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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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