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BfK No. 198 - January 2013
BfK 198 January 2013

This issue's cover illustration is by David Melling and is from We Love You, Hugless Douglas! Thanks to Hodder Children's Books for their help with this cover.

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BfK No. 198 Articles

2013: all change

What will 2013 hold
for the children’s book world?
An Awfully Interactive Adventure

Author Fleur Hitchcock explains www.thestoryadventure.com
Windows into Illustration: Jackie Morris

Jackie Morris on how she created the illustrations for ‘East of the
Sun, West of the Moon’.
Ten of the Best Books in Translation

Deborah Hallford of Outside In World chooses her top ten.
Literary Ventriloquism

Daniel Hahn on the translator’s art.
THERE’S SOMETHING ABOUT JANE

Caroline Sanderson asks how old do you have to be to read Jane Austen.
Authorgraph interview 198 Sally Gardner

Costa Award winner Sally Gardner interviewed by Clive Barnes.
There won’t be time for English in English

Robert Hull on the draft National Curriculum for English.
Hal's Reading Diary January 2013

Roger Mills looks back over eleven years of Hal’s reading.
Brilliant Bookshop Storytellers Inc. Lancashire

Katie Clapham on Storytellers Inc. Lancashire
Alex Shearer I Wish I'd Written

Alex Shearer chooses a sci fi classic.
Good Reads 198

Reviews from Monk Walk School, Welwyn Garden City.
Classic in Short 198

Brian Alderson on Nils Holgersson’s Wonderful Journey.
Q and A Interview with Hilary McKay

Hilary McKay answers questions about her new novel Binny for Short

Jan Ormerod 1946 – 2013

Jan Ormerod the author and illustrator has died after a short illness. Her friend Jana Hunter remembers her.
Q and A interview with C J Flood

C J FLood answers our questions on her debut novel Infinite Sky.

Editor's Choice

I Have the Right to Be a Child
Alain Serres
(Phoenix Yard Books)
5

Imagine the challenge of creating a picturebook from the 54 articles of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child: putting the articles into a language that can be understood by younger children, and, through words and pictures,...

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New Talent

The Weight of Water
Sarah Crossan
(Bloomsbury Childrens)
5

Kasienka and her mother come to Coventry from Poland, looking for Kasienka’s Tata (Father), who walked out on them two years earlier. Their story is told throughout in first person narrative by Kasienka. At school, where she is ‘Cassie’, Kasienka...

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All Children's Book Reviews in BfK No. 198

  • Under 5s
  • Ages 5-8
  • Ages 8-10
  • Ages 10-14
  • Ages 14+
  • Books About Children's Books

Under 5s

  • Big Book of Nursery Rhymes
    Kali Stileman
    5

  • We Love You, Hugless Douglas!
    David Melling
    4

  • Jumblebum
    Chae Strathie
    4

  • No-Bot: The Robot with No Bottom
    Sue Hendra
    3

  • Jack’s Mega Machines: The Dinosaur Digger
    Alise Ritchie
    3

  • Brave Squish Rabbit
    Katherine Battersby
    3

  • The Princess and the Pig
    Jonathan Emmett
    3

  • I Want a Boyfriend!
    Tony Ross
    3

Ages 5-8

  • I Have the Right to Be a Child
    Alain Serres
    5

  • Buzzing! Discover the poetry in garden minibeasts
    Anneliese Emmans Dean
    5

  • Monkey Nut
    Simon Rickerty
    5

  • Newspaper Boy and Origami Girl

    Michael Foreman
    5

  • Ernest and Celestine
    Gabrielle Vincent
    4

  • Winnie’s Dinosaur Day (Winnie the Witch)
    Valerie Thomas
    3

  • Super Soccer Boy and the Monster Mutants
    Judy Brown
    3

  • Poo Bum
    Stephanie Blake
    3

  • My Happy Life
    Rose Lagercrantz
    3

Ages 8-10

  • Fantastic Mr Dahl
    Michael Rosen
    5

  • Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Third Wheel
    Jeff Kinney
    5

  • Walter Tull's Scrapbook
    Michaela Morgan
    4

  • Just Imagine
    Pippa Goodhart
    4

  • Beast Quest: Ferrok the Iron Soldier
    Adam Blade
    4

  • The Snow Bear
    Holly Webb
    3

Ages 10-14

  • Terezín A Story of the Holocaust
    Ruth Thomson
    5

  • Fearless
    Cornelia Funke
    5

  • Geek Girl
    Holly Smale
    5

  • The Great Unexpected
    Sharon Creech
    5

  • The Fire Chronicle
    John Stephens
    5

  • Scramasax
    Kevin Crossley-Holland
    5

  • Geek Inc.Technoslime Terror!
    Mark Griffiths
    5

  • In the Sea there are Crocodiles
    Fabio Geda
    4

  • Midnight Pirates
    Ally Kennen
    4

  • Dead Romantic
    C J Skuse
    4

  • Lexiland
    Suzi Moore
    4

  • 101 Poets for Children: A Laureate’s Choice
    4

  • Sea of Whispers
    Tim Bowler
    3

  • Tree of Leaf and Flame
    Daniel Morden
    3

  • Oblivion
    Anthony Horowitz
    3

  • Shiverton Hall
    Emerald Fennell
    3

  • Darwen Arkwright and the Peregrine Pact
    A J Hartley
    3

  • Soldier Dog
    Sam Angus
    3

Ages 14+

  • The Weight of Water
    Sarah Crossan
    5

  • Hostage Three
    Nick Lake
    5

  • The Winds of Heaven
    Judith Clarke
    5

  • Being here
    Barry Jonsberg
    5

  • Ketchup Clouds
    Annabel Pitcher
    4

  • Legacy
    C.J. Daugherty
    4

  • How to Fall
    Jane Casey
    4

  • Sister Assassin
    Kiersten White
    4

  • A Pocketful of Eyes
    Lili Wilkinson
    3

  • The Fault in our Stars
    John Green
    3

  • From What I Remember
    Stacy Kramer
    Valerie Thomas
    3

  • Hunger
    Melvin Burgess
    2

  • Never Fall Down
    Patricia McCormick
    0

Books About Children's Books

  • John Burningham: Behind the Scenes

    John Burningham
    5

BfK News

EVA ELAND NAMED WINNER OF THE FIFTH KLAUS FLUGGE PRIZE

Eva Eland has won the 2020 Klaus Flugge Prize for the most exciting and promising newcomer to children’s picture book illustration. She won for her book When Sadness Comes to Call (Andersen Press), in which a young child opens the door to an unexpected visitor, Sadness, personified as a semi-transparent amorphous shape.

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THE JHALAK PRIZE: A NEW PRIZE FOR BOOKS FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS WRITTEN BY WRITERS OF COLOUR

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LIZ HYDER AND EDITOR SARAH ODEDINA WIN 2020 BRANFORD BOASE AWARD

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UK NOMINATIONS IBBY’S OUTSTANDING BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES 2021

Every two years, IBBY invites nominations from national sections for its international list of Outstanding Books for Young People with Disabilities. The final list is selected from these by the IBBY Documentation Centre of Books for Young People with Disabilities, based in Toronto. Because of its international content, the list is unique in the children’s book world. It is a huge voluntary undertaking as every country is encouraged to submit up to twelve titles across the three categories.

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NEW CROWD-FUNDED CHILDREN’S BOOK TO RETELL BRITAIN’S OLDEST STORIES

Children’s Laureate of Wales, Eloise Williams and author Matt Brown have launched a new crowdfunded project, The Mab.

The Mab

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LOOK UP! WINNERS OF THE WATERSTONES CHILDREN’S BOOK PRIZE 2020 NAMED

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THE 2020 LITTLE REBELS AWARD SHORTLIST

The shortlist for the 2020 Little Rebels Award has been announced. The Little Rebels Award celebrates children’s fiction which challenges stereotypes, promotes social justice and advocates for a more peaceful and fairer world.

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UKLA BOOK AWARD WINNERS 2020

The winners of the 2020 UKLA Book Awards have been announced.

UKLA award

The UKLA Book Awards are the only awards to be judged entirely by teachers and highlight texts that can ‘enhance all aspects of literacy learning’.

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WINNERS OF THE 2020 CARNEGIE AND KATE GREENAWAY MEDALS ANNOUNCED

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