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BfK No. 36 - January 1986

Cover Story
The illustration on our cover is from The Working Horse by Geoffrey Patterson, published by Andre Deutsch, 0 233 97786 4, £4.95. We are grateful to Andre Deutsch for help in using this illustration.

BfK No. 36 Articles

Editor's Page – January 1986

News and comment from the Editor.

Where do Information Books come from?

Pat Triggs discovers the story behind the question.

What do you know?

Marion Glastonbury has served for five years as a member of the Junior Panel for the TES Information Book Awards. Here she gives a personal view of non-fiction publishing for children in that time and in doing so raises interesting questions about what is being offered to children in the name of knowledge.

How to… Bring Children to Books

`Book fairs and book trains are definitely NOT the way to introduce books to children and encourage them to read' says Sue Stops, who describes here an alternative book event designed to get children to see why reading is such a good way to spend their time and describes Scheherazade, a travelling book event.

Sound & Vision – January 1985

News of books on film, TV and radio.

Authorgraph No.36: Geoffrey Patterson

Geoffrey Patterson interviewed by Pat Triggs.

Picture Book Studio

A look at the Austrian children's publishing company.

All Children's Book Reviews in BfK No. 36

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

Under 5s

  • Frog Hopping

    Sylvia Fairley
  • There's a train Going by My Window

    Wendy Kesselman
  • The Great Zoo Break

    Neil Hollander
  • Ten Sleepy Sheep

    Holly Keller
  • Alfie Gives a Hand

    Shirley Hughes
  • Morning, Rabbit, Morning

    Mary Caldwell
  • Mouse, Rabbit and Elephant

    Cliff Moon
  • Fat Puss and Friends

    Harriet Castor
  • The Shoemaker and the Elves

  • Mouse Tales

    Arnold Lobel
  • Peterkin's Wet Walk ¦ Peterkin Meets a Star

    Emilie Boon
  • Come into my House ¦ Tails for Sale ¦ There was a Little Pig

    Annie Butel
  • My School ¦ My Baby Brother Ned

    Sumiko
  • Starting School

    Althea
  • Owl at School

    Helen Nicoll
    Jan Pieńkowski
  • I want to see the moon

    Louis Baum
  • Dragons ¦ Elephants ¦ Witches

Ages 5-8

  • Hairy and Slug

    Margaret Joy
  • Rita the Rescuer

    Hilda Offen
  • The Magic Pasta Pot

    Tomie De Paola
  • Aunt Nina and her Nephews and Nieces

    Franz Brandenberg
  • The Grizzly Revenge

    Ruth Brown
  • Merry-Go-Round: Stories for seven year olds

  • The Joyous Adventures of Snakey Boo

    Donald Bisset
  • Anna, Grandpa, and the Big Storm

    Carla Stevens
  • Goliath and the Burglar

    Terrance Dicks
  • The Brontosaurus Birthday Cake

    Robert McCrum
  • Gorilla

    Anthony Browne
  • Hairy MacLary

    Lynley Dodd

Ages 8-10

  • Mists and Magic

  • The Queen's Nose

    Dick King-Smith
  • Tightrope to Terror

    Robert Kellett
  • Cat Walk

    Mary Stolz
  • The Witch Child

    Imogen Chichester
  • The Cat King's Daughter and other stories

  • Zesty

    Sam McBratney
  • Three Gifts from the Green Dragon and other stories from Chinese Literature

    Catherine Lim
  • Ghostly Companions

    Vivien Alcock
  • The Tale of Greyfriar's Bobby

    Lavinia Derwent

Ages 10-14

  • Exiles of ColSec

    Douglas Hill
  • The House in Angel Lane

    Enid Gibson
  • Messages

    Marjorie Darke
  • Witch Week

    Diana Wynne Jones
  • The Year of the Worm

    Ann Pilling
  • Dicey's Song

    Cynthia Voigt
  • Witches ¦ Vampires ¦ Spooks

    Colin Hawkins
  • Nick & Co in a Fix

    Bob Croson
  • The Messenger ¦ Ballad of Favour

    Monica Dickens
  • Last Seen on Hooper's Lane

    Janet Allais Stegeman
  • You Two

    Jean Ure
  • Children of the Vikings

    Jonathan Rumbold
  • Jacky Nobody

    Anne De Roo
  • Cry Vampire

    Terrance Dicks
  • Beyond World's End ¦ The Genie and Her Bottle

    Nina Beachcroft
  • Peril at Sea

    Roderic Jeffries
  • The Werewolf Mask

    Kenneth Ireland
  • BMX Star Rider

    Caroline Graham

Ages 14+

  • Cloudy Bright

    John Rowe Townsend
  • Silver's Revenge

    Robert Leeson
  • Walk Through Cold Fire

    Cin Forshay-Lunsford
  • Suffer Dogs

    Frank Willmott
  • Poona Company

    Farrukh Dhondy
  • The Haunting of Chas McGill and other stories

    Robert Westall
  • I Will Call it Georgie's Blues

    Suzanne Newton
  • The Changeover

    Margaret Mahy
  • Centre Line

    Joyce Sweeney
  • Waiting for the Sky to Fall

    Jacqueline Wilson
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