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BfK 144 January 2004

January 1, 2004/in /by Richard Hill

This issue’s cover is from Garth Nix’s Mister Monday. Garth Nix is interviewed by Geoff Fox on page 6. Thanks to HarperCollins Children’s Books for their help with this January cover.

New Talent

The Tail of Emily Windsnap

Liz Kessler
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Editor's Choice

The Wolves in the Walls

Neil Gaiman
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Articles

Editorial 144: January 2004
News and comment from the Editor.
Windows into Illustration: Babette Cole
Babette Cole on Drop Dead and The Bad Good Manners Book.
What’s reading for anyway?
Alan Gibbons on the impact of SATS.
Authorgraph No.144: Garth Nix
Garth Nix is interviewed by Geoff Fox.
Peter Ackroyd’s ‘Voyages through Time’
Sue Unstead on a new approach to non-fiction.
BfK Profile: Kevin Brooks
Julia Eccleshare on the fiction of Kevin Brooks.
On Being an Editor
Miriam Hodgson on the author/editor relationship.
Listening to a good book
Angela Macpherson on the contribution of audio books.
BfK News: January 2004
News * Prizes * Letter to the Editor
Useful Organisations No.31
myBOOKSmag
Hal’s Reading Diary: January 2004
Roger Mills on his son Hal at nearly three.
I Wish I’d Written: Meg Cabot
Meg Cabot on Susan Juby's Blame It on the Hobbit.
Good Reads: Abbotsford School
Reviews by pupils from Abbotsford School, Kenilworth, Warwickshire.
Classics in Short No.43: Tales from Shakespear
Brian Alderson on Charles and Mary Lamb’s Tales from Shakespear (sic).

Book Reviews

The Field Guide (The Spiderwick Chronicles, Book 1)

Tony DiTerlizzi, Holly Black
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The Silver Child

Cliff McNish
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Autism

Sarah Lennard-Brown
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Ryland’s Footsteps

Sally Prue
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The Book of Dead Days

Marcus Sedgwick
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Icefire

Chris d’Lacey
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The Goose Girl

Shannon Hale
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The Opposite of Chocolate

Julie Bertagna
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A Jetblack Sunrise. Poems about War and Conflict

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Waving Not Drowning

Rosie Rushton
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The Braves

David Klass
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Sisterland

Linda Newbery
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