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BfK 250 September 2021
This issue’s cover illustration is from Tilda Tries Again, written and illustrated by Tom Percival. Thanks to Bloomsbury Children’s Books for their help with our 250th cover.
Philip Womack’s new fantasy novel opens in a world that will seem strange and alien to many of his readers: a public school, the morning after the night of the Summer Ball, ‘White Quad Bell’ ringing out into the mid-morning air, pupils staggering back to their rooms after the revelries, black ties undone. The other-worldly air thickens as the story unfolds, and gets considerably darker. Tom is gloomily anticipating s …
Philip Womack’s new fantasy novel opens in a world that will seem strange and alien to many of his readers: a public school, the morning after the night of the Summer Ball, ‘White Quad Bell’ ringing out into the mid-morning air, pupils staggering back to their rooms after the revelries, black ties undone. The other-worldly air thickens as the story unfolds, and gets considerably darker. Tom is gloomily anticipating spending the long weeks of the summer holidays at school. His parents died in a boating accident and there’s no family, just a distant guardian overseas. So when a strange boy arrives to deliver an even stranger invitation to visit the uncle Tom never knew he had, Tom is determined to go, against his headmaster’s orders and despite a rather frightening run-in with another peculiar visitor. Mundham Farm, his newly dis …
Jennifer Lau
There’s a proper buzz around Fireborn, the hot new children’s fantasy series of 2021. Rights sold to twenty different territories and to HarperCollins Children’s Books for a record-breaking sum. Reading book one, it’s easy to understand the excitement. Set in a well-imagined prehistoric world, it has a particularly charismatic heroine in Twelve. Twelve is a Huntling, in training to become a Hunter …
View Full InterviewThere’s a proper buzz around Fireborn, the hot new children’s fantasy series of 2021. Rights sold to twenty different territories and to HarperCollins Children’s Books for a record-breaking sum. Reading book one, it …
Mat Tobin, one of the judges of this year’s Klaus Flugge Prize, interviews 2021 winner Flavia Z. Drago. Flavia Zorrilla Drago’s prize-winning debut is a sweet marriage betwe …
The Power of Pictures Ed Vere paints a picture of how much visual literacy can achieve in our children’s education. As someone who draws, I’ve always taken it for granted that pictures say a lot. They always spoke t …
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