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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.

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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

No Such Thing as Dragons

Philip Reeve
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The Crowfield Curse

Pat Walsh
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Running Wild

Michael Morpurgo
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Charlie Bone and the Red Knight

Jenny Nimmo
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Hush, Hush

Becca Fitzpatrick
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The Credit Crunch

Colin Hynson
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Aids

Otto James
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Out of Iraq: Refugees’ Stories in Words, Paintings and Music

Sybella Wilkes
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The Poison Garden

Sarah Singleton
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The Squirrel’s Birthday and Other Parties

Toon Tellegen
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Red Riding Hood: A Pop-Up Book

Louise Rowe
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Sleepy or Not, Mr Croc?

Jo Lodge
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