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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.

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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

Viaduct Child

Patrick Wood
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Artificial Intelligence: The Impact on our Lives

Alex Woolf
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Alex Does Drugs

Janine Amos
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Hello! says Olly Bear

Tony Kenyon
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I Want My Tooth

Tony Ross
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People Around the World

Antony Mason
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Ten Fingers

Ken Wilson-Max
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The Last Virgin

David Belbin
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Pop-up Toddlerobics

Zita Newcome
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Introducing Children’s Literature: From Romanticism to Postmodernism

Deborah Cogan Thacker, Jean Webb
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Screw Loose

Alison Prince
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Climbing a Monkey Puzzle Tree

Karen Wallace
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