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BfK No. 94 - September 1995

Cover Story
This month's cover features Quentin Blake's illustration for the publication Wondercrump Poetry featured in this issue. Our thanks to Red Fox for their help with this cover.

BfK No. 94 Articles

Editorial – September 1995

News and comment from the Editor.
Wondercrump Poetry

Liccy Dahl describes how the Wondercrump Competition came about and Ophelia Dahl writes about her father.
Poetry the Wondercrump Way

John Lynch on writing poetry with the children of Handford Hall Primary School in Suffolk.
Series Titles - September 1995

Some of the latest chosen by Steve Rosson.
A Tale of Two Charlies

Julia Eccleshare talks to Lenny Henry.
Authorgraph No.94: Gareth Owen

Gareth Owen interviewed by Adrian Jackson.
Power to the Book People!

Mary Hoffman on the campaign to save our libraries.
One to One...

Shirley Hughes assesses the work of Alan Marks.
Letters to the Editor

Letters from BfK readers.
Speaking in Blossom

Jack Ousbey on recent poetry.
BfK Briefing – September 1995

News * Events * Obituary * Awards * Publications
Wodwo and After

Robert Hull on the Collected Animal Poems of Ted Hughes.

All Children's Book Reviews in BfK No. 94

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

Under 5s

  • Spot's Walk in the Woods
    Eric Hill

  • Foxy Loses His Tail; Runaway Washing; My Perfect Pet
    Colin Hawkins
    Jacqui Hawkins

  • Action Songs

  • Lazy Jack
    Val Biro

  • The Best-Loved Bear
    Diana Noonan

Ages 5-8

  • A Treasury of Funny Stories

  • Morris the Mouse Hunter ¦ Morris in the Apple Tree
    Vivian French

  • The Black and White Cat
    Deborah King

  • Communication
    Aliki

  • The Littlest Dinosaur
    Terrance Dicks

  • Something Else
    Kathryn Cave

  • Horrid Henry and Other Stories
    Francesca Simon

  • The Singing Tortoise
    John Yeoman

  • A Bad Case of Animal Nonsense
    Jonathan Allen

  • 3 Billy Goats Gruff
    Ted Dewan

  • Mummy Laid an Egg!
    Babette Cole

  • The Day Matt Sold Great-grandma
    Eleanor Allen

  • The Beast with a Thousand Teeth
    Terry Jones

  • A Fish of the World
    Terry Jones

  • Too Tired
    Ann Turnbull

  • Jellybaby and other Problem Pets
    Linda Jennings

  • All the Magic in the World
    Wendy Hartmann

  • Twin Trouble
    Jacqueline Wilson

  • Good Girl Granny
    Pat Thomson
    Faith Jaques

  • Cat's Knees and Bee's Whiskers
    Sandy Nightingale

  • Boots for a Bridesmaid; Are We There Yet?
    Verna Wilkins

  • The School Bus Comes at Eight O'Clock
    David McKee

  • Flowers; Soil; Insects; Trees
    Karen Bryant-Mole

  • Ant; Rabbit; Duck; Seagull
    Stephen Savage

Ages 8-10

  • Annelie in the Depths of the Night
    Imme Dros

  • A Treasury of Funny Stories

  • Children of Bach
    Eilis Dillon

  • Timesnatch
    Robert Swindells

  • War Game
    Michael Foreman

  • Benjamin Franklin's Adventures with Electricity
    Beverly Birch
    Robin Bell Corfield

  • France; The U.S.A.
    Ed Needham

  • Airport; Hotel
    Philippa Perry
    Stephen Gibbs

  • My Tudor Home; My Victorian Home
    Karen Bryant-Mole

  • Orson Cart and the Shipwreck Sharks; Orson Cart Saves Time
    Steve Donald

  • The Real Porky Phillips
    Mark Haddon

  • Stories for Bedtime
    Adèle Geras

  • The Revolting Baby
    Mary Hooper

  • Silly Stories
    Andrew Matthews

  • Rosie Pugh and the Great Clothes War
    Caroline Castle

  • Patrick and the Rotten Roman Rubbish
    Norma Clarke

  • Ride On, Sister Vincent
    Dyan Sheldon

  • Always Adam
    Sheldon Oberman

  • Memoirs of a Dangerous Alien
    Maggie Prince

  • The Fantora Family Photographs
    Adèle Geras

  • Not Yeti
    Alan Gibbons

Ages 10-14

  • The Easter Rising; The French Revolution
    Richard Killeen

  • Bangladesh; Brazil; Ghana; China
    Steve Brace

  • The Atlas of Endangered Peoples; The Atlas of Endangered Resources
    Steve Pollock

  • Marconi's Battle for Radio; Benjamin Franklin and Static Electricity; The Lumière Brothers and the Cinema
    Beverly Birch
    Robin Bell Corfield

  • Time Loft
    Clare Cooper

  • The Wild Boy and Queen Moon
    K M Peyton

  • Mennyms in the Wilderness
    Sylvia Waugh

  • Shadowmaker
    Joan Lowery Nixon

  • Second Childhood
    Morris Gleitzman

  • Tangled Fortunes
    Margaret Mahy

  • The Haunting of Jessica Raven
    Ann Halam

  • The Baby and Fly Pie
    Melvin Burgess

  • Secrets Never to be Told
    Cathie Bartlam

  • Monkey Island
    Paula Fox

  • Galax Arena
    Gillian Rubinstein

Ages 14+

  • If Only I'd Known
    Jenny Davis

  • Stone Cold
    Robert Swindells

  • Uncle Vampire
    Cynthia D Grant

  • The Shuttered Room
    Christine Purkis

  • Parkland
    Victor Kelleher
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