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BfK 179 November 2009

November 1, 2009/in /by Richard Hill

This issue’s cover illustration is from Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland illustrated by Robert Ingpen. Robert Ingpen is interviewed by Elizabeth Hammill. Thanks to Templar Publishing for their help with this November cover.

New Talent

Call Me Gorgeous!

Giles Milton
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Editor's Choice

Who Wants to be a Poodle? I Don’t!

Lauren Child
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Articles

Editorial 179: November 2009
News and comment from the Editor.
Christmas Books 2009
Rosemary Stones chooses books with a Christmas theme.
Ten of the Best: Audio Books on CD for Children
Julia Eccleshare chooses ten outstanding titles.
Developing Teachers’ Knowledge of Children’s Literature: Teachers as Readers, Phase II
Fiona M Collins, Teresa Cremin, Marilyn Mottram, Sacha Powell and Kimberly Safford report on the second part of the UKLA project.
A Conversation about Poetry: Twenty-two Signal Years
Brian Alderson on the Signal poetry award.
Authorgraph No.179: Robert Ingpen
Robert Ingpen is interviewed by Elizabeth Hammill.
BfK News: November 2009
Letter to the Editor * News * Obituaries * Awards * Event
Hal’s Reading Diary: November 2009
Roger Mills reflects on the importance of punctuation.
I Wish I’d Written: Hilary McKay
Hilary McKay chooses Harold Monro’s ‘Overheard on a Saltmarsh’.
Good Reads: St Martin’s Garden Primary School
Reviews from pupils of St Martin’s Garden Primary School, Bath.
Classics in Short No.78: Nonsense Songs and Stories and Nonsense Botany and Nonsense Alphabets
Brian Alderson on Edward Lear’s Nonsense Songs and Stories and Nonsense Botany and Nonsense Alphabets.

Book Reviews

Hetty Feather

Jacqueline Wilson
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The Great Death

John Smelcer
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The Rabbit Problem

Emily Gravett
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Grass

Cathy MacPhail
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No Added Sugar: growing up with type 1 diabetes

Fibi Ward
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The Keepers’ Daughter

Gill Arbuthnott
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Toby and the Secrets of the Tree

Timothée de Fombelle
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A Trick of the Dark

B R Collins
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Bird

Zetta Elliott
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Oliver Who Travelled Far and Wide

Mara Bergman
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Little Miss Muffet Counts to Ten

Emma Chichester Clark
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Finn Throws a Fit!

David Elliott
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