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BfK 188 May 2011

May 1, 2011/in /by Richard Hill

This issue’s cover illustration is from Emily Gravett’s Wolf Won’t Bite! Emily Gravett is interviewed in this issue. Thanks to Macmillan Children’s Books for their support for this May cover.

New Talent

Entangled

Cat Clarke
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Editor's Choice

The Tiger-Skin Rug

Gerald Rose
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Articles

Editorial 188: May 2011
News and comment from the Editor.
The Marketing and Reviewing of Multicultural Children’s Books
Rosemary Stones discusses the issues.
Young Adult Fiction Comes of Age?
Caroline Sanderson investigates the trends.
Flat Stanley: a Comic Hero
Elizabeth Hammill celebrates his appeal.
BfK Basics: Choosing Early Readers and Why They Matter
Alison Kelly expains how to support early readers.
Ten of the Best: Dystopian Novels
Geraldine Brennan chooses her top ten.
Windows into Illustration: Shaun Tan
Shaun Tan explains the approach and technique in his picture book The Red Tree.
Authorgraph No.188: Emily Gravett
Emily Gravett interviewed by Clive Barnes.
BfK News: May 2011
Awards, Publications and News.
Obituary: Diana Wynne Jones
Her editor Stella Paskins remembers her.
Hal’s Reading Diary: May 2011
Roger Mills describes Hal's emerging moral compass.
I Wish I’d Written: Lucy Christopher
Lucy Christopher chooses The Hunger Games.
Good Reads: Trafalgar Junior School Readers and Writers Club
Chosen by Year 6 (10/11 year old) members of the Trafalgar Junior School Readers and Writers Club, Twickenham, London.
Classics in Short No.87: James and the Giant Peach
Brian Alderson on Roald Dahl's James and the Giant Peach.
Roald Dahl and his illustrator Quentin Blake
Brian Alderson discusses the partnership of Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake.
Frances Lincoln’s New Poetry List
Morag Styles talks to Janetta Otter-Barry of Frances Lincoln about her new poetry list.
John Connolly Turns to Children’s Fiction
John Connolly interviewed by Graham Marks.
An Interview with Mal Peet
Caroline Sanderson questions Mal Peet on Life: An Exploded Diagram.
Don Calame interviewed by Graham Marks
Graham Marks interviews Don Calame and learns how his debut novel came about.
Garth Nix and Sean Williams in a Collaborative Venture
Graham Marks asks them about their new collaboration, Troubletwisters.
Josh Lacey on The Island of Thieves
Josh Lacey answers our questions.

Book Reviews

The Tiger-Skin Rug

Gerald Rose
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Billionaire Boy

David Walliams
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On the Blue Comet

Rosemary Wells
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Book Power: Literacy through Literature, Year 2

Jane Bunting, Sue Ellis, Jenny Vernon
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Tree Soup

Joel Stewart
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Ice Maiden

Sally Prue
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A Walk in London

Salvatore Rubbino
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Bracelet of Bones

Kevin Crossley-Holland
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Number Circus: 1-10 and back again!

Kveta Pacovska
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Life: An Exploded Diagram

Mal Peet
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The Story of Britain

Patrick Dillon
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Between Shades of Gray

Ruta Sepetys
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