Editorial 240: January 2020

Happy New Year!

As we enter the third decade of the 21st century, Books for Keeps is preparing to celebrate our 40th anniversary. Issue number one – featuring an Authorgraph interview with Quentin Blake – was published in March 1980 and we’ve been taking children’s books seriously ever since. Indeed, this issue’s Authorgraph interview with Ross MacKenzie is the 240th in a series that features the most important children’s writers and illustrators of our time, from Victor Ambrus (number 74) to Benjamin Zephaniah (number 111).

We hope our readers will take part in the celebrations and we’d love to hear your thoughts and comments on the magazine. You can send them to enquiries@booksforkeeps.co.uk. Watch out for news of special events taking place throughout the year and do encourage friends and colleagues to sign up for our newsletters to get all the latest information delivered into their inboxes.

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