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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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