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BfK No. 80 - May 1993

Cover Story
The illustration on our cover is taken from Think of an Eel, Karen Wallace, ill. Mike Bostock, published by Walker (0 7445 2250 1, £6.99) - see the article 'Facts... With the Freshness of Fiction'  for more about this book and others in the 'Read and Wonder' series. We are grateful to Walker Books for their help in using this illustration.

BfK No. 80 Articles

Editorial – May 1993

News and comment from the Editor.
Facts... with the Freshness of Fiction

Eleanor von Schweinitz, BfK's Non-fiction Editor, assesses a new initiative in information books.
Authorgraph No.80: Rosemary Wells

Rosemary Wells interviewed by Julia Eccleshare
Smiling at the Crocodile

Mary Hoffman on the sequel to Amazing Grace.
Rapscallion Laureate

Brian Alderson offers a preliminary assessment of James Marshall.
Writer Reply: Pen-Ultimata

Robert Leeson comments on the PEN Report.
Awards: Guardian Children's Fiction Award & Mother Goose Award, 1993

Judges Joanna Carey and Sally Grindley report on this year's winners.
Signs of Plenty

Jeff Hynds' Round-up of Spring Picture Books.
BfK Briefing – May 1993

News * Publications * Award * Events
Quickness on the Draw

Scoular Anderson on teach-yourself-illustration books.

All Children's Book Reviews in BfK No. 80

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

Under 5s

  • Baby Animals on the Farm; Colours on the Farm
    Jane Miller

  • The Big Alfie Out-of-Doors Storytape
    Shirley Hughes

  • Let's Go to the Party; Let's Go to Playschool

  • What I like
    Catherine Anholt
    Laurence Anholt

  • Seasons
    John Burningham

  • The Big Sneeze
    Ruth Brown

  • Breakfast on Rosie's Farm; A Day on Rosie's Farm
    Zita Newcome

  • Black Dog
    Pamela Allen

  • My Cat Maisie
    Pamela Allen

  • Busy! Busy! Busy!
    Jonathan Shipton

  • What Archie Wanted
    Holly Keller

Ages 5-8

  • In the Air; Under the Ground
    Henry Pluckrose

  • What Happens when Rain Falls?
    Daphne Butler

  • Rise and Shine

  • Sink or Swim; The Dearest Boy in all the World
    Ghillian Potts

  • Never Kiss Frogs!
    Robert Leeson

  • Peter Potts the Plumber
    Margaret Ryan

  • The Friendly Robin
    Enid Blyton

  • Joe Useless
    Dennis Reader

  • Fed Up!
    Dennis Reader

  • Butterfingers
    Dennis Reader

  • Little Dog Lost
    Inga Moore

  • Prehistoric Pinkerton
    Steven Kellogg

  • Charlie Barley
    Sally Ann Lever

  • The Toymaker
    Martin Waddell

  • At the Crossroads
    Rachel Isadora

  • Rolf and Rosie
    Robert Swindells

  • The Streetwise Kid
    Lorraine Simeon

  • The Calypso Alphabet
    John Agard

  • Sonny Joe and the Ringdom Rhymes
    Mike McCartney

  • Late Kick-Off
    Margaret Joy

  • The Lighthouse that ran away
    Roger McGough

  • Duncan's Tree House; Duncan and the Bird
    Amanda Vesey

  • Thinking about Colours
    Jessica Jenkins

  • Musical Max
    Robert Kraus

  • Dial-a-Croc
    Mike Dumbleton

  • Frog and the Birdsong
    Max Velthuijs

  • Don't Do That!
    Tony Ross

  • Captain Pugwash and the Pigwig

  • Rent-a-Genius
    Gillian Cross

  • Come on into my Tropical Garden
    Grace Nichols

  • The Worst Child I Ever Had
    Anne Fine

  • Rosa's Grandfather Sings Again
    Leon Rosselson

Ages 8-10

  • Harry's Mad
    Dick King-Smith

  • Reckless Ruby
    Hiawyn Oram

  • The Nine Lives of Montezuma
    Michael Morpurgo

  • Wordspells
    Judith Nicholls

  • Harvey Angell
    Diana Hendry

  • Sink or Swim; The Dearest Boy in all the World
    Ghillian Potts

  • Pet Poems
    Robert Fisher

  • The Witch That Wasn't
    Carlo Gébler

  • To Be a Ghost
    Raymond Wilson

  • Ip Dip Sky Blue
    Mary Hoffman

  • The Bullies Meet The Willow Street Kids
    Michele Elliott

  • A View to Thrill; The Eiffel Target; Sandblast; Live and Let's Dance
    John Vincent

  • The Rockingdown Mystery
    Enid Blyton

  • The Night Shimmy
    Gwen Strauss

  • Mr Potter's Pigeon
    Patrick Kinmonth

  • Mattie and Grandpa
    Roberto Piummini

  • Window
    Jeannie Baker

  • Misery Guts
    Morris Gleitzman

  • The Seventh Seal
    Julie Rainsbury

  • Roz and Cromarty
    Clare Bevan

  • Vincent the Invisible
    Eric Houghton

  • Lady Daisy
    Dick King-Smith

  • Aliens for Lunch
    Jonathan Etra

Ages 10-14

  • Australian Aborigines; Maori; Native Americans
    Richard Nile

  • The Amazing World of Plants
    Phil Gates

  • The Sports Book
    Carol Gold

  • Soccer
    Sean McSweeney

  • Oil Spills; The Ozone Hole
    Jane Walker

  • The Cybil War
    Betsy Byars

  • The Way to Sattin Shore
    Philippa Pearce

  • Irish Folk and Fairy Tales
    Gordon Jarvie

  • Double Image
    Pat Moon

  • Journey
    Patricia MacLachlan

  • Action Replay
    Michael Rosen

  • Masks
    Gloria Hatrick

  • Five Easy Lessons
    Sally Odgers

  • Gangsters, Ghosts and Dragonflies
    Brian Patten

  • Homebird
    Terence Blacker

  • Del-Del
    Victor Kelleher

  • Telling the Sea
    Pauline Fisk

  • The Vandemark Mummy
    Cynthia Voigt

Ages 14+

  • Wuthering Heights: Educational Package Video: A Critical Guide to the Novel
    Emily Brontë

  • Here and Never
    Rex Harley

  • Face to Face
    Frances Usher

  • Saturday Night
    Caroline B Cooney

  • The Tower Room; Watching the Roses
    Adèle Geras

  • The Dark Card
    Amy Ehrlich

  • The China Coin
    Allan Baillie

  • Die Softly
    Christopher Pike

  • Tasting the Thunder
    Gary Paulsen

  • The Empty House
    Claude Gutman

  • Lyddie
    Katherine Paterson
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