January, Philip Pullman was granted the freedom of the city of Oxford. February, An award-winning children's book was banned from some US schools and libraries because it contains the word "scrotum"...
Moves, mergers, and all the rest of the industry news.
Longlists, shortlists and announcements of winners.
Madeleine l'Engle, best known for her A Wrinkle in Time, died on September 6th, aged 88.
Mary Hoffman's picture book, Princess Grace, was published by Frances Lincoln on October 4th.
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With the belief that children's books should only have happy endings and urging parents to boycott books that differ from this, The Happy Endings Foundation (THEF) sparked a controversial debate in the publishing world this autumn. However, all was not as it appeared to be. It seems that THEF was a very clever marketing ploy by Egmont publishers of authors such as Malorie Blackman and Julia Donaldson...
The phenomenon that is Harry Potter has blinded many readers to the predicament of children's books,their authors and their publishers. In a book market place that is ever more commercial and aggressive, children's books have to sell very fast and very cheaply - and then they fall off the edge of the world...
a thematic teenage fiction review by Gill Vickery
includes: Before I Die by Jenny Downham
and Ways to Live Forever by Sally Nichols
* This review has been re-run since it mysteriously vanished from an earlier edition of Armadillo.
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