ACHUKA: February 2006 Archives

Five Words

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Guardian Unlimited Books | By genre | Author of the month: Emily Gravett

Guardian Author of the Month - feature by Dina Rabinovitch

Emily Gravett's journey from bringing up a baby while living on a bus to producing prize-shortlisted books for children has been a long and eventful one. She talks to Dina Rabinovitch about her latest book, Orange Pear Apple Bear...

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New Site

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Stanley Bagshaw's website is still in progress, but it's online and ready to visit.

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Matthew Skelton

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A writer's fairy-tale beginning

Canadian feature on author of Endymion Spring:

Once upon a time, there was a shy, studious kid from Edmonton named Matthew Skelton...

The Bunny Man

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Guardian Unlimited Books | By genre | Bunny love

Highly-recommended profile of Dick Bruna...

Every morning Dick Bruna cycles along the canals of the pretty Dutch town of Utrecht to his studio; at exactly eight o'clock he stops for a cup of coffee at the same cafe, where a couple of Japanese girls will be waiting for him. At 78, with a silvery moustache and spectacles, he seems an unlikely target for groupies...

See also
www.miffy.com
http://www.dickbrunahuis.nl/

The Dane Who...

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Scotsman.com News - International - The children's author who ignited a worldwide protest

KARE Bluitgen has just received a death threat. "Wanted: dead or alive" said the placards showing the Dane's face borne by crowds in Thailand in the latest protest against the cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad. The news will not have come as a shock for Bluitgen, a children's author, who is well aware that he started the storm. It was his failed attempt to find artists to illustrate a book about the Prophet that prompted the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten to invite 12 illustrators to draw the Prophet as they saw him.

Recommended feature interview with Danish children's author...

Time Warner Bought

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Publishing News - News

Publishing News reports:

WITH ITS SURPRISE purchase of the New York and London operations of the Time Warner Book Group, Lagard?-owned Hachette Livre has become the world's third largest publisher (behind Pearson and Bertlesmann) and the largest in the UK, with turnover of £266m and a market share 2% ahead of Random House.

Chronic Fatigue

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Inside story: chronic fatigue syndrome - Health - Times Online

Rachel Anderson based her now novel, This Strange New Life, on her family's experience of CFS (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome). In this Times article she talks about how it has affected two of her children.

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