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BfK 249 July 2021
This issue’s cover illustration is from The Summer We Turned Green by William Sutcliffe, cover illustration and hand lettering by Ben Tallon. Thanks to Bloomsbury for their help with this Ju …
Fans of Holly Goldberg Sloan’s heart-warming, life-affirming novels will find many of her favourite themes in her new book. Here are families remade and reunited, and outsiders finding new friends. Sila Tekin lives with her dad in Oregon, both of them longing for the day when her mum can return from Turkey. Mum has had to go back to her old home to sort out problems with her immigration status. A trip that was meant …
Fans of Holly Goldberg Sloan’s heart-warming, life-affirming novels will find many of her favourite themes in her new book. Here are families remade and reunited, and outsiders finding new friends. Sila Tekin lives with her dad in Oregon, both of them longing for the day when her mum can return from Turkey. Mum has had to go back to her old home to sort out problems with her immigration status. A trip that was meant to take eight days has turned into one of 200+ and there’s no end in sight. Sila’s school knows nothing of this, but her teachers can see that something is wrong. Their solution is to put her into a special peer programme pairing her with another silent child. Mateo is autistic and it seems has decided that not speaking is the only way to blend in at school. Their relationship develops thanks to more unexpected and …
Jake Hope talks to Sydney Smith about Small in the City and winning the Kate Greenaway Medal for the second time. It was a delight to talk with Sydney Smith about his work and congratulate him on his second CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal, received for Small in the City. Like the running and cycling he does around the city, this conversation was something he fitted in ‘between the cracks of his work an …
View Full InterviewCatherine Millar tells us about the six primary schools involved in Waterstones Children’s Laureate Cressida Cowell’s Life-Changing Library campaign to show the transformative impact of school libraries on a child’s …
Patrick Ryan Patrick Ryan, shares an extract from his new book, Story Listening & Experience in Early Childhood. Once upon a time storytelling was widely seen in kindergartens, public schools, children’s librari …
Satoshi Kitamura’s picture book debut with Angry Arthur, won the Mother Goose Award for the most exciting newcomer to British illustration in 1983. Since then, Satoshi has illustrated over 20 of his own books and ma …
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