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BfK No. 83 - November 1993

Cover Story
The illustration on our cover this month is by Andrew Skilleter from Susan Cooper's Over Sea, Under Stone. Susan Cooper is interviewed by Stephanie Nettell. The book is published by Bodley Head, to whom we are grateful for help in using this illustration.

BfK No. 83 Articles

Editorial – November 1993

News and comment from the Editor.
Let There Be Dragons

Terry Pratchett on writing fantasy.
Guidelines and Selected Titles: 100 Picture Books chosen by The Working Group Against Racism in Children’s Resources

Anne Marley assesses.
Series Titles – November 1993

Some of the latest, reviewed by Steve Rosson.
Authorgraph No.83: Susan Cooper

Susan Cooper interviewed by Stephanie Nettell.
Blind Spot: Snobberies, Sneers and Narnia…

Victor Watson on the narrowness of C S Lewis.
Dear Mr Peach...

Principal Librarian Gerry Peach and Children's Librarian Linda Smith ask children's writers what libraries mean to them.
Writing SF for Kids

Douglas Hill talks about the genre.
Journeys into Inner Space

Jessica Yates selects SF for youngsters.
BfK Briefing – November 1993

News * Publications * Events
Junior Fantasy

Chosen by Margaret Clark.
APOLOGY

About a pale cover...

All Children's Book Reviews in BfK No. 83

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

Under 5s

  • Pirates
    Colin Hawkins
    Jacqui Hawkins

  • The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr Benn, Red Knight
    David McKee

  • The Magic Roundabout: Brian s New House
    Helen Lloyd

  • Little Beaver and the Echo
    Amy MacDonald

  • Fritz and the Mess Fairy
    Rosemary Wells

  • Working Machines: The Dump Truck; Working Machines: The Tugboat
    Arlene Blanchard

  • Magic Beach
    Alison Lester

  • How Many?
    Rick Walton

  • Two by Two
    Barbara Reid

  • The Orchard Book of Nursery Stories
    Sophie Windham

  • Imagine
    Alison Lester

  • Five Little Ducks
    Ian Beck

  • I Spy ABC
    Sally Anne Lambert

  • At the Shops; At Playgroup; At Home; In the Garden
    Susie Lacome

Ages 5-8

  • Birds; Flowers; Molluscs; Trees
    Joy Richardson

  • Grandma's Hat
    Rosemary Kahn

  • Dragon Poems
    John Foster

  • One in a Million, ill.
    Moira Andrew

  • The Magic Hare
    Lynne Reid Banks

  • Dear Greenpeace
    Simon James

  • The Steadfast Tin Soldier
    Hans Christian Andersen

  • The Puddletown Dragon
    Maggie Pearson

  • Blue Magic
    Hazel Townson

  • Toffee Pockets
    Jeanne Willis

  • The Smallest Stegosaurus
    Lynn Sweat
    Louis Phillips

  • First Class
    Rose Impey

  • I'm Not Frightened of Ghosts
    Juliet Charles Snape

  • Mini Beasties
    Michael Rosen

  • A Secret Place
    Julia Draper

  • Hairy Maclary's Showbusiness
    Lynley Dodd

  • Mama, Papa and Baby Joe
    Niki Daly

  • The Sugar-Gum Tree
    Patricia Wrightson

Ages 8-10

  • The Search for the East; Voyages to the New World
    Peter Chrisp

  • SF on Tape
    Stephen Bowkett
    Jan Dean
    Helen Dunmore
    Anthony Masters

  • The Werepuppy
    Jacqueline Wilson

  • Animal Poetry; Green Poetry; Sea Poetry; Christmas Poetry

  • Mousehole Cat
    Antonia Barber

  • The Orphan Boy
    Tololwa M Molel

  • Stinky Stories
    Barbara Ireson

  • The Mystery of the Cupboard
    Lynne Reid Banks

  • Seeing Off Uncle Jack
    Bernard Ashley

  • Sourland
    William H Armstrong

  • The Canterbury Tales
    Selina Hastings

Ages 10-14

  • Junior Pears Encyclopaedia
    Edward Blishen

  • Free at Last: a history of the civil rights movement and those who died in the struggle
    Sara Bullard

  • Clean Environment; Food; Homeland; Justice
    Sara Jones

  • Small Change
    Marianne Frances

  • Focus on Coins and Currency
    Brenda Ralph Lewis

  • The Circulation of the Blood
    Merce Parramon
    Frances Halton

  • Woodwind
    Alyn Shipton

  • Truckers
    Terry Pratchett

  • The Suitcase Kid
    Jacqueline Wilson

  • Advantage, Miss Jackson
    Michael Hardcastle

  • The Flower King
    Lesley Howarth

  • The Intruder
    John Rowe Townsend

  • The Street Dancers
    Elizabeth Starr Hill

  • Thin Air
    David Getz

  • The File on Fraulein Berg
    Joan Lingard

  • Losing David
    Alida Young

  • Horror Stories
    Terry Deary

  • Knights of the Lost Domain
    Julian Atterton

  • A Ghost waiting
    Hugh Scott

Ages 14+

  • Seven Weeks Last Summer
    Catherine Robinson

  • Love in a Dustbin
    Janet Green

  • The Other Side of the Fence
    Jean Ure

  • Ordinary Seaman
    John Gordon

  • Yesterday
    Adèle Geras

  • Fearful Lovers
    Robert Westall

  • Then Came the Liars, Then Came the Fools
    Anna McLeay
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