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BfK No. 111 - July 1998

Cover Story
This issue’s cover is from The Hutchinson Treasury of Children’s Poetry (cover illustration by Peter Weevers). Edited by Alison Sage (who also edited The Hutchinson Treasury of Children’s Literature), this sumptuous anthology is loosely divided into four sections corresponding to age starting with nursery rhymes and first poems through to poems for older children and classic poetry. Poems from such modern poets as Roger McGough, Ted Hughes, Wendy Cope and Maya Angelou sit alongside poems by Longfellow, Robert Louis Stevenson, Shelley and Shakespeare. The anthology is illustrated in full colour and black and white. Newly commissioned illustrations from, for example, Quentin Blake, Shirley Hughes and Nicola Bayley are included alongside illustrations by Randolph Caldecott, Jessie Willcox Smith and Kate Greenaway. With such a comprehensive range of poems for 2-11 year olds and upwards, this is a wonderful family book.

BfK No. 111 Articles

Editorial – July 1998

News and comment from the Editor.
Keep on Walking!

Julia Eccleshare on 30 years of Rosie's Walk.
Poetry Power

Helen Taylor assesses recent poetry publishing for children.
Breaking Down the Barriers

Kevin Berry on first languages and poetry.
King of the Sky

Gwynneth Bailey on using poetry for The Literacy Hour.
Finding Their Own Voices

John Lynch on children writing poetry.
Authorgraph No.111: Benjamin Zephaniah

Benjamin Zephaniah interviewed by Errol Lloyd.
BfK Briefing – July 1998

News * Awards * Best Seller Chart * Letters to the Editor

Useful Organisations No.1: The Poetry Society

Nurturing and promoting poets and poetry.
What Should Win the Carnegie and Greenaway Medals?

BfK asks children's literature experts and young readers to nominate their winners.
Good Reads: Havelock Primary School

Reviews from pupils of Havelock Primary School, Southall, Middlesex.
I Wish I’d Written… Harry and the Wrinklies

Anne Fine chooses Alan Temperley's Harry and the Wrinklies.
Classics in Short No.10: A Child’s Garden of Verses

Helen Levene on Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses.

Editor's Choice

Witnesses to War
Michael Leapman
(Puffin)
5

Anne Frank is one of eight young people featured in this collection of war-time biographies whose lives were irrevocably disrupted by Nazism. Anne Frank was to die in Bergen-Belsen, and because we feel we know her so well via her diary, come to...

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New Talent

Skellig
David Almond
(Hodder Children's Books)
5

A move to a new house coincides for Michael with the anguish of bearing his new baby sister's medical problems. Will she live? As the baby fights for her life in a hospital incubator, Michael learns, with the help of his new friend Mina, to look...

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All Children's Book Reviews in BfK No. 111

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

Under 5s

  • Big Silver Spaceship
    Ken Wilson-Max
    5

  • The Long Nosed Pig
    Keith Faulkner
    5

  • Our Puppy's Holiday
    Ruth Brown
    4

  • Baby Duck and the New Eyeglasses
    Amy Hest
    4

  • Pippo Gets Lost; Tom and Pippo's Day; Tom and Pippo Go for a Walk; Tom and Pippo Read a Story
    Helen Oxenbury
    4

  • A Child's Treasury of Irish Rhymes
    Alice Taylor
    3

  • Daisy is a Mummy
    Lisa Kopper
    3

  • Stellaluna
    Janell Cannon
    2

Ages 5-8

  • Whistling Jack
    Linda Newbery
    5

  • Clown
    Quentin Blake
    5

  • Boys Are Us; Dear Alien
    Shoo Rayner
    4

  • Harry on Holiday; A Hiccup on the High Seas; Rattle and Hum in Double Trouble; Bing Bang Boogie, It's a Boy Scout
    Chris Powling
    Scoular Anderson
    4

  • Forest Tales from Far and Wide; Farmyard Tales from Far and Wide
    4

  • Sound City
    Sarah Hayes
    4

  • How to Live Forever
    Colin Thompson
    4

  • Scratch 'n' Sniff
    Gus Clarke
    4

  • Thud!
    Nick Butterworth
    4

  • Children Don't Divorce; No More Bullying!
    Rosemary Stones
    4

  • Gita and Goldie; Timmy and Tiger
    Mary Hooper
    3

  • "Og Fo" says the Space Bug; Pets Just Want to Have Fun!; "I don't Like Space Glop"; "Do I Look Funny to You?"
    Nicola Matthews
    3

  • Off to School
    3

  • Winnie the Witch; The Fish Who Could Wish
    Valerie Thomas
    3

  • Dad's Dodgy Lodger; Talking Pictures
    Philip Wooderson
    Dee Shulman
    2

Ages 8-10

  • My Grandfather is a Magician
    Ifeoma Onyefulu
    5

  • Robln of Sherwood
    Michael Morpurgo
    5

  • Willa and Old Miss Annie
    Berlie Doherty
    5

  • A Tudor Warship; A Victorian Mill
    Brian Moses
    4

  • Carmine's Story
    Arlene Schulman
    4

  • Tom's Private War
    Robert Leeson
    4

  • How Castles Were Built
    Peter Hicks
    3

  • Ruby Red: Tales from the Weedwater
    Henrietta Branford
    3

Ages 10-14

  • My Left Foot
    Christy Brown
    5

  • MapHead 2
    Lesley Howarth
    5

  • Skellig
    David Almond
    5

  • Witnesses to War
    Michael Leapman
    5

  • Dealing with Eating Disorders; Sex; Periods
    Kate Haycock
    4

  • Religion; Women's Rights
    Anita Ganeri
    4

  • Child of the May
    Theresa Tomlinson
    4

  • Clues from Names
    Gillian Clegg
    4

  • Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
    J K Rowling
    4

  • Love Lessons
    David Belbin
    3

  • Family Secrets
    Brian Keaney
    3

  • Crisis in Central Africa; The Berlin Wall
    Charles Freeman
    3

  • The Element Illustrated Encyclopedia of Mind, Body, Spirit and Earth; The Unexplained Psychic Powers
    Joanna Crosse
    2

  • The Empty Frame
    Ann Pilling
    2

  • Abomination
    Robert Swindells
    2

Books About Children's Books

  • A Year with Poetry
    5

  • From the Garden to the Street: Three Hundred Years of Poetry for Children
    Morag Styles
    5

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