BfK 224 May 2017

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This issue’s cover illustration features The Pavee and the Buffer Girl by Siobhan Dowd and Emma Shoard. Thanks to Barrington Stoke for their help with this May cover.

New Talent

Mold and the Poison Plot

Lorraine Gregory
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Virginia Wolf

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Articles

Editorial 224: May 2017
News and comment from the Editor.
The Story of The Pavee and the Buffer Girl
Tony Bradman on the commission that launched the career of Siobhan Dowd.
Celebrating Poetry: with the CLiPPA and in the classroom
Charlotte Hacking discusses this year's award.
Windows into Illustration: Steve Lenton
Steve Lenton introduces his new picture book, Let’s Find Fred.
Authorgraph No.224: Elizabeth Wein
Elizabeth Wein interviewed by Anna James.
Ten of the Best: Books to Introduce Children to Politics
Catherine Barter, author of the political thriller Troublemakers, and bookseller at Housmans, London’s oldest radical bookshop, makes her choice.
Rewarding Reads
Jake Hope celebrates the Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals.
Magic, Mother-daughter Bonds, and Feeling ‘Outsiderish’
Michelle Pauli talks to Irena Brignull about The Hawkweed Prophecy.
The Mizielinskis under the Microscope
Andrea Reece talks to the Polish illustrators about their new approach to information books.
Two Children Tell: Nicholas and Grendel
Virginia Lowe recalls her son Nicholas’s first encounters with Beowulf.
I Wish I’d Written: Jason Wallace
Jason Wallace chooses Lord of the Flies.
Good Reads: The Hemel Hempstead School
Reviews chosen by young people at the Hemel Hempstead School, Hemel Hempstead.
Obituary: Margaret Mallett
BfK remembers.
Classics in Short No.123: The Pilgrim’s Progress
Brian Alderson on the earliest attempt to adapt John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress for young readers.
The Ravenmaster’s Boy
Mary Hoffman explains her approach to her book and to retelling a story we’ve all studied at school.
An Interview with Emma Donoghue
The author of Room interviewed by Imogen Russell Williams about her debut children's book.
An Interview with Sebastien de Castell
Anna James talks to the author of Spellslinger.
An Interview with the 2017 Kate Greenaway medal winner Lane Smith
Exclusive Books for Keeps interview by Clive Barnes.
An Interview with the 2017 Carnegie Medal winner Ruta Sepetys
An exclusive Books for Keeps interview by Nicholas Tucker.
An Interview with Rachel Hickman
Andrea Reece talks to Rachel Hickman about her book One Silver Summer.

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