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BfK No. 124 - September 2000

Cover Story
This issue’s cover illustration by Fangorn is taken from Brian Jacques’ Lord Brocktree (Hutchinson, 0 09 176877 2, £12.99), the thirteenth title in the internationally best-selling Redwall series. Salamandastron, the ancestral home of the Badger Lords, is under threat from Ungatt Trunn, an enemy whose power would seem to be absolute and whose evil knows no bounds. The only hope for survival is the badger Lord Brocktree who is drawn to the fortress by an undeniable sense of destiny. Brian Jacques' masterful storytelling as always spins a web of high adventure that will enthral the reader from the first page to the last. Thanks to Hutchinson Children’s Books for their help in producing this September cover.

BfK No. 124 Articles

Editorial - September 2000

News and comment from the Editor.

Imaginative Time Travel: The Greeks and Romans

Tony Spawforth on recent books about the ancient world.

Dads ’n’ Lads Reading Together

Anne Marley on an innovative way to encourage reading.

Authorgraph No.124: Robert Swindells

Robert Swindells interviewed by David Bennett.

“I Thought I’d Start with Something Easy”

Five authors who write for adults and children discuss the differences.

BfK Briefing - September 2000

News * Awards * Publications * Events * Letters to the Editor

Useful Organisations No.11: Centre for Language in Primary Education

Enjoys a national and international reputation for its work in language, literacy and assessment.

I Wish I’d Written... Cowboy Baby

Alan Durant chooses Sue Heap's Cowboy Baby.

Good Reads: All Hallows Catholic School

Reviews from pupils of All Hallows Catholic School, Farnham, Surrey.

Classic in Short No.23: Elidor

Brian Alderson on Alan Garner's Elidor.

Editor's Choice

Husherbye

John Burningham
(Jonathan Cape Ltd)
5

Sung all round the world to lull children to sleep, lullabies, as Marina Warner points out in her seminal study of the cultural ways we have to keep the bogies at bay (No Go the Bogeyman, Chatto & Windus), 'imply two...

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New Talent

The Lemonade Genie

Adrian Boote
(Orchard Books)
4

Liberally illustrated with Archbold's humorously wild and scratchy line drawings, this hilarious school story is pure slapstick from beginning to end. Colin Grumbly is a walking disaster zone and the least popular boy in class. When he pulls the...

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All Children's Book Reviews in BfK No. 124

  • Under 5s
  • Ages 5-8
  • Ages 8-10
  • Ages 10-14

Under 5s

  • Husherbye

    John Burningham
    5
  • Monster Postman

    Jonathan Allen
    5
  • Are you a Snail?

    Judy Allen
    Tudor Humphries
    4
  • Daisy and the Egg

    Jane Simmons
    4
  • I will not ever Never eat a tomato

    Lauren Child
    4
  • The Merchant Enticed by the Pearl of Great Price

    Mary Joslin
    4
  • You're All Animals

    Nicholas Allan
    4
  • Rock-a-Doodle-Do!

    Michael Foreman
    4
  • Rosie and Tortoise

    Margaret Wild
    4
  • Good Girl, Gracie Growler!

    Hilda Offen
    4
  • Flashing Fire Engines; Terrific Trains

    Tony Mitton
    Ant Parker
    3
  • Alone in the Woods

    Ian Beck
    3
  • Little Dragon

    Riske Lemmens
    3
  • A Treasury of Five-Minute Stories

    Fiona Waters
    3
  • Frog is a Hero; Frog and the Wide World; Frog is Frog; Frog and the Stranger

    Max Velthuijs
    3
  • Wacky Wild Animals

    Brian Moses
    3
  • Hey, Tabby Cat!; Here Comes Tabby Cat; Winnie Plays Ball; Winnie All Day Long; Monkey Business; Monkey Trouble

    2
  • Little Boo!; Little Suddenly!

    Colin McNaughton
    2
  • Going Shopping

    Jo Lodge
    2

Ages 5-8

  • When the World Began: Stories collected in Ethiopia

    Elizabeth Laird
    5
  • River Story

    Meredith Hooper
    5
  • Farm Boy

    Michael Morpurgo
    4
  • The Explorer's Book of Dinosaurs

    Dr Ian Jenkins
    4
  • Tommy Trouble

    Stephen Potts
    4
  • The Lemonade Genie

    Adrian Boote
    4
  • Someone I Like

    4
  • Stories from the Caribbean

    Petronella Breinburg
    4
  • Mama God, Papa God - A Caribbean Tale

    Richardo Keens-Douglas
    4
  • Big Brother, Little Sister

    Papa Oyibo
    4
  • Alison and the Bully Monsters

    Jac Jones
    4
  • Peas in a Pod

    Adèle Geras
    3
  • Celebrating; Carrying; Smiling; Eating

    Gwenyth Swain
    3
  • Horrid Henry's Nits

    Francesca Simon
    3
  • Rainy Day

    Emma Haughton
    2

Ages 8-10

  • The Dare Game

    Jacqueline Wilson
    4
  • Make a Book!

    Vivien Frank
    Deborah Jaffe
    4
  • Swine Lake

    James Marshall
    4
  • The Wonders of Maths; The Secrets of Science; Mysteries of the Human Body; How Things Work

    Barbara Allen
    Terry Deary
    3
  • William Shakespeare and the Globe

    Aliki
    3
  • Dig and Sow!; Splish! Splosh!

    Janice Lobb
    3
  • Amber's Secret

    Ann Pilling
    3
  • The Famous Adventures of Jack

    Berlie Doherty
    3
  • The Flood Tales

    Richard Monte
    3
  • Dad Alert!

    Malaika Rose Stanley
    3
  • Animal Crackers

    Narinder Dhami
    3
  • My Best Book of Fossils, Rocks and Minerals

    Chris Pellant
    2
  • Irish Legends

    Margaret Simpson
    2

Ages 10-14

  • Fire, Bed and Bone

    Henrietta Branford
    5
  • The Secret Life of Sally Tomato

    Jean Ure
    5
  • I am David

    Anne Holm
    5
  • Secrets in the Fire

    Henning Mankell
    5
  • Troy

    Adèle Geras
    5
  • Out of Nowhere

    Gerard Whelan
    4
  • A Twist in Time

    Jean Ure
    4
  • Dreaming in Black & White

    Reinhardt Jung
    4
  • The Children's Dinosaur Encyclopedia

    Jinny Johnson
    4
  • Greg

    Dirk Walbrecker
    4
  • The Girl Who Knew

    Sandra Glover
    4
  • Zillah and Me

    Helen Dunmore
    4
  • Hard Cash

    Kate Cann
    4
  • It's OK, I'm wearing really big knickers! (Further confessions of Georgia Nicolson)

    Louise Rennison
    4
  • Raspberries on the Yangtze

    Karen Wallace
    4
  • Hex: Ghosts

    Rhiannon Lassiter
    3
  • Toad Rage

    Morris Gleitzman
    3
  • The Holy Terrors

    Josephine Feeney
    3
  • Strays Like Us

    Richard Peck
    3
  • In Black and White

    Catherine R Johnson
    3
  • Getting Rid of Karenna

    Helena Pielichaty
    3
  • Ireland

    Terry Deary
    3
  • Suffering Scientists; Shocking Electricity

    Nick Arnold
    3
  • Wising Up

    E A Blare
    2
  • Youch! It Bites!

    Trevor Day
    2

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