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BfK No. 84 - January 1994

Cover Story
The illustration on our cover this month is by GeorgeUnderwood. It is from Geoffrey Trease's latest book, Fire in the Wind, published by Pan Macmillan, to whom we are grateful for help in using this illustration. Details of the book are given in our Authorgraph.

BfK No. 84 Articles

Editorial – January 1994

News and comment from the Editor.
Meeting Morris Gleitzman

George Hunt interviews an author for whom tragedy and a good laugh are not incompatible.
Authorgraph No.84: Geoffrey Trease

Geoffrey Trease interviewed by Chris Powling
The True Story of the Big Bad Wolf

Philippa Milnes-Smith investigates a continuing phenomenon.
Beyond the Designer Label?

David Bennett encourages reluctant readers.
Series of Desire

Sally Feldman on the books teenagers buy.
BfK Briefing – January 1994

News * Awards * Publications * Events

Money, Myths… and a Monster

Jill Burridge reviews current hardback fiction for teenagers.

All Children's Book Reviews in BfK No. 84

  • Under 5s
  • Ages 5-8
  • Ages 8-10
  • Ages 10-14
  • Ages 14+
  • Books About Children's Books

Under 5s

  • Here Comes Tod!
    Philippa Pearce

  • Billy's Beetle
    Mick Inkpen

  • Mr Henry and the Sea Serpent
    Andy Ellis

  • Floss
    Kim Lewis

  • Topsy and Tim Go Camping; Topsy and Tim Go to the Seaside
    Jean Adamson
    Gareth Adamson

  • Do You Know What Grandad Did?
    Brian Smith

  • A Giraffe on the Moon
    Sandy Nightingale

  • Herds of Words
    Patricia McCarthy

  • We're Going on a Bear Hunt

Ages 5-8

  • A Child's Book of Art
    Lucy Micklethwait

  • Who are your Family?; Who are your Friends?
    Jillian Powell

  • Betsey Biggalow is Here!
    Malorie Blackman

  • Into the Jungle
    Dennis Reader

  • Story of the Year

  • I Spy Numbers in Art
    Lucy Micklethwait

  • School Secretary on the Warpath
    Brough Girling

  • The Wacky Book of Witches
    Anne Civardi

  • Where's Our Mama? Où est Maman?
    Diane Goode

  • Follow That Chimp
    Philippe Dupasquier

  • Funnybones: Skeleton Crew; Funnybones: The Ghost Train
    Allan Ahlberg

  • From Acorn to Zoo
    Satoshi Kitamura

Ages 8-10

  • The Stinky Cheese Man and other Fairly Stupid Tales
    Jon Scieszka
    Lane Smith

  • Grassland Wildlife
    Kamini Khanduri

  • Commuter Village
    Neil Thomson

  • Danger at Dark Hows
    Patricia Sibley

  • The Bear Nobody Wanted
    Janet Ahlberg
    Allan Ahlberg

  • Simple Simon
    Yvonne Coppard

  • Take a Good Look
    Jacqueline Wilson

  • The Comic Strip Odyssey

  • Rising in the East Poems by young writers from London's East End

  • The Big Goal
    Rob Childs

  • Swan Sister
    Annie Dalton

  • Full Moon Soup
    Alastair Graham

Ages 10-14

  • Advertising
    Brenda Mann

  • The Blue Whale; Whale
    Melissa Kim

  • Carrie's War
    Nina Bawden

  • Flour Babies
    Anne Fine

  • Strider
    Beverly Cleary

  • Vampires, Phantoms and Werewolves of the Night
    Winifred Finlay

  • The Thousand Eyes of Night
    Robert Swindells

  • Dead Man at the Door
    Anthony Masters

  • Can I Buy a Slice of Sky? Poems from Black, Asian and American Indian Cultures

  • Hacker
    Malorie Blackman

  • All in the Blue Unclouded Weather
    Robin Klein

  • Dracula's Late Night TV Show
    Victor Ambrus

  • The Shark Callers
    Eric Campbell

  • The Dollmaker and other simister stories

  • Juliet's Story
    William Trevor

  • Journey to a Dream
    Thurley Fowler

  • Rainbow and Mr Zed
    Jenny Nimmo

Ages 14+

  • Scientific Explorers
    Rebecca Stefoff

  • Winter Survival: nature's ways of coping with the cold
    Mari Friend

  • Tess of the D'Urbevilles
    Thomas Hardy

  • Along a Lonely Road
    Catherine Sefton

  • Rainbows of the Moon
    Tom McCaughren

  • Python Dance
    Norman Silver

  • Writing in Martian
    Andrew Matthews

  • Hands Off my Sister
    Geraldine Kaye

  • Orfe
    Cynthia Voigt

  • Goodbye & Hello

  • Song for a Tattered Flag
    Geoffrey Trease

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  • Buyer's Guide to Encyclopedias
    Nicholas Tucker
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