BfK 156 January 2006

This issue’s cover illustration is from Graham Marks’ Tokyo. Graham Marks is interviewed by Julia Eccleshare on page 10. Thanks to Bloomsbury Publishing for their help with this January cover.

New Talent

Fly By Night

Frances Hardinge

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Editor's Choice

Hubert Horatio Bartle Bobton-Trent

Lauren Child

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Editorial 156: January 2006

News and comment from the Editor.

J K Rowling by Stuart Pearson Wright at the National Portrait Gallery

Brian Sewell on the recently commissioned portrait.

Malorie Blackman’s ‘Noughts & Crosses’ Trilogy

Errol Lloyd assesses its appeal.

How should we teach children to read?

Henrietta Dombey debates synthetic phonics.

Story of the Storeys or Seven at one go

Brian Alderson discusses the new centre for the study of children’s literature.

Authorgraph No.156: Graham Marks

Graham Marks interviewed by Julia Eccleshare.

BfK News: January 2006

Events * Awards * Letters to the Editor

Useful Organisations No.42

Children's Poetry Bookshelf

Hal’s Reading Diary: January 2006

Roger Mills on Hal being taught to read.

I Wish I’d Written: Kevin Brooks

Kevin Brooks chooses Jack Gantos’s Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key.

Good Reads: Maidenhill School

Reviews from Maidenhill School, Gloucestershire.

Classics in Short No.55: Mary Poppins

Brian Alderson on P L Travers’ Mary Poppins.

Book Reviews

Kidogo

Anik McGrory

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Pablo the Artist

Satoshi Kitamura

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Fly By Night

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Hubert Horatio Bartle Bobton-Trent

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