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BfK 258 January 2023

January 19, 2023/in /by bookskeeps

This issue’s cover illustration is from Monster! Thirsty! Drink! by Sean Taylor, illustrated by Fred Benaglia. Thanks to Bloomsbury Children’s Books for their help with this cover.

New Talent

Wildoak

C. C. Harrington
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Editor's Choice

The Ever-Changing Earth

Grahame Baker-Smith
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Articles

A Q&A Interview with Anna Goodall
Author Anna Goodall answers our questions on Maggie Blue and the White Crow
An interview with Méabh Collins
Author Méabh Collins talks about her book Freya Harte is not a Puzzle
Why Poetry?
Simon Lamb introduces his collection of 50 fifty-word poems
A Q&A Interview with Padmacandra
Don't Be Silly - Padmacandra answers our questions on her new book
An interview with Dhonielle Clayton
Open to all: Dhonielle Clayton on her new magic school series, The Marvellers
2023 Read for Empathy collection – an introduction from the librarian judges
Discover the Read for Empathy book collections
A Q&A Interview with Liz Flanagan
A Q&A interview with author Liz Flanagan
Taking a Leap: an interview with Patience Agbabi
Patience Agbabi interviewed by Fiona Noble
Editorial 258
Editorial
Why Working-Class Voices Matter
Where are the Working Class Voices? by author Eve Ainsworth
New Year Predictions 2023
A panel of experts look into the future
Books of the Year 2023
What will we be reading in 2023?
Authorgraph No.258: Sean Taylor
Sean Taylor interviewed by Clive Barnes
Windows into Illustration: Duncan Beedie
Duncan Beedie on an unusual ‘love’ book
Beyond the Secret Garden: Transitions
By Darren Chetty and Karen Sands-O’Connor
Witness Literature
Beverly Naidoo on the importance of speaking truth to readers
I Wish I’d Written: Clare Weze
Clare Weze on the books that gave her permission to fly
A Classic in Short revisited
by Brian Alderson

Book Reviews

A Different Kind of Freedom – A Romani Story

Richard O’Neill
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Time Travel at Puddle Lane

Emma Shevah
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Girlhood Unfiltered: A Milk Honey Bees Essay Collection

Ebinehita Iyere
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Speak Up

Rebecca Burgess
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Telling Tales: Journeys in Creative Writing

Rudi Haig
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A is for BEE: an alphabet book in translation

Ellen Heck
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The Tale of Truthwater Lake

Emma Carroll
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Well Done, Mummy Penguin

Chris Haughton
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Pick a Story: A Dinosaur Unicorn Robot Adventure

Sarah Coyle
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An Unexpected Thing

Ashling Lindsay
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Bookworms

Nyanda Foday
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The Women who Invented Twentieth-Century Children’s Literature

Elizabeth West
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