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BfK No. 41 - November 1986

Cover Story
This issue's cover is from Rodney Peppe's The Mice and the Clockwork Bus. Rodney Peppe is interviewed by Stephanie Nettell.

BfK No. 41 Articles

Editor's Page – November 1986

News and comment from the Editor.
A Season To Be Giving

Pat Triggs selects books about Christmas.
On the Permanence of Pooh

To mark the sixtieth anniversary of the first appearance of A. A. Milne's famous bear, Chris Powling offers an essay
Noel Streatfeild

Noel Streatfeild, a writer of modern classics, is recalled by one of her editors, Susan Dickinson.
Rabbits mice ... and children

Aspects of Beatrix Potter.
Classics on the Screen - The Children of Green Knowe and The Little Princess

Lucy Boston and Frances Hodgson Burnett adapted for television.
Authorgraph No 41 – Rodney Peppé

Rodney Pepp
TalkBack - Response to a Jaded Jury

In the May issue of Books for Keeps Colin McNaughton explained why the panel of judges for the Mother Goose Award had decided not to nominate a 1985 winner.

Tudor Humphries, an artist whose first children's book was published last year, read the report and talks back to the Mother Goose judges.
Make a Note of These

Hardbacks to look for, selected by Pat Triggs.
BfK News - November 1986

News about what's happening in the children's book world.
Sound & Vision - November 1986

News of books on films and television.

All Children's Book Reviews in BfK No. 41

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

Under 5s

  • The Grand Old Duke of York
    Maureen Roffey

  • One Duck, Another Duck
    Charlotte Pomerantz

  • The Supermarket Mice
    Margaret Gordon

  • Nicky's Picnic ¦ Nicky's Noisy Night
    Harriet Ziefert

  • An Evening at Alfie's
    Shirley Hughes

  • Lucy & Tom's a.b.c.
    Shirley Hughes

Ages 5-8

  • T.R.'s Day Out
    Terrance Dicks

  • Angelina and the Princess
    Katharine Holabird

  • But Martin!
    June Counsel

  • Her Majesty Aunt Essie
    Amy Schwartz

  • Bare Bear
    Jez Alborough

  • Margaret and Taylor
    Kevin Henkes

  • The Friends of Emily Culpepper
    Ann Coleridge

Ages 8-10

  • The Beast in Ms Rooney's Room ¦ Fish Face ¦ The Pop Corn Contest
    Patricia Reilly Giff

  • Hansel and Gretel
    The Brothers Grimm

  • A Lamp for the Lambchops
    Jeff Brown

  • Basil of Baker Street
    Eve Titus

  • Little Dracula's First Bite ¦ Little Dracula's Christmas
    Martin Waddell

  • A Year at Sheepfold Farm
    Susan Williams

  • Blue Misty Monsters
    Catherine Sefton

  • The Bureaucats
    Richard Adams

  • The Gnome Factory
    James Reeves

Ages 10-14

  • The Banger Boys
    Anne Fussell

  • Knights and Emeralds
    Mark Daniel

  • Shades of Dark

  • Collision
    Anthony Wall

  • Archer's Goon
    Diana Wynne Jones

  • Dolphin Island
    Arthur C Clarke

  • The Night of the Scorpion
    Anthony Horowitz

  • The Walking Stones
    Mollie Hunter

  • The Children of Lir
    Michael Scott

  • Uninvited Ghosts
    Penelope Lively

  • Butterfly Island
    Rick Searle

Ages 14+

  • Displaced Person
    Lee Harding

  • Children of the Dust
    Louise Lawrence

  • Changing Times
    Tim Kennemore

  • The Nature of the Beast
    Janni Howker

  • Enter Tom
    June Oldham
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