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BfK No. 83 - November 1993

Cover Story
The illustration on our cover this month is by Andrew Skilleter from Susan Cooper's Over Sea, Under Stone. Susan Cooper is interviewed by Stephanie Nettell. The book is published by Bodley Head, to whom we are grateful for help in using this illustration.

BfK No. 83 Articles

Editorial – November 1993

News and comment from the Editor.

Let There Be Dragons

Terry Pratchett on writing fantasy.

Guidelines and Selected Titles: 100 Picture Books chosen by The Working Group Against Racism in Children’s Resources

Anne Marley assesses.

Series Titles – November 1993

Some of the latest, reviewed by Steve Rosson.

Authorgraph No.83: Susan Cooper

Susan Cooper interviewed by Stephanie Nettell.

Blind Spot: Snobberies, Sneers and Narnia…

Victor Watson on the narrowness of C S Lewis.

Dear Mr Peach...

Principal Librarian Gerry Peach and Children's Librarian Linda Smith ask children's writers what libraries mean to them.

Writing SF for Kids

Douglas Hill talks about the genre.

Journeys into Inner Space

Jessica Yates selects SF for youngsters.

BfK Briefing – November 1993

News * Publications * Events

Junior Fantasy

Chosen by Margaret Clark.

APOLOGY

About a pale cover...

All Children's Book Reviews in BfK No. 83

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

Under 5s

  • Pirates

    Colin Hawkins
    Jacqui Hawkins
  • The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr Benn, Red Knight

    David McKee
  • The Magic Roundabout: Brian s New House

    Helen Lloyd
  • Little Beaver and the Echo

    Amy MacDonald
  • Fritz and the Mess Fairy

    Rosemary Wells
  • Working Machines: The Dump Truck; Working Machines: The Tugboat

    Arlene Blanchard
  • Magic Beach

    Alison Lester
  • How Many?

    Rick Walton
  • Two by Two

    Barbara Reid
  • The Orchard Book of Nursery Stories

    Sophie Windham
  • Imagine

    Alison Lester
  • Five Little Ducks

    Ian Beck
  • I Spy ABC

    Sally Anne Lambert
  • At the Shops; At Playgroup; At Home; In the Garden

    Susie Lacome

Ages 5-8

  • Birds; Flowers; Molluscs; Trees

    Joy Richardson
  • Grandma's Hat

    Rosemary Kahn
  • Dragon Poems

    John Foster
  • One in a Million, ill.

    Moira Andrew
  • The Magic Hare

    Lynne Reid Banks
  • Dear Greenpeace

    Simon James
  • The Steadfast Tin Soldier

    Hans Christian Andersen
  • The Puddletown Dragon

    Maggie Pearson
  • Blue Magic

    Hazel Townson
  • Toffee Pockets

    Jeanne Willis
  • The Smallest Stegosaurus

    Lynn Sweat
    Louis Phillips
  • First Class

    Rose Impey
  • I'm Not Frightened of Ghosts

    Juliet Charles Snape
  • Mini Beasties

    Michael Rosen
  • A Secret Place

    Julia Draper
  • Hairy Maclary's Showbusiness

    Lynley Dodd
  • Mama, Papa and Baby Joe

    Niki Daly
  • The Sugar-Gum Tree

    Patricia Wrightson

Ages 8-10

  • The Search for the East; Voyages to the New World

    Peter Chrisp
  • SF on Tape

    Stephen Bowkett
    Jan Dean
    Helen Dunmore
    Anthony Masters
  • The Werepuppy

    Jacqueline Wilson
  • Animal Poetry; Green Poetry; Sea Poetry; Christmas Poetry

  • Mousehole Cat

    Antonia Barber
  • The Orphan Boy

    Tololwa M Molel
  • Stinky Stories

    Barbara Ireson
  • The Mystery of the Cupboard

    Lynne Reid Banks
  • Seeing Off Uncle Jack

    Bernard Ashley
  • Sourland

    William H Armstrong
  • The Canterbury Tales

    Selina Hastings

Ages 10-14

  • Junior Pears Encyclopaedia

    Edward Blishen
  • Free at Last: a history of the civil rights movement and those who died in the struggle

    Sara Bullard
  • Clean Environment; Food; Homeland; Justice

    Sara Jones
  • Small Change

    Marianne Frances
  • Focus on Coins and Currency

    Brenda Ralph Lewis
  • The Circulation of the Blood

    Merce Parramon
    Frances Halton
  • Woodwind

    Alyn Shipton
  • Truckers

    Terry Pratchett
  • The Suitcase Kid

    Jacqueline Wilson
  • Advantage, Miss Jackson

    Michael Hardcastle
  • The Flower King

    Lesley Howarth
  • The Intruder

    John Rowe Townsend
  • The Street Dancers

    Elizabeth Starr Hill
  • Thin Air

    David Getz
  • The File on Fraulein Berg

    Joan Lingard
  • Losing David

    Alida Young
  • Horror Stories

    Terry Deary
  • Knights of the Lost Domain

    Julian Atterton
  • A Ghost waiting

    Hugh Scott

Ages 14+

  • Seven Weeks Last Summer

    Catherine Robinson
  • Love in a Dustbin

    Janet Green
  • The Other Side of the Fence

    Jean Ure
  • Ordinary Seaman

    John Gordon
  • Yesterday

    Adèle Geras
  • Fearful Lovers

    Robert Westall
  • Then Came the Liars, Then Came the Fools

    Anna McLeay
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