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BfK No. 174 - January 2009
Cover Story
This issue’s cover illustration by Helen Oxenbury is from Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes by Mem Fox (Walker, 978 1 4063 1592 9, £10.99 hbk). Helen Oxenbury writes about her illustration here. Thanks to Walker Books for their help with this January cover.
The longlists for the 2018 UKLA Book Awards have been announced. The ULKA awards are unique in that they are the only awards judged by working teachers. For UKLA, giving classroom practitioners the opportunity to read a number of new children’s books is as important as finding an overall winner.
Kate Wakeling has won the CLiPPA 2017 for her first collection for children, -180x269.jpg "M.G. Leonard")
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The winners of the 2017 UKLA Book Awards have been announced. The awards are the only ones to be judged entirely by teachers.
The Alliance of Radical Booksellers (ARB) has announced that the winners of this year’s Little Rebels Children’s Book Award are Andrea Beaty and David Roberts for their book, 
