Books for Keeps magazine have a brilliant new website - they've archived all the previous editions of the magazine and it will have author pages, news and forums for debating things.
It also has a whole spread about multi-cultural storytelling featuring Lulu and the multi-language CD. Log on and have a browse: http://www.booksforkeeps.co.uk/

Chicken House celebrated it's tenth birthday with a big breakfast in London on Friday last. Barry Cunningham gave a funny, inspirational and moving speech about Chicken House and Cornelia Funke read a passage from her new novel Reckless - not due for release until September 2010 - so we felt very privileged to be the first people in the world to hear it. Check it out on the Chicken House website.

I'm a big fan of Prospect magazine, and would recommend it to anyone, so I hope they don't mind that I scanned a cartoon from a recent issue which I thought my booky friends would enjoy: