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BfK No. 90 - January 1995

Cover Story
This month's cover features Jean Ure's new book Faces at the Window (see the Jean Ure Authorgraph) with a photograph by Oliver Hunter. The book is published by Corgi Freeway and we are grateful to Transworld Publishers for their help in using this illustration.

BfK No. 90 Articles

Editorial – January 1995

News and comment from the Editor.
...Meanwhile, in the Teenagers’ Reading Corner...

David Bennett on teenage reading habits.
Authorgraph No.90: Jean Ure

Jean Ure interviewed by Linda Newbery.
Sweet Valley High in SE7

Sally Saunders meets Francine Pascal and fans.
Writer Reply: No Forum for Teenage Fiction

Peggy Woodford on the lack of review space given to teenage fiction.
Let’s Talk About Sex

Stephanie Nettell interviews Robie H Harris about her new book for Walker.
Facts for the Teenage Life

Val Randall on sex information books.
BfK Briefing – January 1995

News * Awards * Obituaries * Publications
Child into Adult

Julia Eccleshare chooses fiction for teenagers.

All Children's Book Reviews in BfK No. 90

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

Under 5s

  • Will There Be Polar Bears?
    Julia Jarman

  • Owl Babies
    Martin Waddell

  • Starring Fred and Ursulina
    Suzy-Jane Tanner

  • Crocodile Capers; Crocodile Party
    Susanna Gretz

Ages 5-8

  • Dance of the Sacred Circle
    Kristina Rodanas

  • Finn's Animal
    Catherine Storr
    Paul Howard

  • Singing Down the Breadfruit and other poems
    Pauline Stewart

  • Charlie Anderson
    Barbara Abercrombie
    Mark Graham

  • Emily and the Golden Acorn
    Ian Beck

  • Just Bears

  • Stormy Weather
    Amanda Harvey

  • The Story of the Little Mole who knew it was None of his Business
    Werner Holzwarth

  • One Stormy Night
    Ruth Brown

  • Jackdaw
    Ann Cartwright
    Reg Cartwright

  • Shadow the Deer
    Theresa Radcliffe

  • The Three-Legged Cat
    Margaret Mahy
    Jonathan Allen

  • Othergran
    Vivien Alcock

  • Papa Lucky's Shadow
    Niki Daly

  • It Came Through the Wall!
    Tim Healey
    Tony Ross

  • The Bear Under the Stairs
    Helen Cooper

  • Frog in Winter
    Max Velthuijs

  • The Paper Princess
    Elisa Kleven

  • Elmer on Stilts
    David McKee

  • Will There Be Polar Bears?
    Julia Jarman

Ages 8-10

  • Stamp Collecting
    Neill Granger

  • Your Living Home; Your Wild Neighbourhood
    Philip Parker

  • The Great Recycling Adventure: a lift-the-flap look at old things made new
    Jan McHarry

  • Castle
    Richard Platt

  • Magic
    Jon Day

  • The Great Buffalo Race
    Barbara Juster Esbensen

  • The Witches and the Singing Mice
    Jenny Nimmo

  • Dinotopia
    James Gurney

  • Your Mother Was a Neanderthal
    Jon Scieszka

  • A Trunkful of Elephants
    Judith Nicholls

  • Hi There, Supermouse!
    Jean Ure

  • The Big Prize
    Rob Childs

  • The Haunting of Pip Parker
    Anne Fine

  • The Finger Eater; The Merrythought
    Dick King-Smith

  • Desert December
    Dorian Haarhoff

  • The Ghost of Joseph Grey
    Jon Blake

  • The Stealing of Queen Victoria
    Shirley Isherwood
    George Buchanan

  • Dimanche Dillar
    Henrietta Branford

  • A Caribou Journey
    Debbie S Miller

  • Carrot Tops and Cotton Tails
    Jan Mark
    Tony Ross

  • Spider, the Horrible Cat
    Nanette Newman

  • The Church Mice and the Ring
    Graham Oakley

  • Them and Us

  • Great Grandfather's House
    Rumer Godden
    Valerie Littlewood

  • Home in the Sky
    Jeannie Baker

  • Running Battles
    Kathryn Cave

  • The Boggart
    Susan Cooper

  • West African Trickster Tales

Ages 10-14

  • Dictionary of the Earth
    John Farndon

  • Life in the Freezer
    Alastair Fothergill

  • How Do We Know Animals Can Think?
    Steve Parker

  • Freak 1: Through the Lightning Gate; Freak 2: Death and the Lizard Man
    Jim Eldridge

  • Nightjohn
    Gary Paulsen

  • Bonnie Dundee
    Rosemary Sutcliff

  • Here's to You, Rachel Robinson
    Judy Blume

  • Groosham Grange
    Anthony Horowitz

  • The War of Jenkins' Ear
    Michael Morpurgo

  • Talking to Strangers
    Anne Cassidy

  • Somewhere in the Darkness
    Walter Dean Myers

  • The Snowman Who Couldn't Melt
    Paul Stewart

  • Death Penalty
    Dennis Hamley

  • Kezzie
    Theresa Breslin

  • Korean Folk-tales

  • An Angel for May
    Melvin Burgess

  • The Magnificent Callisto
    Gerard Benson

  • Jim Ugly
    Sid Fleischman
    Marc Vyvyan-Jones

  • The Other Facts Of Life
    Morris Gleitzman

  • Hexwood
    Diana Wynne Jones

  • Someone Came Knocking
    Anne Merrick

Ages 14+

  • When You Can't Say No
    Sylvia Hall

  • In Sickness and In Health
    Jennifer Baker

  • The Split
    Angela Dracup

  • The Roads Are Down
    Vanessa Spence

  • Riot
    Peter Beere
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