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BfK 256 September 2022

September 15, 2022/in /by bookskeeps

This issue’s cover illustration is from Bandoola: The Great Elephant Rescue by William Grill. Thanks to Flying Eye Books for their help with our September cover.

New Talent

Mwikali and the Forbidden Mask

Shiko Nguru
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Editor's Choice

Her Dark Wings

Melinda Salisbury
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Articles

The BfK Christmas Gift Guide booklist 2022
Ghostlight, an interview with Kenneth Oppel
Nicholas Tucker talks ghosts, lighthouses and storytelling with author Kenneth Oppel
Having a blast: an interview with Katie and Kevin Tsang
Michelle Pauli interviews bestselling duo Katie and Kevin Tsang
Tyger, tyger: An interview with SF Said
The author of Varjak Paw talks to Imogen Russell Williams about his new novel Tyger
Editorial 256
From the editor
All eyes on a new prize: the Adrien Prize
Find out more about the new Adrien Prize
Sorrow and Love: The Poetry of the English Folktale
Neil Philip explores the poetry of the English Folktale
Authorgraph No.256: William Grill
William Grill interviewed by Clive Barnes
Windows into Illustration: Chris Judge
Chris Judge on Cloud Babies
Ten of the Best: Verse Novels
Ten of the Best Verse Novels: chosen by Charlotte Hacking of CLPE
The Language of Drawing
Martin Salisbury defines illustration
Beyond the Secret Garden: Lessons from School Books
Darren Chetty and Karen Sands-O’Connor go back to school
A Story from the Archive: the writing of War Horse
Sarah Lawrance delves into the Seven Stories archive to find out more about the writing of War Horse
Make way for the Instasimi Warriors
Obituary: Joan Lingard
Joan Lingard remembered by Nicholas Tucker
Valediction No.7: Walls and Wagons
Valediction No 7: Walls and Wagons by Brian Alderson

Book Reviews

Five Bears. A Tale of Friendship

Catherine Rayner
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The Whale Watchers

Dougie Poynter
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An Imaginary Menagerie

Roger McGough
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Shu Lin’s Grandpa

Matt Goodfellow
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The Zebra’s Great Escape

Katherine Rundell
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The Girl Who Noticed Everything

Jane Porter
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Am I Made of Stardust?

Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock
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Our Tower

Joseph Coelho
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I Want the Moon

Frann Preston-Gannon
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Attack of the Giant Baby

David Lucas
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Safe

Vanessa Harbour
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What Do You See When You Look at a Tree?

Emma Carlisle
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