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BfK 142 September 2003

September 1, 2003/in /by Richard Hill

This issue’s cover illustration is from David Almond’s The Fire-Eaters. Cover photography is by Getty Images. David Almond is interviewed by Peter Hollindale on page 8. Thanks to Hodder Children’s Books for their help with this September cover.

New Talent

Power and Stone

Alice Leader
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Editor's Choice

Ginger Finds a Home

Charlotte Voake
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Articles

Editorial 142: September 2003
News and comment from the Editor.
Illustration on Show
Joanna Carey on the proposed Quentin Blake gallery.
Windows into Illustration: Lauren Child
Lauren Child on Clarice Bean, That’s Me.
Authorgraph No.142: David Almond
David Almond is interviewed by Peter Hollindale.
Audio Books and Reluctant Readers
Julia Eccleshare on listening to stories.
Hal’s Reading Diary: September 2003
Roger Mills on his son Hal at 30 months.
‘Art is a lie that tells the truth’
Meg Errington on the depiction of autism in children’s books
BfK News: September 2003
News * Prizes
Useful Organisations No.29
The Beatrix Potter Society
I Wish I’d Written: Eoin Colfer
Eoin Colfer on Louis Sachar's Holes.
Good Reads: Lode Heath School
Reviews by pupils from Lode Heath School, Solihull.
Classics in Short No.41: Moonfleet
Brian Alderson on John Meade Falkner’s Moonfleet.

Book Reviews

Shark Attack

Anthony Masters
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Power and Stone

Alice Leader
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The Tempestuous Voyage of Hopewell Shakespeare

Sophie Masson
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Leonardo da Vinci and his Super-brain

Michael Cox
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Suffragette

Carol Drinkwater
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big mouth and ugly girl

Joyce Carol Oates
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Montmorency

Eleanor Updale
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The Sex Book

Jane Pavanel
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Tom’s Tail

Linda Jennings
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Boys and Girls Forever, Reflections on Children’s Classics

Alison Lurie
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Reading and Reader Development: The Pleasure of Reading

Judith Elkin, Briony Train, Debbie Denham
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The New Yellow Digger

Steve Augarde
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