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BfK 180 January 2010

January 1, 2010/in /by Richard Hill

This issue’s cover illustration is from Cressida Cowell’s How to Train Your Dragon. Cressida Cowell is interviewed by Clive Barnes. Thanks to Hodder Children’s Books for their help with this January cover.

New Talent

Red Riding Hood: A Pop-Up Book

Louise Rowe
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Editor's Choice

Red Ted and the Lost Things

Michael Rosen
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Articles

Editorial 180: January 2010
News and comment from the Editor.
Children’s Laureate Anthony Browne on appreciating picture books
Anthony Browne discusses sources of inspiration.
Movables: Paper Engineering Techniques and Their Use and Development in Children’s Books
Mike Simkin and Rosemary Temperley explain.
Multi-lingual Storytelling
Anna McQuinn discusses storytelling with children with different home languages.
Authorgraph No.180: Cressida Cowell
Cressida Cowell is interviewed by Clive Barnes.
Sharon Creech: a writer who takes risks
Sharon Creech talks to Julia Eccleshare about her latest book.
BfK News: January 2010
Awards
Hal’s Reading Diary: January 2010
Roger Mills on sharing the Harry Potter books at bedtime.
I Wish I’d Written: Hilda Offen
Hilda Offen chooses Ursula Moray Williams’s Jeffy, the Burglar’s Cat.
Good Reads: Trafalgar Junior School
Reviews from pupils of Trafalgar Junior School, Twickenham, Middlesex Readers and Writers Club.
Classics in Short No.79: When We Were Very Young
Brian Alderson on A A Milne’s When We Were Very Young.

Book Reviews

Cross Crocodile

Mwenye Hadithi
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Ella Bella Ballerina and Cinderella

James Mayhew
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Christopher Nibble

Charlotte Middleton
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Mrs Cockle’s Cat

Philippa Pearce
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The Dunderheads

Paul Fleischman
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1001 Children’s Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up

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Scat

Carl Hiaasen
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The Flight of the Mermaid

Gita Wolf, Sirish Rao
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Sustainable Cities

Angela Royston
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Food Chain

M P Robertson
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Wow! Earth

John Woodward
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Skinned

Robin Wasserman
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