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BfK No. 97 - March 1996

Cover Story
The March cover of BfK features Dilly the Dinosaur who is 10 years old this year. Her author, Tony Bradman, is the subject of our Authorgraph this month. We are grateful to Reed Books for their help in reproducing this illustration from Susan Hellard's original artwork.

BfK No. 97 Articles

Editorial – March 1996

News and comment from the Editor.
Poetry for Children - Ten Questions and Some Answers

Philippa Milnes-Smith looks at the current state of children's poetry.
Authorgraph No.97: Tony Bradman

Tony Bradman interviewed by Stephanie Nettell.
Author-ising Your School

Liz Fincham on making the most of a visiting writer.
Writer Reply: The Librarian's Lament

An impersonation by Anne Fine.
Red Letter Days

David Bennett on anthologising.
Game, Set... and Literature

Robert Hull assesses current sports books.
BfK Briefing - March 1996

News * Publications * Obituary * Awards * Letters to the Editor
Verse Trails

Some selections from BfK's forthcoming guide: Poetry 0-13.

All Children's Book Reviews in BfK No. 97

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

Under 5s

  • Jamaica and Brianna
    Juanita Havill

  • One by One; Crazy ABC
    Judy Hindley

  • Belinda's Balloon
    Emilie Boon

  • Teddy and Rabbit's Muddy Bicycle ¦ Teddy and Rabbit's Picnic Outing

  • Bears, Bears and More Bears
    Jackie Morris

  • Beware Beware
    Susan Hill

  • When I Grow Bigger
    Trish Cooke

  • Ollie the Elephant
    Burny Bos

  • Billy Bumps Builds a Palace
    Korky Paul

Ages 5-8

  • The First Story Book Collection ¦ The Second Story Book Collection ¦ The Third Story Book Collection ¦ The Fourth Story Book Collection

  • The Salt and Pepper Boys
    Jean Wills

  • The Sea Horse
    Anthony Masters

  • Stories for Five-Year-Olds ¦ Stories for Six-Year-Olds

  • The Ginger Ninja ¦ The Return of Tiddles
    Shoo Rayner

  • Blackboard Bear
    Martha Alexander

  • The Late Arrivals ¦ Rainy Weather
    Mark Burgess

  • Lili at Ballet
    Rachel Isadora

  • Wet World
    Norma Simon

  • Chinye
    Obi Onyefulu
    Evie Safarewicz

  • The Megamogs
    Peter Haswell

  • Ahoy There, Little Polar Bear
    Hans De Beer

  • Hamish and the Fairy Gifts
    Moira Miller

  • Little Ted Lost; Oliver and the Big Green Snake
    Mary Howard
    Jan Godfrey

  • Stories by Firelight
    Shirley Hughes

  • Daisy-Head Mayzie
    Dr Seuss

  • I'm Scared
    Bel Mooney

  • A Walker Treasury of Animal Stories

  • Sheep Out to Eat
    Nancy Shaw

Ages 8-10

  • Thief!
    Malorie Blackman

  • The Winter Sleepwalker
    Joan Aiken

  • The Oxford Book of Story Poems
    Michael Harrison
    Christopher Stuart-Clark

  • The Cramp Twins
    Brian Wood

  • Orson Cart and the Magic Maze; Orson Cart and the Museum Mystery
    Steve Donald

  • Grandfather's Pencil and the Room of Stories
    Michael Foreman

  • Nobody's Dog
    Eleanor Watkins

  • The Witch Repair
    Marianne Macdonald

  • The Great Dinosaur Kidnap
    Tessa Krailing

  • Trace in Space
    Mary Hoffman

  • The Little Sea Horse
    Helen Cresswell

  • Put a Sock in it, Percy!
    Judy Corbalis

  • Darren the Sun God
    Brough Girling

  • Muck and Magic Stories from the Countryside
    Michael Morpurgo

  • Fat Chance
    Jacqueline Roy

  • Sorry for the Slug
    Jill Bennett

  • Voyage to Valhalla
    Robert Swindells

  • McMummy
    Betsy Byars

  • Everything Happens on Mondays
    Nichola Davies

  • The Sea Horse
    Anthony Masters

Ages 10-14

  • Henry Ford and Ford
    Michael Pollard

  • Tourism
    Roy Woodcock

  • A Young Person's Guide to Music
    Neil Ardley

  • Understanding Your Brain
    Rebecca Treays

  • Let's Talk About Sex-growing up, changing bodies, sex and sexual health
    Robie H Harris

  • Children Just Like Me
    Barnabas Anabel Kindersley

  • Animal Rights; The African Elephant; The Giant Panda
    Miles Barton

  • Wild Technology: the amazing natural origins of human inventions
    Phil Gates

  • The World's Top Ten Rivers
    Neil Morris
    Vanessa Card

  • My 1930s Home
    Karen Bryant-Mole

  • The Sherwood Hero
    Alison Prince

  • Classic Ghost Stories; Ghostly Haunts

  • The Alpha Box
    Annie Dalton

  • Baseball Saved Us
    Ken Mochizuki

  • Story of the Year
    Michael Cox
    Julie Anderson

  • The Phantom Piper
    Garry Kilworth

  • True Stories
    Anthony Masters

  • Children of the Wheel
    Pamela Scobie

  • The Secret Line
    William Corlett

  • Escape from The Temple of Laughter
    Jerome Fletcher

  • Cradlefasts
    William Mayne

  • My Family and Other Natural Disasters
    Josephine Feeney

  • The Falcon's Malteser
    Anthony Horowitz

  • The Eden Mission
    Anthony Wall

  • Roadkill - The Alliance
    Anthony Masters

  • Lockie Leonard, Human Torpedo; Lockie Leonard, Scumbuster
    Tim Winton

  • Waterbound
    Jane Stemp

  • Fantasy Stories
    Diana Wynne Jones

  • The Children Of Charlecote
    Philippa Pearce
    Brian Fairfax-Lucy

  • Scratch City
    Philip Gross

Ages 14+

  • The Good Book
    Alan Durant

  • Spirit of the Place
    Dennis Hamley

  • Hauntings; Supernatural Stories
    Susan Price

  • The First Time
    Nicholas Allan

  • Great! You've Just Ruined the Rest of My Life
    Yvonne Coppard

  • The Shouting Wind
    Linda Newbery

  • Deliver Us From Evie
    M E Kerr
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