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BfK No. 135 - July 2002

Cover Story
This issue's cover illustration by Nick Sharratt is from Jeremy's Strong's Krazy Kow Saves the World - Well, Almost. Jeremy Strong is interviewed by Jeff Hynds. Thanks to Puffin for their help with this July cover.

BfK No. 135 Articles

Editorial - July 2002

News and comment from the Editor.

Popping Up All Over

Geoff Fox on movable books.

The Art of Looking at Things

Joanna Carey on new picture books.

Hal’s Reading Diary - July 2002

Roger Mills on his son Hal at 16 months.

The Wicor Ten

Sue Leach on an innovative reading project.

BfK Profile: Helen Flint

Lois Keith on the novels of Helen Flint.

Adult Books Teenagers Read

Julia Eccleshare on the books that attract teens.

Authorgraph No.135: Jeremy Strong

Jeremy Strong interviewed by Jeff Hynds.

BfK Briefing - July 2002

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

Useful Organisations No.22: Healthy Books

Books offering information and reassurance with health and emotional problems.

I Wish I’d Written... Rufugee Boy

Michael Rosen chooses Benjamin Zephaniah's Refugee Boy.

Good Reads: Saint Stithian's Girls’ Preparatory School

Reviews from pupils of Saint Stithian's Girls' Preparatory School, Randburg, South Africa.

Classics in Short No.34: Molesworth

Brian Alderson on Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle's Molesworth.

Editor's Choice

The Boy Who Lost His Face

Louis Sachar
(Bloomsbury Publishing PLC)
5

David reluctantly takes part in stealing an old lady's cane in an ugly incident in which she falls off her chair showing her knickers and has lemonade tipped over her head. As David struggles with peer group pressure and bullying, this painful...

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New Talent

Cold Tom

Sally Prue
(Oxford University Press)
5

One of the tribe who live on the common, Tom fends cautiously for himself, ever watchful in case his growing clumsiness leads to his expulsion or worse. Meanwhile the houses of the much-feared demons have edged closer. These alien worlds come...

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All Children's Book Reviews in BfK No. 135

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

Under 5s

  • Do Like a Duck Does!

    Judy Hindley
    5
  • Frog

    Susan Cooper
    4
  • Room for One More

    Ingrid Schubert
    Dieter Schubert
    4
  • Wet Pebbles Under Our Feet

    Manya Stojic
    4
  • Sleepy Pendoodle

    Malachy Doyle
    3
  • Flop-Ear is Brave!

    Guido Van Genechten
    3
  • Wiggle My Toes and other action rhymes

    Kaye Umansky
    3

Ages 5-8

  • This Amazing World

    5
  • The Birdwatchers

    Simon James
    5
  • Start with Art: Animals

    Sue Lacey
    3
  • Seasons Turning ¦ High Tide, Low Tide ¦ Story of a Storm ¦ When the Sun Goes Down ¦ Watch Out! Builders About!

    Mick Manning
    Brita Granström
    3
  • Nice One, Smithy

    Paul May
    3
  • Frankenstella and the Video Shop Monster

    Herbie Brennan
    3
  • Tumbler

    Liz Filleul
    3
  • Finn Family Moomintroll

    Tove Jansson
    2
  • Patrick: Saint of Ireland

    Joyce Denham
    2
  • A Book of Letters

    Ken Wilson-Max
    2

Ages 8-10

  • Archer's Goon

    Diana Wynne Jones
    4
  • The Wool Pack

    Cynthia Harnett
    4
  • When Marnie Was There

    Joan G Robinson
    3
  • Midnight for Charlie Bone

    Jenny Nimmo
    3
  • Shrinking Violet

    Jean Ure
    3
  • Big George

    Eric Pringle
    3
  • Sir Rupert and Rosie Gusset in Deadly Danger

    Jeremy Strong
    3
  • Danger by Moonlight

    Jamila Gavin
    3
  • Great Expectations

    3
  • The Colour of My Dreams

    Peter Dixon
    3
  • The Sleeping Sword

    Michael Morpurgo
    3
  • Quirky Tales

    Paul Jennings
    2

Ages 10-14

  • Food Supply: Our Impact on the Planet; An Overcrowded World? Our Impact on the Planet

    Rob Bowden
    5
  • The Blitz; Evacuation; Rationing; Women's War

    Stewart Ross
    5
  • The Boy Who Lost His Face

    Louis Sachar
    5
  • Cold Tom

    Sally Prue
    5
  • The Edge

    Alan Gibbons
    5
  • Burning Issy

    Melvin Burgess
    5
  • Tuck Everlasting

    Natalie Babbitt
    5
  • The Great Depression; The Civil Rights Movement

    R G Grant
    4
  • Why Do People Fight Wars?; Why Do People Harm Animals?

    Ali Brownlie
    Chris Mason
    4
  • Cut

    Patricia McCormick
    4
  • Shopaholic

    Judy Waite
    4
  • Pawnee Warrior

    Chris D'Lacey
    4
  • Child X

    Lee Weatherly
    4
  • Green Fingers

    Paul May
    4
  • Twilight Ghost

    Magdalen Nabb
    4
  • What My Mother Doesn't Know

    Sonya Sones
    3
  • Daisy Chain War

    Joan O'Neill
    3
  • Letters to Liz: Jo's Letter; Letters to Liz: Nicki's Letter

    Mary Hooper
    3
  • Spindle's End

    Robin McKinley
    3
  • Transported: The Diary of Elizabeth Harvey, Australia 1790

    Goldie Alexander
    3
  • Whispers on the Wind

    Sue Welford
    3
  • Paper Faces

    Rachel Anderson
    3
  • Catherine the Great; Mao Zedong

    Christine Hatt
    2
  • Vicky Angel

    Jacqueline Wilson
    2
  • Book of Shadows; The Coven

    Cate Tiernan
    1

Ages 14+

  • The Other Wind

    Ursula Le Guin
    5
  • Martyn Pig

    Kevin Brooks
    5
  • Generations: Poems between Fathers, Mothers, Daughters, Sons

    5
  • They're Only Human

    James Grieve
    4
  • Raider's Tide

    Maggie Prince
    4

Books About Children's Books

  • The Address Book of Children's Authors and Illustrators

    Gervase Phinn
    4
  • The Child that Books Built

    Francis Spufford
    4

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