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BfK 172 September 2008

September 1, 2008/in /by Richard Hill

This issue’s cover illustration by Mick Inkpen is from a new Kipper title, Hide Me, Kipper! (978 0 340 97045 4, £10.99 hbk). Mick Inkpen discusses his work on page 6. Thanks to Hodder Children’s Books for their help with this September cover.

New Talent

The Mysterious Benedict Society

Trenton Lee Stewart
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Mr Pusskins and Little Whiskers

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Articles

Editorial 172: September 2008
News and comment from the Editor.
Book to Screen
Julia Jarman on translating story into film.
Windows into Illustration: Mick Inkpen
Mick Inkpen explains the thinking behind his illustration.
Proust and the Squid: The story and science of the reading brain
Henrietta Dombey explores Maryanne Wolf’s application of neuroscience.
Authorgraph No.172: Anne Cassidy
Anne Cassidy is interviewed by Julia Eccleshare.
Peter Dickinson and the Hazards of Storytelling
Brian Alderson assesses Dickinson’s oeuvre.
Peter Dickinson: some information on his books for children
Brian Alderson provides extensive background information on Dickinson’s work.
BfK News: September 2008
Carnegie/Greenaway/Branford Boase prizewinners
Obituary: David Self
Geraldine Brennan remembers David Self.
Hal’s Reading Diary: September 2008
Roger Mills is trying not to push Hal to read.
Good Reads: Holy Trinity CE Primary School
Reviews from pupils of Holy Trinity CE Primary School, Cheltenham.
I Wish I’d Written: Joanne Harris
Joanne Harris chooses Neil Gaiman’s Coraline.
Laureate Log: September 2008
Michael Rosen meets DCSF Early Years people and goes on tour.
Classics in Short No.71: Anne of Green Gables
Brian Alderson on L M Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables.

Book Reviews

Grandpa’s Boat

Michael Catchpool
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The Ropes: poems to hold on to

Sophie Hannah, John Hegley
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Before Green Gables

Budge Wilson
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Aunt Nancy and the Bothersome Visitors

Phyllis Root
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The Ghost’s Child

Sonya Hartnett
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The Growing Story

Ruth Krauss
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Not a Box

Antoinette Portis
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Emily Goes to Market

William Mayne
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Rain

Kate le Vann
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Chicky Chicky Chook Chook

Cathy MacLennan
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Grumpy Cat

Britta Teckentrup
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Mr Pusskins and Little Whiskers

Sam Lloyd
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