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BfK No. 70 - September 1991

Cover Story
The illustration on the front of BfK this month is from Rub-a-Dub-Dub: Val Biro's 77 Favourite Nursery Rhymes (see Authorgraph for details). The book is published by Blackie and we thank them for their help in using this illustration.

BfK No. 70 Articles

Editorial – September 1991

News and comment from the Editor.
Reading and the Imagination

Jack Ousbey on reading, imagination, stories...
Authorgraph No.70: Val Biro

Val Biro interviewed by Pam Harwood.
History in the National Curriculum

John Fines on the history curriculum plus recommended titles for Key Stage Two.
The Story of Jets

Fiona Kenshole discusses the series, with help from Scoular Anderson.
Kaye Webb and Puffin’s 50th

Stephanie Nettell on the legendary editor, Kaye Webb.
Creating the Oxford Children's Encyclopedia

Mary Worrall, Managing Editor, Children's Reference, reports.
Happy Birthday to Us...

Chris Powling looks at three publications to mark Puffin's Fiftieth Anniversary.

All Children's Book Reviews in BfK No. 70

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

Under 5s

  • A Child's Garden of Verses
    Robert Louis Stevenson

  • Postman Pat and the Letter-Puzzle and other stories
    John Cunliffe

  • Busy A B C
    Colin Hawkins
    Jacqui Hawkins

  • Go Tell It to the Toucan
    Colin West

  • That New Dress
    Malorie Blackman

  • Can Hippo Jump?
    Gerald Rose

  • Wake Up, Dad! ¦ Can I Help, Dad?

  • All Gone ¦ Oh No!
    Sarah Garland

  • The Wheels on the Bus
    Maryann Kovalski

  • My Brown Bear Barney
    Dorothy Butler

  • The Fat King
    Graham Jeffery

Ages 5-8

  • Ace
    Dick King-Smith

  • Recycling
    Barbara James

  • A Seaport through History
    Xavier Hernandez
    Jordi Ballonga

  • My Car ¦ My Drum ¦ My Magnet ¦ My Shell
    Kay Davies
    Wendy Oldfield

  • Monster Hullabaloo!
    Andrew Matthews

  • Messy Maisy Maisy's Measles
    Sheila Lavelle

  • The Royal Huddle The Royal Muddle
    Michael Rosen

  • Benjamin Pig and the Apple Thieves Annabelle Pig and the Travellers
    David McKee

  • The Flayaway Pantaloons
    Sue Scullard
    Joseph Sharples

  • The Saracen Maid ¦ Khumalo's Blanket
    Leon Garfield

  • The Frog Prince
    Jan Ormerod

  • Boneshaker
    Paul Rogers
    Emma Rogers

  • The Secret in the Matchbox
    Val Willis

  • Once There Were Giants
    Martin Waddell

Ages 8-10

  • Jim and the Umbells
    Leigh Odlin

  • Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
    Roald Dahl

  • Archimedes
    Peter Lafferty

  • The Greeks ¦ The Romans ¦ The Incas ¦ The Vikings
    Jacqueline Dineen

  • Mel's Run
    Anthony Masters

  • Number the Stars
    Lois Lowry

  • Anneli the Art Hater
    Anne Fine

  • The Haunted Sand
    Hugh Scott

  • The Whitby Witches
    Robin Jarvis

  • The Outside Child
    Nina Bawden

  • Maybreak
    Frances Usher

  • All My Own Stuff
    Adrian Mitchell

  • The Triple Spiral
    Stephanie Green

  • Thunderwith
    Libby Hathorn

  • A Box of Ogres
    Tim Healey
    Charles Fuge

  • What Would You Do with a Wobble-Dee-Woo?
    Colin West

  • A Summer Ghost
    Ruth Tomalin

  • The Stone Menagerie
    Anne Fine

  • In the Doghouse ¦ The Sleeping Party
    Jan Needle

  • Winning Words

  • New Kid on the Block
    Jack Prelutsky

  • The Hypnotiser
    Michael Rosen

  • Oddly
    Jon Blake

  • Why, Charlie Brown, Why?
    Charles M Schulz

Ages 10-14

  • Thunder and Lightnings
    Jan Mark

  • Five Minute Thrillers
    Bernard Jackson
    Susie Quintanilla

  • Ian and Fred's Big Green Book
    Fred Pearce
    Ian Winton

  • My Childhood in Nazi Germany
    Elsbeth Emmerich
    Robert Hull

Ages 14+

  • I'd Rather Be Famous
    Pete Johnson

  • Silver
    Norma Fox Mazer

  • The Room With No Windows
    Gene Kemp

  • Plague 99
    Jean Ure

  • Josephine
    Kenneth Lillington

  • Jan Alone
    Robert Leeson

  • Girls Are Powerful
    Susan Hemmings

  • The Promise
    Robert Westall

  • Almost Japanese
    Sarah Sheard

  • Chinese Handcuffs
    Chris Crutcher

  • Among Friends
    Caroline B Cooney

  • Eva
    Peter Dickinson
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