Bfk 267 July 2024

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This issue’s cover illustration is from Aqua Boy written and illustrated by Ken Wilson-Max. Thanks to Otter-Barry Books for their help with this cover.

New Talent

Apocalypse Cow

O.R. Sorrel
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Editor's Choice

The Boy on Fire

Sarthak Sinha
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Articles

An interview with the remarkable Clotilde Perrin
Mat Tobin interviews Clotilde Perrin about her new book The Remarkables
Join in the Twirly Wiggly Dance
Farrah Riaz introduces her debut picture book
Welsh Treasures An interview with Catherine Fisher
Catherine Fisher interviewed by Tanja Jennings
Editorial 267
News from the children's book world
Reading Rights: Books Build a Brighter Future
An interview with the new Waterstones Children’s Laureate Frank Cottrell-Boyce
Authorgraph No 267: Manon Steffan Ros
Manon Steffan Ros interviewed by Clive Barnes
Ten of the Best: Fairytale Collections for Children
Chosen by Neil Philip
Windows into Illustration: Marjoke Henrichs
Marjoke Henrichs is inspired by her cat
Picture This: Interior with Woman
The latest in a new Books for Keeps illustration series by Nicolette Jones
Beyond the Secret Garden: Palestinian People in Children’s Books
Representation of Palestinians in children’s literature
Books beyond Great Britain: Reading New Zealand
Rachael King highlights the great children’s books coming out of New Zealand
An interview with Ken Wilson-Max
Ken Wilson-Max: author and publisher – an interview
Changing the literary landscape: an introduction to the Jhalak Prize
Introducing the Jhalak Prize by founder Sunny Singh
Here Be Dragons
An exploration of the new exhibition at Oxford’s Story Museum
I wish I’d Written: Caroline Pitcher
Caroline Pitcher chooses a joyful story.
Good Reads: Thomas Mills High School, Woodbridge, Suffolk
Good Reads chosen by young people at Thomas Mills High School, Woodbridge
Valediction 17: Mr Punch
Brian Alderson says goodbye, Mr Punch
Party Animals
Nadia Shireen interviewed by Michelle Pauli.

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