Richard Hill

Profile

Richard Hill has spent all his working life in publishing. After a degree in History at LSE, a PGSE at Avery Hill and a year of teaching in primary schools in south east London, Richard joined Penguin Books in 1969. Later he became head of the Children’s Marketing Department where, with colleagues, he became heavily involved in the school bookshop movement. Richard joined the School Bookshop Association in 1979 as managing director and was the co-founder of Books for Keeps with Pat Triggs.

Articles

Editorial – November 1996	BfK No. 101 (November 1996)	News and comment from the Editor.
Editorial – July 1992	BfK No. 75 (July 1992)	News and comment from the Editor.
Editorial – May 1992	BfK No. 74 (May 1992)	News and comment from the Editor.
Editor's Page - July 1989	BfK No. 57 (July 1989)	News and comment from the Editor.
Editor's Page - May 1989	BfK No. 56 (May 1989)	News and comment from the Editor.
Editor's Page - September 1988	BfK No. 52 (September 1988)	News and comment from the Editor.
Sound and Vision - September 1988	BfK No. 52 (September 1988)	A round-up of forthcoming tie-ins.
Editor's Page - July 1988	BfK No. 51 (July 1988)	News and comment from the Editor.
Information Please: Books and Computers	BfK No. 22 (September 1983)	Peter Usborne explores the Micro Jungle Terry Downie reports on choosing which books to buy Neil Ardley discusses present problems and future prospects as a writer of Computer books.
SBA Services & Publications	BfK No. 7 (March 1981)
The Importance of Stories	BfK No. 1 (March 1980)	Richard Hill invites you to reflect.
The School Bookshop Association Revamped	BfK No. 1 (March 1980)	Pat Triggs and Richard Hilll outline new thinking about the School Bookshop Association.
Welcome to Books for Keeps!	BfK No. 1 (March 1980)

Reviews

Midwinterblood	Reviewed in BfK No. 191 (November 2011)
Muhammad Ali – fifteen rounds with the greatest ¦ Charles Dickens – Hard Times and Great Expectations ¦ John Lennon- the story of the original Beatle ¦ J.K. Rowling – the mystery of fiction	Reviewed in BfK No. 190 (September 2011)
Caddy’s World	Reviewed in BfK No. 190 (September 2011)
Mega Mash-Up: Robots v Gorillas in the Desert ¦ Mega Mash-Up: Romans v Dinosaurs on Mars	Reviewed in BfK No. 189 (July 2011)
Bad Day	Reviewed in BfK No. 189 (July 2011)
A Little Bit of Mischief	Reviewed in BfK No. 187 (March 2011)
Wood Angel	Reviewed in BfK No. 187 (March 2011)
Mbobo Tree	Reviewed in BfK No. 187 (March 2011)
Dodo doo-doo	Reviewed in BfK No. 187 (March 2011)
Instructions	Reviewed in BfK No. 185 (November 2010)
The Cabinet of Curiosities	Reviewed in BfK No. 185 (November 2010)
Dustbin Cat	Reviewed in BfK No. 185 (November 2010)
The Cardturner	Reviewed in BfK No. 185 (November 2010)
Look Out Leon	Reviewed in BfK No. 184 (September 2010)
Ants in Your Pants!	Reviewed in BfK No. 184 (September 2010)
Spoilt Rotten: the Toxic Cult of Sentimentality	Reviewed in BfK No. 184 (September 2010)
Gracie the Lighthouse Cat	Reviewed in BfK No. 184 (September 2010)
The Routledge Companion to Children’s Literature	Reviewed in BfK No. 184 (September 2010)
Mary’s Penny	Reviewed in BfK No. 184 (September 2010)
Troubadour	Reviewed in BfK No. 183 (July 2010)
Lies	Reviewed in BfK No. 183 (July 2010)
Bedtime	Reviewed in BfK No. 183 (July 2010)
Me, Myself and I: All About Sex and Puberty	Reviewed in BfK No. 183 (July 2010)
Beautiful Malice	Reviewed in BfK No. 183 (July 2010)
Beads, Boys and Bangles	Reviewed in BfK No. 183 (July 2010)
The Lambton Curse	Reviewed in BfK No. 183 (July 2010)
Girl, 16: Five-Star Fiasco	Reviewed in BfK No. 183 (July 2010)
Kisses for Lula	Reviewed in BfK No. 183 (July 2010)
Losing It	Reviewed in BfK No. 183 (July 2010)
The Last Summer of the Death Warriors	Reviewed in BfK No. 183 (July 2010)
The Glass Demon	Reviewed in BfK No. 183 (July 2010)
The General	Reviewed in BfK No. 181 (March 2010)
The King and the Seed	Reviewed in BfK No. 181 (March 2010)
Return to the Hundred Acre Wood	Reviewed in BfK No. 181 (March 2010)
My First Book of Garden Bugs	Reviewed in BfK No. 181 (March 2010)
The Man Who Lost His Head	Reviewed in BfK No. 181 (March 2010)
Remembering Green	Reviewed in BfK No. 181 (March 2010)
The Wickedest Witch	Reviewed in BfK No. 181 (March 2010)
The Wild Things	Reviewed in BfK No. 181 (March 2010)
Out of the Woods	Reviewed in BfK No. 181 (March 2010)
Day by Day by Me	Reviewed in BfK No. 181 (March 2010)
The Lark and the Laurel	Reviewed in BfK No. 181 (March 2010)
Esty’s Gold	Reviewed in BfK No. 181 (March 2010)
Halo	Reviewed in BfK No. 181 (March 2010)
Crocodile Tears	Reviewed in BfK No. 181 (March 2010)
Energy Revolution: Climate change and our post-carbon future	Reviewed in BfK No. 181 (March 2010)
Daughter of Fire and Ice	Reviewed in BfK No. 181 (March 2010)
Sacred Scars	Reviewed in BfK No. 181 (March 2010)
The Private Diaries of Alison Uttley	Reviewed in BfK No. 181 (March 2010)
The Terrible Plop	Reviewed in BfK No. 181 (March 2010)
Grandma Comes to Stay ¦ Deron Goes to Nursery School	Reviewed in BfK No. 181 (March 2010)
Yummy	Reviewed in BfK No. 181 (March 2010)
Mum and Dad Glue	Reviewed in BfK No. 181 (March 2010)
Pea Boy and other stories from Iran	Reviewed in BfK No. 181 (March 2010)
Insect Detective	Reviewed in BfK No. 181 (March 2010)
Bram Stoker’s Dracula	Reviewed in BfK No. 181 (March 2010)
The Kites Are Flying!	Reviewed in BfK No. 181 (March 2010)
The Wainscott Weasel	Reviewed in BfK No. 181 (March 2010)
I Spy: The Constantinople Caper	Reviewed in BfK No. 181 (March 2010)
Don Quixote	Reviewed in BfK No. 181 (March 2010)
Lydia’s Tin Lid Drum	Reviewed in BfK No. 181 (March 2010)
Hamzat’s Journey: A Refugee Diary	Reviewed in BfK No. 181 (March 2010)
Fortune Cookie	Reviewed in BfK No. 181 (March 2010)
Witch & Wizard	Reviewed in BfK No. 181 (March 2010)
Hell’s Heroes	Reviewed in BfK No. 181 (March 2010)
Leviathan	Reviewed in BfK No. 181 (March 2010)
Paradise Red	Reviewed in BfK No. 181 (March 2010)
Rich and Mad	Reviewed in BfK No. 181 (March 2010)
We Were Young and at War	Reviewed in BfK No. 181 (March 2010)
Illustrated Children’s Books	Reviewed in BfK No. 181 (March 2010)
The Wide-Mouthed Frog	Reviewed in BfK No. 181 (March 2010)
Dennis Duckling ¦ Where is Poppy’s Panda?	Reviewed in BfK No. 181 (March 2010)
Little Miss Muffet and other rhymes	Reviewed in BfK No. 181 (March 2010)
Miko’s Magic Number	Reviewed in BfK No. 181 (March 2010)
Azad's Camel	Reviewed in BfK No. 181 (March 2010)
Yucky Worms	Reviewed in BfK No. 181 (March 2010)
Quicksilver	Reviewed in BfK No. 181 (March 2010)
Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland ¦ Alice in Wonderland	Reviewed in BfK No. 181 (March 2010)
The Great Hamster Massacre	Reviewed in BfK No. 181 (March 2010)
The Raven Mysteries, Book 2: Ghosts and Gadgets	Reviewed in BfK No. 181 (March 2010)
Umpteen Pockets: New and Collected Poems for Children	Reviewed in BfK No. 181 (March 2010)
The Lightning Key	Reviewed in BfK No. 181 (March 2010)
Cars: A pop-up book of automobiles	Reviewed in BfK No. 181 (March 2010)
Salem Brownstone – All Along the Watchtowers	Reviewed in BfK No. 181 (March 2010)
Thief!	Reviewed in BfK No. 181 (March 2010)
Time Quake	Reviewed in BfK No. 181 (March 2010)
The Battle of the Sun	Reviewed in BfK No. 181 (March 2010)
Inside	Reviewed in BfK No. 181 (March 2010)
Evermore	Reviewed in BfK No. 181 (March 2010)
Hunger	Reviewed in BfK No. 181 (March 2010)
What’s the Time, Mr Wolf? ¦ Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star	Reviewed in BfK No. 181 (March 2010)
This is my Book	Reviewed in BfK No. 181 (March 2010)
One Smart Fish	Reviewed in BfK No. 181 (March 2010)
The Comic Strip History of Space	Reviewed in BfK No. 180 (January 2010)
New and Collected Poems for Children	Reviewed in BfK No. 180 (January 2010)
The 1920s ¦ The 1970s	Reviewed in BfK No. 57 (July 1989)
Books for Hallowe'en - Books for Keeps’ selection of Hallowe'en titles.	Reviewed in BfK No. ()