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BfK No. 44 - May 1987

Cover Story
This issue's cover is taken from an illustration by Jerry Pinkney for The Tales of Uncle Remus by Julius Lester (Bodley Head, 0 370 31089 6, £9.95). We are grateful for help from Bodley Head in using this illustration.

BfK No. 44 Articles

Editor’s Page – May 1987

News and comment from the Editor.

The Flow of the Images

Brian Alderson outlines the thinking behind `Sing a Song for Sixpence' - an exhibition he arranged at the British Library from October 1986 to January 1987. The purpose of the exhibition was not just to commemorate a great illustrator but, more ambitiously, to demonstrate `the integrity of picture-book art' and the essence of illustration...

Using Picture Books...

Andy Chapell and Louise Fitzpatrick describe their classroom approach.

Rehabilitating That Rabbit...

For years, Joel Chandler Harris's Uncle Remus stories have been under a cloud - black language and lore, say critics, concealing a white view of the world. Now Julius Lester and Jerry Pinkney have mounted a rescue operation.

Stephanie Nettell talks to both of them about one of the most exciting literary projects of the year.

The Mother Goose Award 1987 - A Bag of Plenty

Sally Grindley reports on this year's Mother Goose Award.

Authorgraph No 44 – Anthony Browne

Anthony Browne interviewed by Chris Powling.

When the Kipling had to stop

Nicholas Tucker considers the effect of new images on an old favourite: Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories

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A Top-ish Twenty

Chris Powling chooses from the season's new picture books.

BfK News – May 1987

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

All Children's Book Reviews in BfK No. 44

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

Under 5s

  • The Day the Teacher Went Bananas

    James Howe
  • Chicken for Dinner

    Nettie Lowenstein
  • Lucy Says No

    Maryann Macdonald
  • Is Anyone Home?

    Ron Maris
  • The Mice and the Flying Basket

    Rodney Peppé
  • Old Macdonald Had a Farm

    Tracey Campbell Pearson
  • Sam and the Big Machines

    Kathy Henderson
  • The Good-night Book

    Peter Curry
  • The Adventures of the Gingerbread Man ¦ Where Does Andy Go?

    Elizabeth Walker
  • Humpty Dumpty and other rhymes ¦ Little Boy Blue and other rhymes ¦ Little Bo Peep and other rhymes ¦ The Grand Old Duke of York and other rhymes

    Traditional
  • Animal Mothers ¦ Sleeping Animals

    Masayuki Yabuuchi
  • Five Senses

    Althea
  • I Touch ¦ I Hear ¦ I See

    Rachel Isadora

Ages 5-8

  • Here Comes Pob

  • Thingnapped

    Robin Klein
  • Did I Ever Tell You About My Irish Great Grandmother?

    Iris Grender

Ages 8-10

  • Foxglove Tales

    Alison Uttley
  • The Ghost in the Noonday Sun

    Sid Fleischman
  • Robin Hood

    Edward Blishen
  • Look What I've Got

    Anthony Browne
  • Princess Alice

    Nina Bawden
  • The Mona Lisa Mystery

    Pat Hutchins
  • Stanley Bagshaw and the Mafeking Square Cheese Robbery

    Bob Wilson

Ages 10-14

  • Of Griffins and Graffiti

    Kate Gilmore
  • Chocky's Challenge

    Mark Daniel
  • MASK One: The Deathstone

    Kenneth Harper
  • Nicola Mimosa

    Jean Ure
  • The Time Keeper

    Barbara Bartholomew
  • The Spell of the Sorcerer's Skull

    John Bellairs
  • The Whispering Knights

    Penelope Lively
  • Down with Taffy Sinclair

    Betsy Haynes
  • Eating Ice-cream with a Werewolf

    Phyllis Green
  • Dead Entry

    Allan Baker
  • Ghost-breakers

  • Come Back Soon

    Judy Gardiner
  • Why the Whales Came

    Michael Morpurgo
  • A Box of Nothing

    Peter Dickinson
  • Kings and Queens

    Eleanor Farjeon
    Herbert Farjeon

Ages 14+

  • Natfact 7

    John Tully
  • Hollywood Dream Machine

    Bonnie Zindel
  • The Beast Master

    Andre Norton
  • Beyond the Chocolate War

    Robert Cormier
  • Hillsden Riots

    Rhodri Jones
  • I Know What You Did Last Summer

    Lois Duncan
  • Annerton Pit

    Peter Dickinson
  • On the Edge

    Gillian Cross
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