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BfK No. 59 - November 1989

Cover Story
The illustration on our cover is taken from The Eleventh Hour by Graeme Base published this month by Macmillan (0 333 51867 5, £7.95). We are grateful to Macmillan for help in using this illustration.

BfK No. 59 Articles

Editor's Page - November 1989

News and comment from the Editor.

Ten Years of Mother Goose

Clodagh Corcoran, onlie begetter of the Award (with a little help from her friends), looks back...

Authorgraph No. 59 – Astrid Lindgren

Astrid Lindgren interviewed by Chris Powling.

Astrid-trans-Lindgren

Patricia Crampton on her relationship, personal and professional, with the most translated writer in the world.

May We Recommend... Graeme Base

Chris Powling on The Eleventh Hour of Graeme Base.

On Writing In School

A piece Of Owning by Gareth Owen.

Pick of the Poetry

Morag Styles looks back over a year's publishing.

BfK News - November 1989

News about what's happening in the children's book world.

All Children's Book Reviews in BfK No. 59

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

Under 5s

  • Selected Stories for Under Fives

  • Fun with Colours ¦ Fun with Opposites ¦ Fun with Shapes

  • Prince Cinders

    Babette Cole
  • Twice Mice

    Wendy Smith
  • The Perfect Day

    John Prater
  • A Bun for Barney

    Joyce Dunbar
  • Casper's Week

    Cindy Ward
  • Sophie's Bucket

    Catherine Stock
  • Daisy and the Babysitter ¦ Daisy Goes Swimming

    Tony Bradman
  • Alice the Artist

    Martin Waddell

Ages 5-8

  • Tanya Moves House

    Elaine Abrahams
  • It's Too Frightening for Me!

    Shirley Hughes
  • Oxford Reading Tree: Storytape 1; Oxford Reading Tree: Storytape 2

  • Bubblegum Monster

    Susan Lacy
  • The Tale of the Tooth Fairy

    Helen East
  • Barney's Beanstalk

    Sylvia Fair
  • Princess Gorilla and a New Kind of Water

    Verna Aardema
  • Rain and Shine

    Paul Rogers
  • Abigail at the Beach

    Felix Pirani
  • A Dog for Ben

    Jean Richardson
    Joanna Carey
  • Little Red Riding Hood

    Trina Schart Hyman
  • The Real Thief

    William Steig
  • Melanie Brown Goes to School ¦ A Time to Laugh ¦ Lavender Shoes ¦ The Green Wishbone ¦ Bottle Rabbit ¦ The Iron Man

    Pamela Oldfield
  • Floella Hits the Roof

    Jane Holiday

Ages 8-10

  • Collins First Dictionary

    Evelyn Goldsmith
  • The Witches

    Roald Dahl
  • The Karate Princess

    Jeremy Strong
  • Deep Water

    Judith O'Neill
  • Old Man on a Horse

    Robert Westall
  • Owl and Billy and the Space Days

    Martin Waddell
  • In the Kingdom of the Carpet Dragon

    Ralph Batten
  • Tom's Amazing Machine

    Gordon Snell
  • The Rival Games

    Michael Hardcastle
  • The Beach Dogs

    Colin Dann
  • Greedy Alice

    Helen Cresswell
  • How to Fight a Girl

    Thomas Rockwell
  • The Bangers and Chips Explosion

    Brough Girling
  • Kelpie

    William Mayne
  • The Whipping Boy

    Sid Fleischman

Ages 10-14

  • Soviet Union: Will Perestroika Work? ¦ Ireland: A Divided Country

    John Bradley
  • The Climate Crisis - Greenhouse Effect and Ozone Layer

    John Becklake
  • Acid Rain ¦ Conserving Rainforests

    John Baines
  • How to Look at Wildlife

    Bob Gibbons
  • Challenge in the Dark

    Robert Leeson
  • The Village by the Sea

    Anita Desai
  • Secret Persuader ¦ Bomb Alert

    Pamela Oldfield
  • Angel

    Richard Severy
  • I Can't Stand Losing

    Gene Kemp
  • Tomorrow is a Stranger

    Geoffrey Trease
  • Adam's Common

    David Wiseman

Ages 14+

  • Architecture

    Eleanor Van Zandt
  • You and Other People: Understanding Psychology ¦ Money: Understanding Business and Shares

    Dr Hugh Miller
  • The Earth Witch

    Louise Lawrence
  • Spellbound ¦ Chain Letter

    Christopher Pike
  • Tomorrow is Also a Day

    Jean Ure
  • Out of the Ordinary

    Annie Dalton
  • M E and Morton

    Sylvia Cassedy
  • New Guys Around the Block

    Rosa Guy
  • The Language of Goldfish

    Zibby Oneal
  • Beware! Beware!

  • The Pigman's Legacy

    Paul Zindel
  • Monster in Our Midst

    Peggy Woodford
  • The Cost of Going Free

    Allan Frewin Jones
  • Memory

    Margaret Mahy
  • The Cool Boffin

    Pete Johnson
  • The Falklands Summer

    John Branfield
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