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BfK 139 March 2003

March 1, 2003/in /by Richard Hill

This issue’s cover illustration, by David Roberts, is from Philip Ardagh’s Heir of Mystery published by Faber in April. Philip Ardagh is interviewed by Jeff Hynds on page 8. Thanks to Faber for their help with this March cover.

New Talent

Viaduct Child

Patrick Wood
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Editor's Choice

Big Mama Makes the World

Phyllis Root
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Articles

Editorial 139: March 2003
News and comment from the Editor.
Non-Fiction Publishing: The Facts of the Matter
Sue Unstead on the different kinds of non-fiction publishing.
Authorgraph No.139: Philip Ardagh
Philip Ardagh interviewed by Jeff Hynds.
St Martin’s Top Ten Fiction Titles
Jan Butler on a school library survey.
Expanding the Critical Commentary on Children’s Literature
Margaret Meek on the Rustins’ Narratives of Love and Loss.
Devastatingly True Stories
Julia Eccleshare and Beverley Naidoo on the young adult novels of Henning Mankell.
Hal’s Reading Diary: March 2003
Roger Mills on his son Hal at 24 months.
BfK News: March 2003
News * Prizes * Letters to the Editor
Obituary: Jean MacGibbon
Rosemary Stones writes…
Obituary: Vanessa Hamilton
Useful Organisations No.25
Write Away!
I Wish I’d Written: David Almond
David Almond on Kevin Henkes's Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse.
Good Reads: The Dragon School
Reviews by pupils from The Dragon School, Oxford.
Classics in Short No.38: Eric or Little by Little
Brian Alderson on F W Farrar’s Eric; or Little by Little.

Book Reviews

What the Birds See

Sonya Hartnett
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123 Follow Me!

Philippe Dupasquier
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Ten Red Apples

Virginia Miller
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One Small Suitcase

Barry Turner
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Diary of a Princess: A Tale from Marco Polo’s Travels

Heather Maisner
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Human Body Revealed

Sue Davidson, Ben Morgan
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Doctor Quack

Geraldine McCaughrean
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The Beet Fields

Gary Paulsen
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Girls in Tears

Jacqueline Wilson
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Boy Overboard

Morris Gleitzman
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Going For Stone

Philip Gross
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Massive

Julia Bell
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