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INTERVIEW: Malorie Blackman

21st October 201821st September 2020 Lucy Coats #NoughtsAndCrosses, Boys Don't Cry, children's books, Malorie Blackman, Noughts and Crosses, writing tips

Reading Time: 9 minutes Malorie Blackman, the former Children’s Laureate and champion of children’s literature, talks to Lucy Coats about her path to publication, the obstacles she faced as a writer of colour, and her top writing tips.

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Why Lauren Child's new Charlie and Lola book is all about numeracy [INTERVIEW]

10th April 2015 Lucy Coats interview, Lauren Child

Reading Time: 4 minutes Lauren Child speaks exclusively to Lucy Coats at the Bologna Book Fair about One Thing, her first Charlie and Lola book for five years – and why she hopes to do for numbers what she’s already done for language and literacy.

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Bologna Children's Book Fair Diary 2015

8th April 2015 Lucy Coats Bologna Book Fair, children's books

Reading Time: 17 minutes Lucy Coats, Contributing Editor to the Children’s Publishing issue of Publishing Talk Magazine, reports back from this year’s Bologna Children’s Book Fair with details of new and forthcoming titles – and catches up with Children’s Laureate and Publishing Talk cover girl Malorie Blackman.

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Bologna Children's Book Fair round-up 2014

3rd April 2014 Lucy Coats Bologna

Reading Time: 8 minutes Some called it the ‘Quietly Confident Fair’, some the ‘Smiley Fair’ – and one literary scout called it the ‘Fair of the Partial Submission’. There were no empty stands – and the Halls were buzzing. So what really made the 51st Bologna Children’s Book Fair tick? What was hot (and what was not)?

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Bologna Children's Book Fair 2013

3rd April 2013 Lucy Coats Bologna, Book Fairs, Children's

Reading Time: 5 minutes Did you miss this year’s Bologna Children’s Book Fair? Never fear – our intrepid Bologna Correspondent Lucy Coats shares all

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