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BfK 259 March 2023

March 22, 2023/in /by bookskeeps

This issue’s cover illustration is from Winter’s Keep by Tamsin Mori, illustration by David Dean. Thanks to UCLan Publishing for their help with this cover.

New Talent

The Swifts

Beth Lincoln
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Editor's Choice

A Passing On of Shells: 50 Fifty-Word Poems

Simon Lamb
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Articles

An Interview with Amy Clarkin
Find out What Walks These Halls, the ghostly debut from Amy Clarkin
An interview with Jaclyn Moriarty
An interview with Jaclyn Moriarty
Editorial 259
Guest Editorial: the Great School Libraries Campaign by Mary-Rose Grieve
Rainbow World: An interview with Laura Ellen Anderson
Rainbow World: Fiona Noble interviews Laura Ellen Anderson
Ten of the Best: Great Australian Children’s/YA Books
Great Australian Children’s Books chosen by Judith Ridge
Authorgraph No.259: Candy Gourlay
Candy Gourlay interviewed by Andrea Reece
Windows into Illustration: Leo Timmers
Leo Timmers on telling stories through pictures
YA Fiction! What is it good for?
An extract from Deborah Lindsay Williams’ new book, The Necessity of Young Adult Fiction
Beyond the Secret Garden: Magic
Beyond the Secret Garden: It’s Magic! by Darren Chetty and Karen Sands-O’Connor
O Tell Me the Truth About Poetry in Schools
What does CLPE’s new report into the place of poetry in primary schools tell us.
Good Reads: Brixington Primary Academy, Exmouth
Good Reads chosen by young people at Brixington Primary Academy, Exmouth.
Marcus Sedgwick
Marcus Sedgwick remembered through his books by Nicholas Tucker
Valediction No.9: Small Gang
Brian Alderson bids farewell to Peter Duck

Book Reviews

The Dark and Dangerous Gifts of Delores Mackenzie

Yvonne Banham
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The Time Tider

Sinéad O’Hart
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Granny and Bean

Karen Hesse
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Oh, Armadillo! This Party’s All Wrong!

Ellie Irving
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Word Trouble

Vyara Boyadjieva
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My Baba’s Garden

Jordan Scott
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So You Want to Be a Frog

Jane Porter
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Outside

Bee Chuck
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Saving Sorya: Chang and the Sun Bear

Trang Nguyen
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My especially weird week with Tess

Anna Wolz
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Fritz and Kurt

Jeremy Dronfield
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What the World Doesn’t See

Mel Darbon
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