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BfK No. 115 - March 1999

Cover Story
This issue’s cover is from The Lion Treasury of Children’s Prayers compiled by Susan Cuthbert and illustrated by Alison Jay. Thanks to Lion Publishing for their help in producing this March cover.

BfK No. 115 Articles

Editorial – March 1999

News and comment from the Editor.
Biblical Books for Children

 Ralph Gower on books to promote religious literacy.
Is Computer Art Creative?

Shoo Rayner on illustrations and the use of computers.
Authorgraph No.115: Jacqueline Wilson

Jacqueline Wilson interviewed by Julia Eccleshare.
A Lasting Impact: Jacqueline Wilson in School

Andrew Kidd on a very special school visit.
Books Away!

Nicholas Tucker on schemes which bring children, books and parents together.
Between God and Mammon?

 Rosemary Stones on the children's list at Lion, a Christian publishing house, and on this issue's cover, The Lion Treasury of Children's Prayers.
BfK Briefing – March 1999

News * Awards * Obituary * Events * Publications * Best Seller Charts * Letters to the Editor
Useful Organisations No.5: REACH (National Advice Centre for Children with Reading Difficulties)

National charity working with children who have difficulty with reading, writing and language.
I Wish I’d Written… Mine

Berlie Doherty chooses Caroline Pitcher's Mine.
Good Reads: Selby High School

Reviews from pupils of Selby High School, North Yorkshire.
Classics in Short No.14: Peter Pan

Brian Alderson on J M Barrie's Peter Pan.

Editor's Choice

Hansel and Gretal¦ The Goose Girl¦ Grey Wolf, Prince Jack and the Firebird¦ The Three Heads in the Well¦ The Six Swan Brothers¦ The Snow Queen¦ The Seal Hunter¦ Cockadoodle-doo, Mr Sultana!¦ Mossycoat¦ Rumpelstiltskin¦ Rapunzel¦ The Twelve Dancing Princes
Henrietta Branford
(Scholastic)
5

Almost all the distinguished retellers (contemporary writers or poets to a person) do more than justice to their respective story in this new series of traditional tales. Garner's Grey Wolf, Prince Jack and the Firebird, Cross's...

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New Talent

Dark Thread
Pauline Chandler
(Oxford University Press)
4

Kate and her mother are artisan weavers with a workshop in a renovated mill. When her mother is killed in a road accident, Kate thinks she is responsible - after all, they had just been arguing and Kate had started it. The mill seems full of...

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All Children's Book Reviews in BfK No. 115

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

Under 5s

  • Chicken Licken
    Michael Foreman
    5

  • A First Picture Book of Nursery Rhymes
    5

  • Mrs Jolly's Brolly
    Dick King-Smith
    4

  • The Macmillan Treasury of Nursery Rhymes and Poems
    4

  • A Little Bit of Winter
    Paul Stewart
    4

  • Night Night Sleep Tight
    4

  • Best of Friends
    Shen Roddie
    4

  • The Puffin Baby and Toddler Treasury
    4

  • I'm Too Busy
    Helen Stephens
    3

  • Noisy Nora
    Rosemary Wells
    3

  • Cat and Mouse
    Tomek Bogacki
    3

  • Tell Me Something Happy Before I Go to Sleep
    Joyce Dunbar
    3

  • My Presents
    Rod Campbell
    3

Ages 5-8

  • Science School
    Mick Manning
    Brita Granström
    5

  • Space Shuttle
    Mark Bergin
    5

  • Think About Having a Learning Disability; Think About Being in A Wheelchair; Think About Being Blind; Think About Being Deaf
    Margaret Flynn
    Peter Flynn
    5

  • What Happens to Your Food?
    Alastair Smith
    5

  • Crackers
    Elizabeth Laird
    5

  • Friends and Brothers
    Dick King-Smith
    5

  • The Crystal Pool: Myths and Legends of the World
    Geraldine McCaughrean
    5

  • The Frog Prince (or Iron Henry)
    Brothers Grimm
    5

  • Hansel and Gretal¦ The Goose Girl¦ Grey Wolf, Prince Jack and the Firebird¦ The Three Heads in the Well¦ The Six Swan Brothers¦ The Snow Queen¦ The Seal Hunter¦ Cockadoodle-doo, Mr Sultana!¦ Mossycoat¦ Rumpelstiltskin¦ Rapunzel¦ The Twelve Dancing Princes
    Henrietta Branford
    5

  • Lucy's Quarrel
    Jennifer Northway
    5

  • Mistress Masham's Repose
    T H White
    4

  • The Bear who Stood on his Head
    W J Corbett
    4

  • Loudmouth Louis
    Anne Fine
    4

  • Squids will be Squids
    Jon Scieszka
    4

  • Emeka's Gift
    Ifeoma Onyefulu
    4

  • Lucinda Snodd-Gibbon's Scottish Collection
    Richard Kidd
    4

  • Princess Camomile Gets Her Way
    Hiawyn Oram
    4

  • A Night on the Tiles
    Bruce Ingman
    4

  • Lost Property
    Bruce Ingman
    4

  • Fruit and Nutcase
    Jean Ure
    3

  • Read Me: A Poem a Day for the National Year of Reading
    Gaby Morgan
    3

  • Journeys through Dreamtime: Stories from the World's Religions
    Anita Ganeri
    3

  • Khumalo's Blanket
    Iain Macdonald
    3

  • The Pony Picnic
    Christine Pullein-Thompson
    3

  • The Secret Weapon
    Nicci Crowther
    3

  • Poems about you and me
    3

  • Bad Habits!
    Babette Cole
    3

  • Mother and Child Treasury
    Shirley Hughes
    3

  • A Baby for Grace
    Ian Whybrow
    3

  • Arthur's Computer Disaster
    Marc Brown
    2

  • A Dog's Life
    Sara Fanelli
    2

Ages 8-10

  • Friends and Brothers
    Dick King-Smith
    5

Ages 10-14

  • The Usborne Complete Book of the Microscope
    Kirsteen Rogers
    5

  • Two Barks
    Julie O'Callaghan
    5

  • The Sailing Ship Tree
    Berlie Doherty
    5

  • Bumface
    Morris Gleitzman
    5

  • Off the Road
    Nina Bawden
    5

  • The Drover's Boy
    Ted Egan
    5

  • silent snow, secret snow
    Adèle Geras
    4

  • Soldier's Heart
    Gary Paulsen
    4

  • Dark Thread
    Pauline Chandler
    4

  • Vicious Veg
    Nick Arnold
    4

  • A Street Through Time
    Dr Anne Millard
    4

  • The Fear Not Angel
    Walter Wangerin Jr
    4

  • Word Whirls and other shape poems
    4

  • Stand Up for Your Rights
    3

  • Dolphin Luck
    Hilary McKay
    3

  • A Boy Like That; Lovesick; Roy Kane TV Detective; Thirteen Candles
    Tony Langham
    3

  • Humanzee
    Susan Gates
    0

Books About Children's Books

  • The RIF Family Guide to Encouraging Young Readers
    3

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