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BfK No. 110 - May 1998

Cover Story
This issue's cover is from Emma Chichester Clark's picture book, More! Emma Chichester Clark is interviewed by Quentin Blake. Thanks to Andersen Children's Books for their help in producing this cover.

BfK No. 110 Articles

Editorial - May 1998

News and comment from the Editor.
Parlez-Vous Picture Book?

Elaine Moss discusses the Spring crop of picture books.
Will the Real Drawings Please Stand Up

Lisa Kopper looks at photo-techniques in illustration.
Will There Be Any Time Left For Reading?

Jeff Hynds on The Literacy Hour.
BfK Briefing – May 1998

News * Best Seller Charts * Awards * Events * Publications * Letters to the Editor
I Wish I’d Written… Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

Nina Bawden chooses Robert C O'Brien's Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH.
Authorgraph No.110: Emma Chichester Clark

Emma Chichester Clark interviewed by Quentin Blake.
Good Reads: Chase Lane GM Primary School, Newfield School, and Juliana Oliver

Reviews from pupils of Chase Lane GM Primary School, Essex, Newfield School, Sheffield, and Juliana Oliver, London.
Classics in Short No.9: The Tale of Peter Rabbit

Helen Levene on Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Peter Rabbit.

Editor's Choice

Voices in the Park
Anthony Browne
(Doubleday)
5

Twenty years ago Browne's picture book, A Walk in the Park, broke new ground with its depiction of class difference. In this extraordinary new picture book he revisits the park and presents the same events but this time from the different...

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New Talent

The Arctic Fox
Mary Ellis
(HarperCollinsChildren'sBooks)
4

Alex and her explorer father travel to the Arctic to return an Arctic fox to its habitat. Alex makes friends with an Inuit boy, Canny, whose father is thought to have died in the Arctic wastes. However, the Inuit Shaman recognises a link between...

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All Children's Book Reviews in BfK No. 110

  • Under 5s
  • Ages 5-8
  • Ages 8-10
  • Ages 10-14
  • Books About Children's Books

Under 5s

  • The Wolf is Coming!
    Elizabeth MacDonald
    5

  • When I Was Little Like You
    Jill Paton Walsh
    5

  • Humpty Dumpty and Other Rhymes; Little Boy Blue and Other Rhymes; Wee Willie Winkie and Other Rhymes; Pussy-Cat Pussy-Cat and Other Rhymes
    5

  • Beaten by a Balloon
    Margaret Mahy
    4

  • Nonsense Nursery Rhymes
    Richard Edwards
    4

  • The Long, Blue Blazer
    Jeanne Willis
    4

  • The Trouble With Elephants
    Chris Riddell
    3

  • Daddy Calls Me Man
    Angela Johnson
    3

  • Fergus and Marigold
    Tony Maddox
    3

  • Playtime Rhymes for the Very Young
    3

  • "More More More," said the Baby
    Vera B Williams
    3

Ages 5-8

  • Since Dad Left
    Caroline Binch
    5

  • Voices in the Park
    Anthony Browne
    5

  • Banana; Sweetcorn; Honey; Rice
    Pam Robson
    4

  • Stanley Bagshaw and the Frantic Film Fiasco
    Bob Wilson
    4

  • Angel and the Box of Time
    Michael Foreman
    4

  • Jamil's Clever Cat
    Fiona French
    Dick Newby
    4

  • Funky Phantoms ¦ Star Spooks
    Karen Wallace
    3

  • Moses and the Pharaoh
    Noura Durkee
    3

  • Joseph
    Brian Wildsmith
    3

  • Harry the Honkerzoid
    Brendan Hook
    3

  • Smasher
    Dick King-Smith
    3

  • Tigress; Whistling Thorn; Antarctica; Rainforest; Jaguar
    Helen Cowcher
    3

  • Badger's Bad Mood
    Hiawyn Oram
    3

  • Alberta the Abominable Snowthing; Trouble for Alberta
    Tessa Krailing
    2

  • Snakes and Other Reptiles in Action; How Things Fly
    Tanner Ottley Gay
    1

Ages 8-10

  • More Jessame Stories
    Julia Jarman
    5

  • The Arctic Fox
    Mary Ellis
    4

  • Toots Upside Down Again
    Carol Hughes
    4

  • The Sea Piper
    Helen Cresswell
    4

  • The Merman
    Dick King-Smith
    4

  • Someone's Watching, Someone's Waiting
    Jamila Gavin
    4

  • Marco Polo: A Journey Through China; Magellan: A Voyage Around the World
    Fiona Macdonald
    3

  • History: The Really Interesting Bits
    Brian Delf
    Richard Platt
    3

  • Mehmet the Conqueror; Cleopatra: Queen of Kings; Razia: Warrior Queen of India
    Emma Clark
    3

  • Don't Look at Me in that Tone of Voice!; Aliens Stole My Underpants
    Brian Moses
    3

  • Red Eyes at Night
    Michael Morpurgo
    3

  • Roald Dahl
    Andrea Shavick
    2

Ages 10-14

  • Midnight Fair
    William Mayne
    5

  • Fire, Bed and Bone
    Henrietta Branford
    5

  • The Ultimate 3-D Pop-Up Art Book
    Ron Van Der Meer
    Frank Whitford
    5

  • The Demon Headmaster Takes Over
    Gillian Cross
    5

  • The Transfer
    Terence Blacker
    5

  • Cuddy
    William Mayne
    4

  • How Could You Do This To Me, Mum?
    Rosie Rushton
    4

  • Nightjohn; Sarny
    Gary Paulsen
    4

  • The Listmaker
    Robin Klein
    4

  • Drug Abuse?; A Green World?
    Emma Haughton
    3

  • Under Different Stars
    Chloë Rayban
    3

  • Nuclear Power
    Felix Pirani
    3

  • The World of Art
    Jacqueline Dineen
    Nicola Barber
    3

  • Microlife
    David Burnie
    3

  • Stephen Biesty's Incredible Everything
    Richard Platt
    3

  • Egyptian Mummies - a Pop-up Book
    Milbry Polk
    3

  • The Puffin Book of Classic Verse
    Raymond Wilson
    3

  • War Dog
    Martin Booth
    3

  • Bad Cats Bad
    Roger McGough
    3

  • Norse Myths & Legends
    Philip Ardagh
    3

  • Inside Story: Extraordinary Buildings Unfolded
    Nicola Baxter
    2

  • Frozen Out
    Carlo Gébler
    2

  • In the Shadow of the Gun ¦ Kirsten
    Elspeth Cameron
    2

Books About Children's Books

  • Reading Under Control
    4

  • Children's Book Publishing in Britain Since 1945
    2

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