BfK 229 March 2018

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This issue’s cover illustration is from Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi. Thanks to Macmillan Children’s Books for their help with this March cover

New Talent

Brightstorm

Vashti Hardy
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Editor's Choice

Read the Book, Lemmings!

Ame Dyckman
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Articles

World Book Day – Keep up the momentum!
Tricia Kings offers ideas to keep the magic going.
Crying in the Classroom
How author Ali Sparkes was introduced to World Book Day.
Just One Click Away from an Author
Tony Bradman discovers how using social media can help in the classroom.
Authorgraph No.229: Guy Bass
Guy Bass interviewed by Damian Kelleher.
Windows into Illustration: Matt Carr
Matt Carr discusses his approach to creating books, and his signature ‘graphicness’.
Ten of the Best: Books by Helen Oxenbury and John Burningham
Nicolette Jones makes her selection.
Beyond the Secret Garden? England’s White and Pleasant Land
Darren Chetty and Karen Sands-O’Connor venture into the fictional gardens and the countryside of children’s literature.
Beetle Mania!
Michelle Pauli interviews M G Leonard about the Beetle Boy books.
Two Children Tell: Adventures as Sparrowhawk
Virginia Lowe remembers the impact Ursula Le Guin’s books had on her children.
The Wind in the Willows – Is it a Classic?
Peter Hunt argues that we have to be careful when classifying one of the most well known English books.
Night Kitchen Magic
In an extract from her new book, Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading, Lucy Mangan describes the impact of Maurice Sendak’s extraordinary classic.
I Wish I’d Written: Kate Pankhurst
Kate Pankhurst chooses Jane, the Fox and Me.
Good Reads: Glenthorne High School
Reviews chosen by young people at the Glenthorne High School, Sutton.
Classics in Short No.128: The Princess and the Goblin
Brian Alderson on George MacDonald’s pioneering and coherent fantasy adventure.
Island Settings and Adventures
Julia Green on her love affair with islands.
An Interview with Maz Evans
Philip Womack catches up with the author of the Who Let the Gods Out series, as book three, Beyond the Odyssey, is published.
An Interview with Karen Gregory
Andrea Reece interviews the author of Countless and Skylarks.

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