ACHUKA: July 2006 Archives

Zephaniah's Keys

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Life and Health | Homes and gardens | What would you save if your house was burning down?

Benjoamin Zephaniah featured in The Observermagazine's 'What wouyld you save if your ouse was burningdown slot?'

A friend of mine did an exhibition where he asked artists to bring what they'd take if they had to leave immediately and go into exile. I took my front-door keys. It means you're going to come back some day.

He also revealed that he is a fan of Wendy Cope and has a lifesize cadboard cutout of her in hs lounge.

Boy Oh Boy

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Alex Rider: the proof that boys should be boys - Books - Times Online


As Stormbreaker, the first film about children’s favourite junior spy, opens in cinemas, Amanda Craig talks to his creator, Anthony Horowitz, about adventures, kissing and growing up... ...

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Culture Vulture Blog

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Gone, but not forgotten from Guardian Unlimited: Culture Vulture

Julia Eccleshare's entry in the Guardian's Culture Vulture blog regarding M Peet's absence from the Carnegie presentation ceremony.

The Only Difference

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Her word - Books - Times Online

I was writing a kids’ book recently, and it was not easier than adult fiction, or less demanding, or simpler to invent. The only difference I could find was that there has to be an inherent optimism...

Jeanette Winterson, on thewriting of Tanglewreck

Pitifully Oe-Dimensional

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Take a reality cheque - Books - Times Online

As an uncompromising war story wins the Carnegie, Anne Fine wonders if the spell of fantasy has broken for young readers... ...

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Mini Peet Profile

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'Fundamentalism is a form of illiteracy' - Books - Times Online

Nicolette Jones writes a short profile of Mal Peet, Csarnegiewinning author of Tamar

Splendidly Meticulous

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Guardian Unlimited Books | Review | The line of duty

Nicolotte Jones, best known as the Sunday Times children's books reviewer, has just published a biography of Samuel Plimsol:

"this splendid and meticulously researched biography" Geoffrey Morrhouse, The Guardian

The Plimsoll Sensation: The Great Campaign to Save Lives at Sea by Nicolette Jones will be Radio 4 Book of the Week next week, Mon-Fri 3-7 July, abridged and produced by Jane Marshall, and read by Paul Copley. (Five 15-minute extracts at 9.45 am and half past midnight. Listen Again is available through the BBC website next week and the week after.)

www.nicolettejones.com


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