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Bfk 265 March 2024

March 18, 2024/in /by bookskeeps

This issue’s cover illustration is Where Sleeping Girls Lie by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé. Cover artwork by Aykut Aydoğdu. Thanks to Usborne for their help with this cover.

New Talent

The Cat Who Couldn’t Be Bothered

Jack Kurland
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Editor's Choice

Where the Heart Should Be

Sarah Crossan
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Articles

Enter the world of Peregrine Quinn: an interview with Ash Bond
An interview with debut author Ash Bond
Editorial 265
News from the children’s book world and an introduction to the gab
Reimagining Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island
Jewell Parker Rhodes transfers Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic to 21st centure New York
Comics: The Answer to The UK’s Literacy Crisis?
Peter Kessler asks the question.
Authorgraph No 265: Catherine Doyle
Catherine Doyle interviewed by Fiona Noble
Windows into Illustration: Mariajo Ilustrajo
Mariajo Ilustrajo on creating I Hate Love Books
Ten of the Best Books About Pirates
Ann Lazim says oooh-arrrrrr
Beyond the Secret Garden: Reading Joyfully
By Darren Chetty and Karen Sands-O’Connor
Adventuring with Reeve and McIntyre
Andrea Reece interviews one of the great comedy double acts of children’s books
Kate Saunders
An appreciation by Nicholas Tucker
I Wish I’d Written: Alex T Smith
Alex T Smith chooses a honkingly funny series
Obituary Niki Daly
Niki Daly remembered by Janetta Otter-Barry
Valediction 15: A Toy Town Box
Valediction Number 15: Brian Alderson says goodbye to Toy Town
Legends of the Sky: an interview with Liz Flanagan
Michelle Pauli interviews Liz Flanagan about her newly completed trilogy Legends of the Sky

Book Reviews

Amazing Octopus: Creature from an Unknown World

Michael Stavaric
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Girl on the Fly

Nansubuga Nagadya Isdahl
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A Home for Stone

Corrinne Averiss
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A Horse Called Now

Ruth Doyle
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Measuring ME!

Nicola Kent
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Clever Crow

Chris Butterworth
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A First Book of Dinosaurs

Simon Mole
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The Djinn’s Apple

Djamila Morani
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My Baby Sister is a Diplodocus

Aurore Petit
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The Prickletrims Go Wild

Marie Dorléans
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One Sweet Song

Jyoti Rajan Gopal
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Red Sky at Night, Poet’s Delight

Alex Wharton
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