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BfK No. 129 - July 2001

Cover Story
This issue’s cover is from Jane Hissey’s Old Bear’s All-Together Painting. Jane Hissey writes about her approach to illustration in this issue's Windows into Illustration. Thanks to Hutchinson Children’s Books for their help with this July cover.

BfK No. 129 Articles

Editorial - July 2001

News and comment from the Editor.
Babies and Books

Harriet Griffey explores the thinking behind giving books to babies.
Enjoying Books with Babies

Rosemary Stones on recent cloth, board and picture books.
The Great - and the Good

Elaine Moss on classic picture books.
Jack's First Books - July 2001

Gary McKeone on his baby son's reading diary.
Authorgraph No.129: Paul Jennings

Paul Jennings interviewed by George Hunt.
Stories to Live By

Nikki Gamble on short stories in the curriculum.
BfK Profile: Kate Cann

Val Randall on the novels of Kate Cann
Windows into Illustration: Jane Hissey

Jane Hissey on her recent picture book, Old Bear's All-Together Painting.
BfK Briefing - July 2001

News * Awards * Events * Publications * Letters to the Editor
Useful Organisations No.16: Polka Theatre

The UK's only permanent performance space for young audiences.
I Wish I'd Written... All the Things I See

Jamila Gavin chooses Jenny Joseph's All the Things I See.
Good Reads: Broomhill Junior School

Reviews from pupils of Broomhill Junior School, Nottingham.
Classics in Short No.28: Madeline

Brian Alderson on Ludwig Bemelmans' Madeline.

Editor's Choice

Georgie
Malachy Doyle
(Bloomsbury Publishing PLC)
4

This powerful novel begins dramatically with Georgie, unable to communicate in words, smearing the lavatory walls with his own shit. Told alternately in the first person by Georgie and Shannon, both boarders in some kind of therapeutic community...

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New Talent

The Beat Goes On
Adele Minchin
(Livewire Books for Teenagers)
4

In Britain until recently HIV/AIDS has been seen as a ‘gay disease’ despite the fact that worldwide it is predominantly a heterosexual disease. The percentage of gay and bisexual men infected in Britain has recently fallen while the percentage of...

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All Children's Book Reviews in BfK No. 129

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

Under 5s

  • Katie Morag and the Riddles; Katie Morag's Rainy Day Book
    Mairi Hedderwick
    4

  • Engines, Engines
    Lisa Bruce
    4

  • Please Don't Chat to the Bus Driver
    Shen Roddie
    4

  • Mamy Wata and the Monster
    Véronique Tadjo
    3

  • There's an Octopus Under my Bed!
    Dawn Apperley
    3

  • Down the Lane: Sights and Sounds through the Seasons
    Valerie Greeley
    3

  • Getting-to-Grandad Bears
    Hiawyn Oram
    3

  • Don't Wake the Baby!
    Dawn Apperley
    3

Ages 5-8

  • Little Turtle and the Song of the Sea
    Sheridan Cain
    4

  • Just you wait, Winona!
    Jenny Oldfield
    4

  • Irish Myths & Legends
    4

  • Uncle Billy Being Silly
    Michael Rosen
    4

  • Jack and the Beanstalk and The Three Wishes; Cinderella and The Sleeping Beauty; Hansel and Gretel and The Princess and the Pea; Rapunzel and Rumpelstilt-skin
    4

  • Red Riding Hood's Maths Adventure
    Lalie Harcourt
    Ricki Wortzman
    4

  • Rabbit's Wish
    Paul Stewart
    4

  • Pi-shu the little panda
    John Butler
    3

  • The Ice Cream Cowboys
    Adrian Boote
    3

  • Auntie Ayesha is coming to visit
    Abu Jamella
    3

  • Space Dog and the Space Egg; Space Dog Goes to Planet Purrgo
    Vivian French
    3

Ages 8-10

  • Deadly Diseases; Microscopic Monsters
    Nick Arnold
    4

  • Kensuke's Kingdom
    Michael Morpurgo
    4

  • Loudmouth Louis
    Anne Fine
    4

  • Wild Robert
    Diana Wynne Jones
    3

  • The Lion Children's Treasury of Classic Verse
    2

  • My Friend's a Werewolf
    Pete Johnson
    2

Ages 10-14

  • Bartlett and the City of Flames
    Odo Hirsch
    5

  • Billy Elliot
    Melvin Burgess
    5

  • People and Places; Resources and Conservation
    Michael Chinery
    5

  • Georgie
    Malachy Doyle
    4

  • Witch Hill
    Marcus Sedgwick
    4

  • Only Human; The Missing Link
    Kate Thompson
    4

  • Milo's Wolves
    Jenny Nimmo
    3

  • Pure Dead Magic
    Debi Gliori
    3

  • Queen of the Wolves
    Tanith Lee
    3

  • Jade's Story
    Helena Pielichaty
    3

  • My Mum and the Gruesome Twosome
    Meg Harper
    3

  • Riding the Storm
    Susan Holliday
    3

  • Slaves of the Mastery
    William Nicholson
    3

  • The Angel Factory
    Terence Blacker
    2

  • In the Money
    Helen Dunmore
    2

  • The Nazi Dagger Incident
    Terrance Dicks
    2

Ages 14+

  • The Beat Goes On
    Adele Minchin
    4

  • All Change; The Dogs; Joe's Story; The Wedding Present
    3

Books About Children's Books

  • Making gender work
    Judith Baxter
    4

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