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BfK 138 January 2003

January 1, 2003/in /by Richard Hill

This issue’s cover illustration is from Alan Gibbons’s Caught in the Crossfire. Alan Gibbons is interviewed by George Hunt on page 12. Thanks to Orion Children’s Books for their help with this January cover.

New Talent

Notes from a Liar and her Dog

Gennifer Choldenko
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Editor's Choice

Goodbye Mog

Judith Kerr
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Articles

Editorial 138: January 2003
News and comment from the Editor.
Mightier Than The Sword
Shereen Pandit on children and books in Palestine.
Launching Young Readers: How to navigate through the series
Julia Eccleshare on young fiction series.
Strange Boy or Weird World?
Jonathan Douglas on Paul Magrs’s novel, Strange Boy.
The Wonderful Thing
Paul Magrs on teen gay fiction.
Authorgraph No.138: Alan Gibbons
Alan Gibbons interviewed by George Hunt.
BfK Profile: Sonya Hartnett
Nicholas Tucker on Sonya Hartnett.
Hal’s Reading Diary: January 2003
Roger Mills on his son Hal at 22 months.
Useful Organisations No.25
Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators
BfK News: January 2003
News * Prizes
I Wish I’d Written: Celia Rees
Celia Rees on Susan Price's The Sterkarm Handshake.
Good Reads: Milford-on-Sea Primary School
Reviews by pupils from Milford-on-Sea Primary School, Hampshire.
Classics in Short No.37: Peacock Pie
Brian Alderson on Walter de la Mare’s Peacock Pie.

Book Reviews

Starseeker

Tim Bowler
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Dogs Don’t Tell Jokes

Louis Sachar
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Guide to the Human Body: A photographic journey through the human body

Richard Walker
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Abarat

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How Will I Grow?

Mick Manning, Brita Granström
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The Improbable Cat

Allan Ahlberg
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Water Supply: Our Impact on the Planet

Rob Bowden
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Mythological Monsters of Ancient Greece

Sara Fanelli
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The World Came to My Place Today

Jo Readman
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The Nightingale that Shrieked and other tales

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Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Book?

Lauren Child
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Is That the New Moon?

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