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BfK No. 13 - March 1982

Cover Story
Cover illustration and those on these pages from Football Crazy by Colin McNaughton, Piccolo £1.25 0 330 26747 7 (published April 1982). Also available in hardback from Heinemann, 434 94991 4, £4.95. We are grateful to Piccolo for their help in reproducing this illustration in full colour.

BfK No. 13 Articles

Editor’s Page – March 1982

News and comment from the Editor.

Learning to Read

'The way children are taught to read tells them what adults think literacy is.' Margaret Meek gives her views on Learning to Read.

Beginner's Guides

Reviews of books for aspiring artists and photographers

Focus on Football

Bill Boyle selects books for football-packed months ahead.

Authorgraph No.13 - Leon Garfield

Leon Garfield interviewed by Pat Triggs.

Teenage Fiction - John Branfield, Peggy Woodford & John Gordon

John Branfield, Peggy Woodford and John Gordon. Chris Kloet recommends three British writers of teenage fiction.

Lifeline Library - Part 1: The Picture Books

Elaine Moss introduces her new five-part series and chooses Picture Books.

Needing to know - NOW

Anne Griffiths, who believes it's never too soon to start, shares her approach to choosing and using information books with Infants.

Sound & Vision - March 1982

News about books on television and in the cinema.

HOW TO... make a Book Fair last all Year

Ideas and advice from Wingfield School.

Sales Point

The page for those who sell books in schools.

BfK News - March 1982

News about what's happening in the children's book world.

All Children's Book Reviews in BfK No. 13

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

Under 5s

  • Mog and the Baby

    Judith Kerr
  • Jafta ¦ Jafta - My Mother

    Hugh Lewin
    Lisa Kopper
  • Meg's Veg

    Helen Nicoll
    Jan Pieńkowski
  • Norton's night-time

    Jane Breskin Zalben
  • The Bears' Bazaar

    Michelle Cartlidge
  • Brian Wildsmith's ABC

    Brian Wildsmith

Ages 5-8

  • Johnny's Dragon

    Irina Korschunow
  • The Mouse and the Egg

    William Mayne
  • The Wild Washerwomen

    John Yeoman
  • I Don't Feel Well!

    Franz Brandenberg
  • New Dog Next Door

    Elizabeth Bridgman

Ages 8-10

  • The Pochetto Coat

    Ted Greenwood
  • The Super-roo of Mungalongaloo

    Osmar White
  • Wally

    Judie Wolkoff
  • More Stories for Seven-Year-Olds ¦ Stories for Tens and Over

  • Daggie Dogfoot

    Dick King-Smith
  • Here Comes Charlie Moon

    Shirley Hughes
  • The House that Moved

    David Rees

Ages 10-14

  • Falcon Island

    Joan Ambrose
  • My Pal Spadger

    Bill Naughton
  • The Stars are Upside Down

    Gabriel Alington
  • The Fox at Drummer's Darkness

    Joyce Stranger
  • Ghosts and Shadows

    Dorothy Edwards
  • Which Witch?

    Eva Ibbotson
  • A Kind of Wild Justice

    Bernard Ashley
  • Superfudge

    Judy Blume

Ages 14+

  • A Quest for Orion

    Rosemary Harris
  • A Sense of Shame

    Jan Needle
  • Hey, Dollface

    Deborah Hautzig
  • A Long Way to Go

    Marjorie Darke
  • The Bewitching of Alison Allbright

    A D Langholm
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