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BfK No. 96 - January 1996

Cover Story
The January cover of BfK features an illustration from No More Television!, the latest title from Philippe Dupasquier who is the subject of this month's Authorgraph. The book is published by Andersen Press and we're grateful to them for their help in using this on our front cover.

BfK No. 96 Articles

Editorial – January 1996

News and comment from the Editor.
Flashbacks

Susan Price on a new historical fiction series.
Margaret Mahy’s Fairy Tale Universe

Nicholas Tucker looks at the novels of Margaret Mahy.
Series Titles - January 1996

Some of the latest chosen by Steve Rosson.
Authorgraph No.96: Philippe Dupasquier

Philippe Dupasquier interviewed by Chris Powling.
Balancing the Books

Julia Eccleshare on the fast-altering world of children's publishing.
I’m Committed to Peace, Are You?

Beverley Naidoo talks about her novel No Turning Back.
After the Net Book Agreement…

Louis Baum assesses the market.
Book People: Gina Pollinger

David Morton describes the work of Gina Pollinger.
BfK Briefing – January 1996

News * Awards * Events
Writing from the Heart

Margaret Clark chooses some of the latest hardbacks.

All Children's Book Reviews in BfK No. 96

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

Under 5s

  • Say Please
    Virginia Austin

  • Goldilocks and the Three Bears
    Prue Theobalds

  • The Tangleweed Troll
    Cliff Wright

  • Harry's Stormy Night
    Una Leavy

  • First Snow
    Kim Lewis

  • It's a Perfect Night
    Abigail Pizer

  • The Snow Angel
    Angela McAllister

  • Off to School
    Jean Chapman

  • Benny the Breakdown Truck
    Keren Ludlow
    Willie Smax

  • First Steps
    John Burningham

  • The Wild Woods
    Simon James

  • The Butterfly Kiss
    Marcial Bóo

  • Farmer Duck
    Martin Waddell

Ages 5-8

  • Measuring; Number Play; Numbers; Patterns; Shapes; Sorting; Maths Curse
    David Kirkby

  • Animals; The Body; Keeping in Touch; Plants
    Nicola Edwards
    Zul Mukhida

  • You'll Never Walk Alone

  • Swapper
    Robert Leeson

  • Best Friends Forever
    Kathryn Cave

  • The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig
    Eugene Trivizas

  • The Little Vampire Meets Count Dracula
    Angela Sommer-Bodenburg

  • Mouse Time
    Rumer Godden

  • Starlight, Starbright!

  • Rhode Island Roy; Welcome Home, Barney; Pipe Down, Prudle!; We Want William
    Rose Impey

  • The Disastrous Dog
    Penelope Lively

  • Get Set, Georgette!
    Alice Dumas

  • The Green Banana Hunt
    Jenny Bent

  • The Queen's Knickers
    Nicholas Allan

  • Peter and the Wolf

  • Pass It, Polly
    Sarah Garland

  • Frog and the Stranger
    Max Velthuijs

  • Noah's Ark
    Jane Ray

  • Monster Poems

  • Smoke Cat
    Linda Newbery

Ages 8-10

  • Explorers of the Ancient World; Viking Explorers
    Anthony Brierley

  • Night Creatures
    Malcolm Penny

  • Power and Glory
    Emily Rodda

  • Taller Than Before
    Bernard Ashley
    Judith Lawton

  • The Foxbury Force
    Graham Oakley

  • Griffin's Castle
    Jenny Nimmo

  • The Boy and the Cloth of Dreams
    Jenny Koralek

  • Rumpus on the Roof
    Hazel Townson

  • The Minstrel and the Dragon Pup
    Rosemary Sutcliff

  • Sophie is Seven
    Dick King-Smith

  • Fizzy Steals the Show
    Michael Coleman

  • Jumble
    Kathryn Cave

  • The New Puffin Book of Funny Verse

  • School
    Colin Hawkins
    Jacqui Hawkins

  • Blitz
    Robert Westall

  • Cautionary Verses
    Hilaire Belloc

  • Flow
    Pippa Goodhart

  • The Daydreamer
    Ian McEwan

Ages 10-14

  • The Young Oxford Book of Cinema
    David Parkinson

  • The Russian Revolution; Revolution in Europe 1989
    Adrian Gilbert

  • The Usborne Computer Dictionary for Beginners
    Anna Claybourne

  • The Wonderful Story of Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp
    Philip Pullman

  • The Kidnapping of Suzie Q
    Catherine Sefton

  • Maniac Magee
    Jerry Spinelli

  • Ghost Dance
    Susan Price

  • A Cageful of Butterflies
    Lesley Beake

  • Wyvern Summer
    Toby Forward

  • Deadly Dare
    Malorie Blackman

  • Night Fires
    Joan Lingard

  • Snowbird Winter
    Sue Welford

  • Claire's Conquests
    Bette Paul

  • Walk Two Moons
    Sharon Creech

  • The Eye of the Horse
    Jamila Gavin

  • Green Willow's Secret
    Eileen Dunlop

  • Friends and Enemies

  • The Candle Man
    Catherine Fisher

  • Living Famously
    Melissa Bell
    Jason Herbison

  • Point Crime: The Beat
    David Belbin

  • The Brontë Girls
    Garry Kilworth

  • Weather Eye
    Lesley Howarth

  • True Ghost Stories
    Terry Deary

  • The Coming of the Surfman
    Peter Collington

  • Amazing Adventure Stories; Fantastic Space Stories

  • The Oxford Book of Scary Tales

Ages 14+

  • Cuckoo in the Nest
    Michelle Magorian

  • Falling into Glory
    Robert Westall

  • Elfgift
    Susan Price

  • When She Hollers
    Cynthia Voigt

  • The Slayer of Shadows
    Elana Bregin

  • Skindeep
    Toeckey Jones

  • Watchers at the Shrine
    Jean Ure

  • To Trust a Soldier
    Nick Warburton
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