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BfK No. 92 - May 1995

Cover Story
This month's front cover features Nick Butterworth's All Together Now! (see Authorgraph for details). The book is published by HarperCollins and we thank them for their help in using this illustration.

BfK No. 92 Articles

Editorial – May 1995

News and comment from the Editor.
Protocols of Reading: The Little Books of Beatrix Potter

Margaret Meek on what children could learn from the 'little books'.
Books into Art

Chris Chivers on the way in which children's reading and children's artwork interact.
Authorgraph No.92: Nick Butterworth

Nick Butterworth interviewed by Stephanie Nettell
Partners in a Dance

Philip Pullman on his enthusiasm for the graphic novel.
Choosing an Atlas

Colin Harris recommends atlases for Key Stage 1 through to Key Stage 4.
Lapping It Up

Ted Percy selects some of 1995's Spring picture books.
BfK Briefing – May 1995

News * Publications * Awards
Books for Babies

Tony Bradman chooses books for babies and the very young.

All Children's Book Reviews in BfK No. 92

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

Under 5s

  • Grandad Pot
    Siobhan Dodds

  • Slinky Malinki, Open the Door
    Lynley Dodd

  • Quentin Blake's Nursery Rhyme Book
    Quentin Blake

  • I Can't Get to Sleep
    Frank Rodgers

Ages 5-8

  • Games; Measure; Patterns; Shapes
    Ivan Bulloch

  • Bags of Poems: Family Album

  • Come Back, Grandma
    Sue Limb

  • Martha Speaks
    Susan Meddaugh

  • Beware the Killer Coat
    Susan Gates
    Josip Lizatovic

  • Addy the Baddy
    Margaret Joy

  • The Jessame Stories
    Julia Jarman

  • Gilly the Kid
    Adèle Geras

  • Fox on Stage
    James Marshall

  • The Magic Bicycle
    Brian Patten

  • The Day it Rained in Colours
    Roy Etherton

  • Real Sisters
    Susan Wright

  • In Search of the Hidden Giant
    Jeanne Willis

  • Elizabeth, Larry and Ed
    Marilyn Sadler

  • Island Baby

  • A Squash and a Squeeze
    Julia Donaldson

  • Jess Was the Brave One
    Jean Little

Ages 8-10

  • Counting; Temperature
    Brenda Walpole

  • Ears; Eyes
    Stephen Savage

  • Attila the Bluebottle and more wild stories
    Colin Thompson

  • A Ruby, a Rug and a Prince Called Doug
    Kaye Umansky

  • The Mystery of the House of Pigeons
    Subhadra Sengupta
    Tapas Guha

  • Piglet in a Playpen
    Lucy Daniels
    Shelagh McNicholas

  • Puppy Fat
    Morris Gleitzman

  • Snoggers

  • Winni Allfours
    Babette Cole

  • Flashback: The Amazing Adventures of a Film Horse
    Gillian Rubinstein

  • Granny
    Anthony Horowitz

  • Sticky Beak
    Morris Gleitzman

  • Cliffhanger
    Jacqueline Wilson

  • Stanley Bagshaw and the Ice-cream Ghost
    Bob Wilson

  • The Big Chance
    Rob Childs

  • Lucy Jane and the Russian Ballet
    Susan Hampshire
    Honey De Lacey

  • A Boy and His Bear
    Harriet Graham

  • In the Money
    Helen Dunmore

  • No Friend of Mine
    Ann Turnbull

Ages 10-14

  • George Eastman and Kodak; Bill Gates and Microsoft
    Peter Brooke-Ball

  • Eating Disorders
    Kate Haycock

  • Global Cities; Town Life
    Philip Parker

  • What Makes a Bruegel a Bruegel?; What Makes a Degas a Degas?; What Makes a Monet a Monet?; What Makes a Raphael a Raphael?; What Makes a Rembrandt a Rembrandt?; What Makes a Van Gogh a Van Gogh?
    Richard Muhlberger

  • The World of Music
    Nicola Barber
    Mary Mure

  • Mary Queen of Scots; Queen Victoria
    Sheila Watson

  • Bonnie Fitch
    Lynda Waterhouse

  • The Strollers
    Lesley Beake

  • The Amazing Witherspoon's Amazing Circus Crew
    Andrew Gibson
    Chris Riddell

  • The Forestwife
    Theresa Tomlinson

  • Vampire Stories to Tell in the Dark
    Anthony Masters

  • Bring in the Spring
    Hannah Cole

  • Killing the Demons
    Jay Ashton

  • Ice Magic; Tackle Without a Team
    Matt Christopher

  • Uncle Albert and the Quantum Quest
    Russell Stannard
    John Levers

  • Bullies at School
    Theresa Breslin
    Scoular Anderson

  • Prices
    David McRobbie

  • Zlata's Diary
    Zlata Filipovic

  • Angel Face
    Narinder Dhami

  • The Rope School
    Sam Llewellyn

  • Are You Talking to Me?
    Mairwen Jones
    John Spink

  • Operation Gadgetman!
    Malorie Blackman
    Derek Brazell

  • Our Universe - a guide to what’s out there
    Russell Stannard

Ages 14+

  • Magician
    Allan Baillie

  • Tommy Granite
    Jay Ravendale

Books About Children's Books

  • The Prose and the Passion

  • Behold the Child
    Gillian Avery

  • An Introduction to Children’s Literature
    Peter Hunt

  • Children’s Literature in the 1890s and the 1990s
    Kimberley Reynolds

  • About Children's Literature: A Coming of Age?

  • Not So Simple Picture Books
    Pam Baddeley
    Chris Eddershaw

  • On Being Literate; Learning to Read; The Cool Web
    Margaret Meek

  • The Penguin Book of Childhood
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