SAMPLE ARTICLES

• Carousel: issue 40 Autumn 2008


• Carousel: issue 39 Summer 2008
• Carousel: issue 38 Spring 2008
  
• Carousel: issue 37 Autumn 2007
  
• Carousel: issue 36 Summer 2007
  
• Carousel: issue 35 Spring 2007
  
• Carousel: issue 34 Autumn 2006
  
• Carousel: issue 33 Summer 2006
  
• Carousel: issue 31
  
• Summer 2004
  
• Summer 2003
  
• Spring 2003

Sample articles from Carousel issue 40: Autumn 2008

Helen Craig: Family Matters

Mo Willems: Making it ‘Serious in Funny' - When he was a young man, Mo Willems wrote a letter to Charles Schulz, the creator of the Peanuts comic strip. Mr Schulz, he told the great cartoonist, I want your job when you die . . .

Poetry Reviews

We Are ALL Born FREE
Judith Escreet, Art Director at Frances Lincoln, writes: All people are born free and equal are the opening words of Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations

The Mouldiwarp and Me: Pat Jenkins, a former teacher and reviewer for Carousel, shares her childhood reading experiences.

Books for older readers - reviews

Reads 4 Teens - reviews

Sample articles from Carousel issue 39: Summer 2008

Polly Dunbar: Painting & Puppets - Winner of the Younger Children’s section in the 2008 Red House Children’s Book Award. By Chris Stephenson

Museum of Childhood
A great destination for a family or school visit
By Pat Thomson

Shakespeare and his world
By Enid Stephenson

Non Fiction reviews

Picture Book reviews

First Steps reviews

Sample articles from Carousel issue 38: Spring 2008

To a Secret Garden via a Cat and a Toad
by David Blanch

Return to the Little House
by Pat Thompson

Where Readers Rule…
Chris Powling on writing for Barrington Stoke - voted 2007’s “Children’s Publisher of the Year”.

PEOPLE BEHIND THE BOOK:
The Editor: Yvonne Hooker

Teachers as Readers
Building Communities of Readers

Sample articles from Carousel issue 37: Autumn 2007

Editorial

Children Deserve The Best Television

The Background and Inspirations for APACHE
by Tanya Landman

Sample articles from Carousel issue 36: Summer 2007

Michael Rosen's editorial

Picture Book Reviews

Rosemary Sutcliff

The Carnegie Medal

Berlie Doherty: Finding Out What Happens

Raiders from the Sea - the writing of Carnegie Medal winner, The Stronghold, by Mollie Hunter

Reads4Teens

Sample articles from Carousel issue 35: Spring 2007

Making Early Learning Fun
Rod Campbell

Whatever Happened to Children's Poetry?

Getting Things Right
Nigel Hinton

Children in World War Two
- a personal choice of books

The Time Travelling Cat
- Julia Jarman talks about her series

Jonathan Stroud's Bartimaeus Trilogy

Sample articles from Carousel issue 34: Autumn 2006

• Issue 34 Cover


• Picture Books for Everyone - page 8
• Picture Books for Everyone - page 9


• The Designer Ben Norland


• Beverley Naidoo - Daring to Tell
  by Chris Stephenson
  


• Going Solo - Reviews


• Following in The Highwayman's Footsteps
  - Nicola Morgan


• Chris Powling’s Readers Who Don’t ... And How to Persuade Them Otherwise


• The Making of 'The Making of Me'
  by Lindy McKinnel

Sample articles from Carousel issue 33: Summer 2006

• Carousel remembers Jan Mark


• Still Invisible
  - Jan Ray explains why she is support In the Picture


• What's in the Book?
  - the 17 million books of Janet and Allan Ahlberg


• Toxic Childhood
  How contemporary culture is damaging the next generation . . . and what we can do about it.


• The Proofreader: Wendy Janes

Sample articles from Carousel issue 31

• Books for Babes


• Master of the Haunted House by Jan Pienkowski


• "What is the use of a book", thought Alice "without pictures". Chris Stephenson discusses picture books and the status of illustrators.


• Hans Christian Andersen begins the story which has lasted 200 years


• Outside in: Children's Books in translation


• The Story Museum is proposed for Oxford

Sample articles from the Summer 2004 issue

• First Steps - book reviews


• John Agard: a-rolling over the water by Nicholas Tucker


• Emma Chichester Clark: The 'Literary' Illustrator and the Dictionary by Chris Stephenson


• Andrew Delahunty: Lexicographer: a writer or compiler of a dictionary (OED): a writer or compiler of a dictionary (OED) by Pat Thomson


• Nina Bawden: Dignity, Tenacity, Charm by Chris Stephenson


• Fluent - book reviews

Sample article from the Summer 2003 issue

• Meeting Mr Wegner
  by Pat Thomson

Sample articles from the Spring 2003 issue

• The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art
  by Chris Stephenson


• Magic Children: Haiti
  by Daniel Morden


• Truly Professional Posy Simmonds
  by Chris Stephenson


• The Small Shiny Details:
  Justin Somper talks to award-winning "newcomer" Sonya Hartnett


• Jehan Helou of the Tamer Institute, Ramallah, Palestine talks with author Elizabeth Laird


• Simon Bartram by Mike Simkin