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BfK 250 September 2021

September 21, 2021/in /by Richard Hill

This issue’s cover illustration is from Tilda Tries Again, written and illustrated by Tom Percival. Thanks to Bloomsbury Children’s Books for their help with our 250th cover.

New Talent

Fireborn: Twelve and the Frozen Forest

Aisling Fowler
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Editor's Choice

When Poems Fall from the Sky

Zaro Weil
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Articles

Guest Editorial 250: September 2021
Ed Vere paints a picture of how much visual literacy can achieve.
Changing the world, one library at a time
Catherine Millar goes behind the scenes of Cressida Cowell's Life-Changing Libraries campaign.
Poetry By Heart
Julie Blake on re-imagining the children's poetry anthology for the digital age.
The Power of Pictures
Charlotte Hacking describes CLPE's new research.
Windows into Illustration: John Broadley
John Broadley talks about his approach.
Authorgraph No.250: Tom Percival
Tom Percival interviewed by Ferelith Hordon.
Ten of the Best: Books about Emotions
Elizabeth Schlenther chooses the best books about emotions.
Beyond the Secret Garden: On Values, Knowledge and the Imagination
Darren Chetty and Karen Sands-O'Connor explore the notion of 'policing the imagination'.
Bookbird: A Flight through Time
Valerie Coghlan looks back at the journal's history.
Valediction No.1: Forbidding mourning
Brian Alderson bids a fond farewell to books from his collection.
A Q&A Interview with Philip Womack
Philip Womack on his new book, Wildlord.
An Interview with Frostheart author, Jamie Littler
Michelle Pauli talks to Jamie Littler about his Frostheart trilogy.
Fireborn: An Interview with Aisling Fowler
Andrea Reece talks to Aisling Fowler about her new children's fantasy series.
Tickling Terror Tropes: an interview with Klaus Flugge Prize winner Flavia Z Drago
Mat Tobin, one of the judges of this year's Klaus Flugge Prize, interviews 2021 winner Flavia Z Drago.

Book Reviews

The Queen on Our Corner

Lucy Christopher
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The Elephant in the Room

Holly Goldberg Sloan
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The Book Cat

Polly Faber
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Little Echo

Al Rodin
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Polka Dot Poems: 100 Weird and Wonderful Nature Haiku

Zaro Weil
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Oliver’s Lollipop    

Allison Wortche
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The Dream House

Laura Dockrill
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Football Superstars: Mané Rules

Simon Mugford
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Cloud Soup

Kate Wakeling
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A Different Sort of Normal

Abigail Balfe
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Yapping Away: Poems to Fill the World with Laughter

Joshua Seigel
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This Bee is not Afraid of Me

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