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BfK 156 January 2006

January 1, 2006/in /by Richard Hill

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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Articles

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

Burger Boy

Alan Durant
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Witch Pigs

Colin Hawkins, Jacqui Hawkins
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Just Like You Did

Marjorie Newman
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Mr Large in Charge

Jill Murphy
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Man of the Match

Sophie Smiley
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Billy Wizard

Chris Priestley
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Elmer and Rose

David McKee
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Harry the Poisonous Centipede Goes to Sea

Lynne Reid Banks
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Belonging

Ruth Nason
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Outsiders

Kevin Crossley-Holland
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Super Zeroes

Rhiannon Lassiter
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I Wish I Were a Dog

Lydia Monks
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