Books for Keeps 51 - the children's book magazine online

Discovering poetry for the first time, especially when it opens the way between teacher and class, is exciting. Val Downes, a primary school teacher, describes her experience of...

Michael Rosen was interviewed by Morag Styles.

Pat Thomson introduces a new seven-part series with the theme of House and Home.

It's not often that a relative newcomer writes a string of unputdownables. Val Bierman caught up with this exciting Australian author on a flying visit to the UK.

When Loving Encounters: a book for teenagers about sex by Rosemary Stones arrived a few weeks ago, it demanded our attention. Here was a new book about sex with a clear and uncompromising voice.

We asked two Hertfordshire librarians, Helen Boothroyd and Anthony Tilke, to talk to colleagues and local schools for their reactions and to see how the book stands up against the current DES circular (Sex Education at School) and the recent controversial legislation, in particular, Section 28.

The 1987 winners.

A round-up of forthcoming tie-ins.