroom school on the edge of the fen.

Chris Gudgin, a teaching head whose class Alison Prince worked with, describes what happened when 21 juniors collaborated on writing a novel.

Pat Triggs investigates.