Books For Keeps
  • Home
  • Reviews
  • Articles
  • Past Issues
  • Latest Issue
  • Authors and Artists
  • Latest News
  • Search
  • Menu Menu
March 1, 1983/in /by Richard Hill
This article is featured in BfK 19 March 1983
This article is in the Category

Extra Extra!

Author: Pat Triggs

Competition Winners

Signed copies of the Fungus the Bogeyman Plop Up Book and The BFG are already safely in the hands of (almost) all the winners of the competitions in November’s Extra.

Slimericks

Our young verse makers demonstrated a remarkably fine talent for nastiness and it was a close run thing deciding on the most fungoid.

Here they are.

There was an old Bogey called Grime

All covered in muck, sludge and slime

He fell in a bog

Came out green as a frog

So they sprayed him all over with pine

Frances Lewis, 8, Thorpe Hall School, Walthamstow, London.

A filthy old hag called Snot

She ate slimy old sarnies of grot

She drank mildewed wine

Burped and belched all the time

That grotty old hag called Snot

Terence Gallagher, 12, Halewood Comprehensive, Merseyside.

Our third winner sent no address.

BOZ GRODEN, AGED 7, WHERE ARE YOU?

We would like to know where to send your Plop Up Book prize for this Slimerick.

There was a young bogey called Snot

Who ate squashed flies quite a lot

He sucked slimey slugs

And nibbled stink bugs

That revolting fat bogey called Snot

A fine bit of art work from runner-up, Stephen Lewis, 11, Frodsham, Cheshire. And a special mention for Barnleigh Huggins for his ‘slime-textured kilt’.

Phizzwizards

We read some wild and wonderful dreams: fast rides on bikes and in cars, winning World Ice-Skating Championships in pink and white satin, flying like a bird, being strong enough to lift a house. Some dreams of being a superstar or a pop idol turned into nightmares of being mobbed, crushed and pursued. As Roald Dahl might have predicted, a good crop of Phizzwizards featured food – a land of crisps, grass made of French Fries, trousers stuffed full of sweets, magic apples that taste of whatever you want.

BFG winners were:

Lorraine Willcox, 9, Spalding, Lincs

Stuart Wilmer, 11, Ramsey, Cambridgeshire

Lisa Pollard, 11, Fairham, Nottingham

Congratulations to all of you

Share this entry
  • Share on Facebook
  • Share on Twitter
  • Share on WhatsApp
  • Share on Pinterest
  • Share on LinkedIn
  • Share on Reddit
  • Share by Mail
http://booksforkeeps.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/bfklogo.png 0 0 Richard Hill http://booksforkeeps.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/bfklogo.png Richard Hill1983-03-01 09:05:272021-12-15 10:46:15Extra Extra!
Download BfK Issue Bfk 272 May 2025
Skip to an Issue:

Related Articles

No Related Articles

About Us

Launched in 1980, we’ve reviewed hundreds of new children’s books each year and published articles on every aspect of writing for children.

Read More

Follow Us

Latest News

‘The magic of poetry by heart’ Champions of the 2025 National Poetry Speaking Competition Announced

July 8, 2025
IBC

New National Year of Reading launching January 2026

July 8, 2025

Winners of the 2025 UKLA Book Awards

June 27, 2025

Contact Us

Books for Keeps,
30 Winton Avenue,
London,
N11 2AT

Telephone: 0780 789 3369

ISSN: 0143-909X (this is our International Standard Serial Number).

© Copyright 2025 - Books For Keeps | Proudly Built by Lemongrass Media - Web Design Buckinghamshire
BfK News: March 1983 Fairy Tale Visions
Scroll to top