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BfK 181 March 2010

March 1, 2010/in /by Richard Hill

This issue’s cover illustration is from Brian Wildsmith’s The Hare and the Tortoise (© Brian Wildsmith 1966) published by Oxford University Press and re-issued in 2007 (978 0 19 272708 4, £5.99 pbk). Brian Wildsmith’s work is discussed by Joanna Carey in this issue. Thanks to Oxford University Press for their help with this March cover.

New Talent

Quicksilver

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Editor's Choice

The General

Janet Charters
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Articles

Editorial 181: March 2010
News and comment from the Editor.
The Children’s Books of the Decade
Rosemary Stones reflects on the first ten years of the new millennium.
Brian Wildsmith: A retrospective
Joanna Carey assesses his unique contribution.
Ten of the Best: Books that Introduce Children to Art
Martin Salisbury chooses his top ten.
Authorgraph No.181: Elizabeth Laird
Elizabeth Laird interviewed by Nicholas Tucker.
A Time Like No Other
Peter Hollindale discusses A S Byatt’s The Children’s Book.
BfK News: March 2010
Event * Award
Useful Organisations No.52: Perform-a-Poem
Perform-a-Poem
Hal’s Reading Diary: March 2010
Roger Mills on the appeal of violence to children in their books.
I Wish I’d Written: Anthony McGowan
Anthony McGowan chooses Alan Garner’s Red Shift.
Good Reads: Bishop Rawstorne C of E Language College
Chosen by the pupils of Bishop Rawstorne C of E Language College, Lancashire
Classics in Short No.80: The Eagle of the Ninth
Brian Alderson on Rosemary Sutcliff’s The Eagle of the Ninth.

Book Reviews

The Wainscott Weasel

Tor Seidler
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Umpteen Pockets: New and Collected Poems for Children

Adrian Mitchell
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Yucky Worms

Vivian French
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The General

Janet Charters
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Yummy

Lucy Cousins
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The Man Who Lost His Head

Claire Huchet Bishop
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This is my Book

Mick Inkpen
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Cars: A pop-up book of automobiles

Robert Crowther
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The Battle of the Sun

Jeanette Winterson
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The Kites Are Flying!

Michael Morpurgo
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Alice in Wonderland

Emma Chichester Clark
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Bram Stoker’s Dracula

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