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BfK 42 January 1987

January 1, 1987/in /by Richard Hill

Our cover this issue is taken from the jacket illustration by Trevor Webster for Peter Carter’s Bury the Dead (OUP 0 19 271493 7, £9.95). We are grateful for help from OUP in using this illustration.

Articles

Editorial 42: January 1987
News and comment from the Editor.
The Jolly Postman: another Ahlberg classic
Chris Powling examines another Ahlberg classic.
Authorgraph No.42: Helen Cresswell
Helen Cresswell interviewed by David Bennett.
Books in the Teenage World
Michael Pountney reports on some Book Marketing Council research
Making the Charts – book style
Jessica Yates looks at the top pop lists from the Teen Read promotion and reveals her own approach to picking a chart topper.
New Horizons?
At last, a real chance to do something about teenage reading. Steve Bowles welcomes the new Pan Horizons series.
Border Country
Michael Jones examines the work of Peter Carter who has twice been awarded the Observer prize for teenage fiction; this year for Bury the Dead.
Livewires and Upstarts
Two new teenage lists this year from The Women's Press and Virago Pat Triggs talks to the editor and previews some of the books.
BfK News: January 1987
News about what's happening in the children's book world.
Sound & Vision: January 1987
News of books on television.

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