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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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