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BfK 119 November 1999

November 1, 1999/in /by Richard Hill

This issue’s cover is from Patrick Benson’s new picture book, The Sea-Thing Child by Russell Hoban. Patrick Benson is interviewed by Joanna Carey. Thanks to Walker Books for their help in producing this November cover.

Articles

Editorial 119: November 1999
News and comment from the Editor.
Books for a Real Christmas
Stephanie Nettell recommends books for giving.
Authorgraph No.119: Patrick Benson
Patrick Benson interviewed by Joanna Carey.
The Children’s Books of the Century
Rosemary Stones on the most important writers, artists, poets and books of the century chosen by BfK's readership.
Fin de Sièclism
Brian Alderson on children's books at the turns of the 18th and 19th centuries.
BfK News: November 1999
News * Awards * Prediction Chart * Events * Obituary * Letters to the Editor
I Wish I’d Written: Jean Ure
Jean Ure chooses Adèle Geras’s Josephine and Pobble and Mimi and Apricot Max.
Classics in Short No.18: Struwwelpeter
Brian Alderson on Heinrich Hoffman's Struwwelpeter.

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