Guardian Unlimited | Columnists | Lucy Mangan: The Famous Five - in their own words
Lucy Mangan - Famous Five speak out
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ACHUKA: December 2005 Archives
Guardian Unlimited Books | News | Famous Five tops poll
Result of poll to discover adults' favourite children's books:
People's choiceTop 10 books
1 Famous Five
2 Chronicles of Narnia
3 The Faraway Tree
4 The Hobbit
5 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
6 Black Beauty
7 Treasure Island
8 Biggles
9 Swallows and Amazons
10 Lord of the Rings
Guardian Unlimited Books | Review | A question of belief
How did CS Lewis make his selection of Christian material so attractive to children? John Mullan investigates
Guardian Unlimited Books | Review | The magician
Thirty years before Harry Potter, Ursula Le Guin was writing novels about a school for wizards. As well as good and evil, her fantasy worlds also address issues of race and gender
a feature in The Guardian by Maya Jaggi
Recommended
The Children's Poetry Archive is a satellite site attached to the main online Poetry Archive. It's a wonderful resource, containing scores of audiofiles.
Excellent feature in The New Yorker by Caitlin Flanagan. I'm grateful to Judy Zuckerman for bringing it to my attention. Very highly recommended!
...“Mary Poppins” advocates the kind of family life that Walt Disney had spent his career both chronicling and helping to foster on a national level: father at work, mother at home, children flourishing. It is tempting to imagine that in Travers he found a like-minded person, someone who embodied the virtues of conformity and traditionalism. Nothing could be further from the truth. Travers was a woman who never married, wore trousers when she felt like it, had a transformative and emotionally charged relationship with an older married man, and entered into a long-term live-in relationship with another woman...
Publishing News - News Page
Publishing News reports that:
MACMILLAN CHILDREN’S BOOKS will become the first children’s publisher to use webcasting as a communications tool when it launches I-News on 20 January...
Author Overcomes Dyslexia To Win Nestl?hildren's Book Prize
Sally Gardner, who is severely dyslexic and only learnt to read at the age of fourteen, has won this year's Nestle Children's Book Prize for her book I, Coriander, a fantasy tale of murder, magic and romance set in 17th century London.
The award was made yestefay, December 14th, at the British Library.
The complete list of winners is as follows:
5 years and under:
gold:
Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers, published by HarperCollins
silver:
The Dancing Tiger by Malachy Doyle, illustrated by Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher, published by Simon and Schuster
bronze:
Wolves by Emily Gravett, published by Macmillan
6-8 years:
gold:
The Whisperer by Nick Butterworth, published by HarperCollins
silver:
Corby Flood by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell, published by Doubleday
bronze:
Michael Rosen's Sad Book by Michael Rosen, illustrated by Quentin Blake, published by Walker Books
9-11 years:
gold:
I, Coriander by Sally Gardner, published by Orion
silver:
The Scarecrow and his Servant by Philip Pullman, published by Doubleday
bronze:
The Whispering Road by Livi Michael, published by Puffin
The adult judges for the 2005 prize were: Julia Eccleshare (chair), Channel 5's Kirsty Young, children's authors Mal Peet and Liz Pichon and journalist Helen Freeman. Children's votes decided the final placements.
CBBC Newsround | Win | Win: signed shortlisted books
The winners of the Nestl?hildren's Book Prize are announced at a big bash at the British Library on December 14th.
There's a chance to win signed copies of the shortlisted titles on this BBC Newsround page...
Guardian Unlimited Books | By genre | Even his teddy bear avoids him ...
He's young, he's extremely naughty and his books sell almost as fast as Harry Potter's. What makes Horrid Henry so fascinating for children? Dina Rabinovitch talks to his creator, Francesca Simon...
Highly Recommended feature
'Narnia represents everything that is most hateful about religion'
Guardian Unlimited Books | Review | Diary: Dec 3
This week's Guardian diary goes:
...To a corner of South Kensington that is forever France for the 8th Institut Fran?s youth festival of books, talks and films...
