UK Children’s Book Magazine Books for Keeps has revamped its website and now includes a complete archive, going back to Issue No. 1 in March 1980, which you can browse either via past issues or the Authors & Illustrators Index, or by using the searchable article or reviews databases. There’s also a discussion forum…
Read Rosemary Stones’ editorial for this month’s issue for a proper introduction… in which she quite rightly proclaims she has “no shame in blowing the Books for Keeps trumpet”!
And then read this thought-provoking article: Multi-lingual Storytelling by Anna McQuinn, which discusses storytelling with children with different home languages.
The cover I’ve borrowed to illustrate this post features one of my favorite reads from 2008, Broken Glass by Sally Grindley…