BOOKS FOR KEEPS

is the UK’s leading, independent children’s book magazine. It was launched in 1980 and ever since has been reviewing hundreds of new children’s books each year and publishing articles on every aspect of writing for children. There are over 12,500 reviews on our new website and more than 2,000 articles including interviews with the top children’s authors and illustrators.

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Michelle Pauli steps through a portal to a magic world to interview Ash Bond about her debut novel, Peregrine Quinn and the Cosmic Realm. ‘If I could give any writer advice, it would be: don’t create a cast of immortal characters because you have to re …

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Bfk 265 March 2024

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.

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