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BfK No. 85 - March 1994

Cover Story
The illustration on our March cover is by Chris Riddell. It is taken from Philip Ridley's new book, Meteorite Spoon, published by Viking, to whom we're grateful for help in using this illustration. Details of the book are given in the Authorgraph.

BfK No. 85 Articles

Editorial – March 1994

News and comment from the Editor.
Rising Stars

Wendy Cooling on new talent in children's books.
Leon Garfield's Shakespeare

Susan Elkin reviews adaptations.
Series Titles

Some of the latest, reviewed by Steve Rosson.
Authorgraph No.85: Philip Ridley

Philip Ridley interviewed by George Hunt.
A Bit of Earth

Ted Percy selects books on gardening.
Contemplating Carnegie (continued)

Letters from our readers about the Carnegie Medal.
Going to School on a Story

Do our schools give enough regard to the world of the
imagination? Tessa Strickland reflects.
Into the Realms of Myth

Rosalind Kerven on an experiment in writing with children.
BfK Briefing – March 1994

News * Publications

A Kind of Catching Up

Margaret Meek looks at new books from old favourites.

All Children's Book Reviews in BfK No. 85

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

Under 5s

  • Cannonball Simp
    John Burningham

  • Little Mouse Twitchy Whiskers
    Margaret Mayo

  • When Grandma Came
    Jill Paton Walsh

  • Tidy Titch
    Pat Hutchins

  • Home Sweet Home
    Colin Smithson

  • How Many Days to my Birthday?
    Gus Clarke

  • The Way Home
    Judith Benet Richardson

  • Benjamin and the Bear Twins
    Martine Beck

  • The Elephant Tree
    Penny Dale

  • One Winter's Night
    Primrose Lockwood

  • Ruby to the Rescue
    Maggie Glen

Ages 5-8

  • Stay Safe!
    Anna Qualter
    John Quinn

  • The Adventures of Peter Rabbit and 9 Other Favourite Tales
    Beatrix Potter

  • Five Mice and the Moon
    Joyce Dunbar

  • The Jumblies
    Edward Lear

  • Cannonball Simp
    John Burningham

  • Captain Ding, The Double-Decker Pirate
    David Cox

  • Bubblegum Magic
    Susan Lacy

  • Don't Step On That Earwig

  • Tigress
    Helen Cowcher

  • The Monster Birthday Party
    Carolyn Dinan

  • Billy and Belle
    Sarah Garland

  • Bloop and the Big Bad Barons
    Peter Haswell

  • I never saw a purple cow
    Emma Chichester Clark

  • The Dog That Dug
    Jonathan Long
    Korky Paul

  • Kachunka!
    Enid Richemont

Ages 8-10

  • Colour in Communication
    Sally Morgan
    Adrian Morgan

  • The Toby Man
    Dick King-Smith

  • Spooky Stories

  • Winter Story
    Jill Barklem

  • The Eleventh Hour
    Graeme Base

  • Snow-White

  • Prince Cinders
    Babette Cole

  • Jumble Joan; The Flat Man
    Rose Impey

  • 'The chicken gave it to me'
    Anne Fine

  • The Green Kids
    Sam McBratney

  • Magnificent!
    James Pope

  • The Broonie, Silkies and Fairies
    Duncan Williamson

  • The Screaming Field; Bump in the Night
    Wendy Eyton

  • The Witch's Ring
    Rachel Dixon

  • Dark Hills Hollow Clocks
    Garry Kilworth

  • The Exiles
    Hilary McKay

Ages 10-14

  • Growing Up

  • Charles Ball and American Slavery

  • Industrial Revolution
    John D Clare

  • Fakes and Forgeries
    Ian Graham

  • Dead! The story of death and dying; Sick! The story of illness and getting better
    Jim Hatfield

  • Everyone Else's Parents Said Yes
    Paula Danziger

  • Laughter Is An Egg
    John Agard

  • The Tiger and the Brahmin

  • Pesters of the West
    Lisa Taylor
    Tony Blundell

  • A Gift of Magic
    Lois Duncan

  • Baa Baa Dead Sheep
    Jill Bennett

  • The Zagor Chronicles: Firestorm; The Zagor Chronicles: Darkthrone
    Ian Livingstone
    Carl Sargent

  • The Wall
    Elizabeth Lutzeier

  • Burning Issy
    Melvin Burgess

  • Smokescreen
    Elsie McCutcheon

  • The Fisherwoman
    Anne Carter

  • I Want Doesn't Get
    Rony Robinson

  • Sweetgrass
    Jan Hudson

  • Fireside Tales of the Traveller Children
    Duncan Williamson

Ages 14+

  • Of Mice and Men
    John Steinbeck

  • The Man Without a Face
    Isabelle Holland

  • The Dead Hour
    Pete Johnson

  • Riddle Me This
    Linda Newbery

  • Treasure: the trials of a teenage terror
    Gina Davidson
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