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CHILDREN'S BOOK WEEK
To mark children's books week Front Row looks at new trends in publishing for young people. David Almond, Caroline Royds and Michael Rosen join Francine Stock to discuss how to get boys reading, whether we should import more ideas from Europe and should we welcome the entrance of celebrities like Madonna and Bono into the children's books market?
 Listen to the discussion here
CONTRIBUTOR'S RECOMMENDATIONS
Caroline Royds
1. You Don't Know Me by David Klass (Puffin)
2. Let's Get a Pup! by Bob Graham (Walker)
3. The Arthur Trilogy by Kevin Crossley-Holland (Orion)
David Almond
1. Flesh Market by Nicola Morgan
2. Queen Munch and Queen Nibble by Carol Ann Duffy and illustrated by Lydia Monks (Macmillan)
3. What the Birds See by Sonya Hartnett
Michael Rosen
1. Emil and the Detectives by Erich Kästner illustrated by Walter Trier (Red Fox)
2. Under the Wood and Over the Sea, A Collection of Caribbean Poems edited
by John Agard and Grace Nichols (Walker Books)
3. Mighty Fizz Chilla by Philip Ridley (Puffin)
OTHER BOOKS DISCUSSED
David Almond's The Fire Eaters and Skellig both published by Hodder children's books.
Hans Magnus Enzenberger Where Were You Robert? published by Puffin
Reinhardt Jung.
Bambert's Book of Missing Stories published by Egmont books.
For Your Interest:
Michael Rosen has four books coming out in the next few months:
Oww! A picture book about a pig with a thistle on his bum. 2nd in a sequence for 2-7 year olds (Collins).
Howler Narrated by a dog who discovers his female owner is having a baby about which he is not happy but he ends up commiserating with the dog next door and they have puppies. 2-7 year olds (Bloomsbury).
This Is Not My Nose A companion volume to Carrying the Elephant, Michael tells the story of his undiagnosed illness - a malfunctioning thyroid gland - which turned him into somebody he could hardly recognize: large, lethargic, ill at ease in the world. After 15 years it took just a simple course of drugs to turn him back into the real Mike Rosen. Painful, funny, scrupulously honest, these are poems that touch the heart but deal with the profoundest matters (Penguin).
Romeo and Juliet An edited version for children with linked information and illustrated by Jane Rae. January (Walker).
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