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BfK No. 89 - November 1994

Cover Story
Our cover this month features King Kong, Anthony Browne’s new picture book published by Julie MacRae, to whom we’re most grateful for help in using this illustration.

BfK No. 89 Articles

Editorial – November 1994

News and comment from the Editor.
Beasties and Ghosties and Things that Go BUMP on the Page!

A spooky round-up by Jill Burridge.
Tomb It May Concern

Colin and Jacqui Hawkins, with help from a Ghost writer (they say), describe a typical working day.
Christopher Pike - Master Of Murder

Jonathan Weir, a self-confessed diehard fan, tells us why he's so hooked,
Authorgraph No.89: Susan Price

Susan Price interviewed by George Hunt.
Pointless Horror?

Steve Rosson examines the genre.
Capturing Kong

Anthony Browne on his new picture book.
OP Plea: Ghost in the Water

Val Randall continues our series on favourite books which have gone out of print.
Giving Them the Creeps

Adèle Geras and Jenny Nimmo describe their latest books… and their own approach to the supernatural.

 
BfK Briefing – November 1994

News * Awards * Publications * Events
Have Yourself a Very Creepy Christmas...

Chris Powling selects three creepy Christmas books.

All Children's Book Reviews in BfK No. 89

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

Under 5s

  • Meg and Mog
    Helen Nicoll

  • Will There Be Polar Bears?
    Julia Jarman

  • I Don't Want To!
    Sally Grindley

  • Where's That Bus?
    Eileen Browne

  • New BIG Sister; New BIG House
    Debi Gliori

  • Buster's Day
    Rod Campbell

  • A Roar for Stanley
    Phil McMylor

  • The Most Obedient Dog in the World
    Anita Jeram

Ages 5-8

  • Circles and Spheres; Squares and Cubes
    Sally Morgan

  • Float and Sink; Light
    Maria Gordon

  • I Love Guinea-Pigs; Spider Watching
    Dick King-Smith

  • The Enchanted Horse
    Magdalen Nabb

  • Gruesome Twosome: Pirates and Monsters
    Colin Hawkins
    Jacqui Hawkins

  • Count Munch
    Michael Salmon

  • I Spy Animals in Art
    Lucy Micklethwait

  • Buster
    Linda Jennings

  • My Little Brother
    Debi Gliori

  • Will There Be Polar Bears?
    Julia Jarman

  • Hurray for Monty Ray!
    Sam McBratney

  • Charlie the Champion Liar; Disaster Bag
    Hazel Townson

  • Haddock
    Jan Mark

  • The Princess Trick
    Alexander McCall Smith

  • Cric Crac
    Grace Hallworth

  • Horse Pie
    Dick King-Smith

  • Grandpa Chatterji
    Jamila Gavin

  • Animal Stories
    Julia Eccleshare

  • The Princess and the Frog
    Jonathan Langley

  • The Snow Maze
    Jan Mark

  • You're a Hero, Daley B!
    Jon Blake

  • Dear Bear
    Joanna Harrison

  • Hurricane Betsey
    Malorie Blackman

  • Monster's Terrible Toothache; Monster and Frog Get Fit
    Rose Impey

  • I Want To Be
    Tony Ross

Ages 8-10

  • The Bayeux Tapestry
    Norman Denny

  • Newspapers; Post Office
    Philippa Perry
    Stephen Gibbs

  • Seaside Town
    Neil Thomson

  • The Worst Witch; The Worst Witch Strikes Again; A Bad Spell for the Worst Witch
    Jill Murphy

  • A Web of Stories
    Grace Hallworth

  • My Grandmother's Stories
    Adèle Geras

  • Non-stop Nonsense Singapore Style; Opus Britannica
    Stephanie McGurk

  • Wondercrump Poetry!
    Jennifer Curry

  • Billy Pink's Private Detective Agency
    Garry Kilworth

  • Amber Brown is not a crayon
    Paula Danziger

  • The Revolting Wedding
    Mary Hooper

  • The Animal Parade
    Dick King-Smith

  • Jonah, a Whale of a Tale
    John Ryan

  • The Scribblers of Scumbagg School
    Wes Magee

  • Naughtiest Stories
    Barbara Ireson

  • The Fright; Who's Talking?
    Jean Ure

  • Jolly Roger
    Colin McNaughton

Ages 10-14

  • The Most Amazing Pop-Up Science Book
    Jay Young

  • Balls, Bangs and Flashes ¦ Germs, Jabs and Laughing Gas ¦ Whirrs, Watts and Whooshes
    Meredith Hooper

  • The London Bus and Tube Book
    Nicola Baxter

  • The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
    R L Stevenson

  • Vlad the Drac
    Ann Jungman

  • The Place Between
    Hugh Scott

  • The Mennyms
    Sylvia Waugh

  • The Electric Kid
    Garry Kilworth

  • The House of Rats
    Stephen Elboz

  • The Rope Carrier
    Theresa Tomlinson

  • Shiloh
    Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

  • The Giver
    Lois Lowry

  • The Silence Trap
    Gloria Whelan

  • Roundabout
    Gene Kemp

  • The Iron Woman
    Ted Hughes

  • The Magic Apostrophe
    Jenny Sullivan

  • The White Nights of St Petersburg
    Geoffrey Trease

  • I Know an Old Lady ... a funny sort of joke book
    Brough Girling

  • The Writing on the Wall
    Terence Copley

  • In Deep Water
    Michelle Magorian

  • Underrunners
    Margaret Mahy

  • Coming Down to Earth
    Susan Price

Ages 14+

  • Frankenstein
    Mary Shelley

  • The Song of Gail and Fludd
    Philip Gross

  • Plex
    Philip Gross

  • Virtual Sexual Reality
    Chloë Rayban

  • White Out
    Anthony Masters

  • Letters from the Inside
    John Marsden

  • The Cool Boffin
    Pete Johnson

  • The Tin Princess
    Philip Pullman
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