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BfK No. 88 - September 1994

Cover Story
This month our cover features The Wheel of Surya (see Authorgraph for details), with artwork by Caroline Binch. The paperback of Jamila Gavin’s book was published by Mammoth in July 1994 and we’re most grateful to them for their help in using this illustration.

BfK No. 88 Articles

Editorial – September 1994

News and comment from the Editor.
I Din Do Nuttin... to Gregory Cool

Rosemary Stones on BfK's updated Multicultural Guide.
Series Titles Reviews

Some of the latest, chosen by Steve Rosson.
Authorgraph No.88: Jamila Gavin

Jamila Gavin interviewed by Stephanie Nettell.
It Began in a Forest Rest-house

Ruskin Bond on how he became a reader.
Blind Spot: Self-Portrait of the Laureate of Nonsense

Rachel Anderson on Edward Lear.
A Poet on Poetry

Judith Nicholls assesses recent titles.
BfK Briefing – September 1994

News * Publications * Events * Awards
Generous Vendors

Morag Styles introduces A Caribbean Dozen.

All Children's Book Reviews in BfK No. 88

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

Under 5s

  • Emily's House
    Niko Scharer

  • Eat Your Dinner
    Virginia Miller

  • A Shop Full of Kittens
    Ian Penney

  • What Happened to Wilfred Bear
    Abigail Pizer

  • The Pig in the Pond
    Martin Waddell

  • Toot! Toot! I'm Going Shopping
    Sally Grindley

  • Little Red Tractor To the Rescue; The Day Jeremy Came to Stay
    Colin Reeder

Ages 5-8

  • Paper; Metal; Rock and Stone; Wood
    Henry Pluckrose

  • The Fit Fat Cat
    Wendy Smith

  • The Dog Who Had Kittens
    Polly M Robertus

  • The Ghost at Codlin Castle and Other Stories
    Dick King-Smith

  • Betsey Biggalow the Detective
    Malorie Blackman

  • Jessy and the Bridesmaid's Dress
    Rachel Anderson

  • Donkey Magic
    Caroline Sutherland

  • Tippu
    David Day

  • Let's Get a Pet... or maybe not!
    Harriet Ziefert

  • Lily and the Present
    Christine Ross

Ages 8-10

  • I Come From China; China
    Anita Ganeri

  • Birds; Mammals; Insects; Reptiles
    Anita Ganeri

  • How Would You Survive as an Aztec?
    Fiona Macdonald

  • Anglo-Saxon Village; Tudor Farmhouse
    Monica Stoppleman

  • When Hunger Calls
    Bert Kitchen

  • Cyril MC
    Mary Hoffman

  • Zoo
    Anthony Browne

  • The Rain Forest Storybook
    Rosalind Kerven

  • Smart Girls
    Robert Leeson

  • The Dancing Bear
    Michael Morpurgo

  • Two's Company
    Jackie Kay

  • Fire on the Wind
    Geoffrey Trease

  • Blue Bird
    Maurice Maeterlinck

Ages 10-14

  • Greenpeace; World Wide Fund for Nature
    Paul Brown

  • Fossils; Mushrooms and Fungi
    Chris Pellant

  • Desert
    Miranda Macquitty

  • Land of the Four Winds
    Veronica Freeman Ellis

  • A Bone from a Dry Sea
    Peter Dickinson

  • Dog Bites Goalie
    Michael Hardcastle

  • Flour Babies
    Anne Fine

  • Lucky
    Roger McGough

  • Throwaways
    Ian Strachan

  • The Great Elephant Chase
    Gillian Cross

  • The Rag Bag Family
    Yvonne Coppard

  • Boom Boom Loopy and the Rainforest Remedy
    Mark Foster
    Phillip Burrows

  • No Friend of Mine
    Ann Turnbull

  • Ghost Song
    Susan Price

  • The Puffin Book of Science Fiction
    Nicholas Fisk

Ages 14+

  • The Boy in the Bubble
    Ian Strachan

  • The Year of the Stranger
    Allan Campbell Mclean

  • In Love with an Urban Gorilla
    Steve Skidmore
    Steve Barlow

  • They Do Things Differently There
    Jan Mark

  • Tunes for Bears to dance to -
    Robert Cormier

  • One More River
    Lynne Reid Banks

Books About Children's Books

  • The Oxford Book of Children’s Stories
    Jan Mark

  • The Oxford Book of Schooldays
    Mary Cadogan

  • Robert Louis Stevenson
    Frank McLynn

  • A Slender Reputation
    Kathleen Hale

  • Bill Peet - An Autobiography
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