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BfK No. 18 - January 1983

Cover Story
On our cover this issue we feature a still from the new BBC TV serial of Robert Westall's The Machine Gunners. There is a new Puffin with a tie-in cover, (0 14 03 0973 X, £1.10). We are most grateful to Puffin for their help in using this picture.

BfK No. 18 Articles

Editorial – January 1983

News and comment from the Editor.

The World of Children's Books: Part 5 – Readerland

In a new landfall we follow in the footsteps of the few who have so far explored...

Lifeline Two: Multi-cultural Books For Children

Judith Elkin introduces a new Lifeline Library series.

Authorgraph No.18: Robert Westall

Robert Westall interviewed by Pat Triggs.

Teenage Fiction Award

A report on the Young Observer/Rank prize.

Teenage Fiction - another uninspired year

An alternative view of 1982 from Steve Bowles.

Sound & Vision - January 1983

News and views about books on TV and in films.

Meet the Borribles

and their creator, Michael de Larrabeiti.

Getting Going with Poetry

The pick of recent anthologies.

BfK News - January 1983

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

All Children's Book Reviews in BfK No. 18

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

Under 5s

Paddington Goes Shopping ¦ Paddington at the Circus

Michael Bond
Alfie Gets in first

Shirley Hughes
Tim Mouse

Judy Brook
A House is a House for Me

Mary Ann Hoberman

Ages 5-8

Professor Branestawm's Pocket Motor Car

Norman Hunter
Toby's Millions

Morris Lurie
Littlenose the Marksman

John Grant
Warton and the King of the Skies

Russell Erickson
Bobby Brewster's Shadow

H E Todd
Wayfarers All

Kenneth Grahame
Tiggers Don't Climb Trees ¦ Piglet Does a Very Good Thing ¦ Eeyore Finds the Wolery

A A Milne
Pigwig and the Pirates

John Dyke
My Ballet Class

Rachel Isadora

Ages 8-10

Goodnight Stories

Meryl Doney
Scottish Folk Tales

Ruth Manning-Sanders
MacPherson's Highland Fling

Lavinia Derwent
Evil Eye

Nicholas Fisk
Winged Magic

Barbara Sleigh
George's Marvellous Medicine

Roald Dahl

Ages 10-14

Nothing to be Afraid of

Jan Mark
Alien Worlds
A Rag, a Bone and Hank of Hair

Nicholas Fisk
Another Fine Mess

Jan Needle
Mill Green on Stage

Alison Prince
Mog and The Rectifier

Chris Powling
The Tomorrow City

Monica Hughes
Break Point

Jeremy Burnham
The Terror Cubes

Granville Wilson

Ages 14+

An Inch of Candle

Alison Leonard
Ghost in the Water ¦ A Pattern of Roses

Edward Chitham