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BfK No. 89 - November 1994

Cover Story
Our cover this month features King Kong, Anthony Browne’s new picture book published by Julie MacRae, to whom we’re most grateful for help in using this illustration.

BfK No. 89 Articles

Editorial – November 1994

News and comment from the Editor.

Beasties and Ghosties and Things that Go BUMP on the Page!

A spooky round-up by Jill Burridge.

Tomb It May Concern

Colin and Jacqui Hawkins, with help from a Ghost writer (they say), describe a typical working day.

Christopher Pike - Master Of Murder

Jonathan Weir, a self-confessed diehard fan, tells us why he's so hooked,

Authorgraph No.89: Susan Price

Susan Price interviewed by George Hunt.

Pointless Horror?

Steve Rosson examines the genre.

Capturing Kong

Anthony Browne on his new picture book.

OP Plea: Ghost in the Water

Val Randall continues our series on favourite books which have gone out of print.

Giving Them the Creeps

Adèle Geras and Jenny Nimmo describe their latest books… and their own approach to the supernatural.

 

BfK Briefing – November 1994

News * Awards * Publications * Events

Have Yourself a Very Creepy Christmas...

Chris Powling selects three creepy Christmas books.

All Children's Book Reviews in BfK No. 89

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

Under 5s

  • Meg and Mog

    Helen Nicoll
  • Will There Be Polar Bears?

    Julia Jarman
  • I Don't Want To!

    Sally Grindley
  • Where's That Bus?

    Eileen Browne
  • New BIG Sister; New BIG House

    Debi Gliori
  • Buster's Day

    Rod Campbell
  • A Roar for Stanley

    Phil McMylor
  • The Most Obedient Dog in the World

    Anita Jeram

Ages 5-8

  • Circles and Spheres; Squares and Cubes

    Sally Morgan
  • Float and Sink; Light

    Maria Gordon
  • I Love Guinea-Pigs; Spider Watching

    Dick King-Smith
  • The Enchanted Horse

    Magdalen Nabb
  • Gruesome Twosome: Pirates and Monsters

    Colin Hawkins
    Jacqui Hawkins
  • Count Munch

    Michael Salmon
  • I Spy Animals in Art

    Lucy Micklethwait
  • Buster

    Linda Jennings
  • My Little Brother

    Debi Gliori
  • Will There Be Polar Bears?

    Julia Jarman
  • Hurray for Monty Ray!

    Sam McBratney
  • Charlie the Champion Liar; Disaster Bag

    Hazel Townson
  • Haddock

    Jan Mark
  • The Princess Trick

    Alexander McCall Smith
  • Cric Crac

    Grace Hallworth
  • Horse Pie

    Dick King-Smith
  • Grandpa Chatterji

    Jamila Gavin
  • Animal Stories

    Julia Eccleshare
  • The Princess and the Frog

    Jonathan Langley
  • The Snow Maze

    Jan Mark
  • You're a Hero, Daley B!

    Jon Blake
  • Dear Bear

    Joanna Harrison
  • Hurricane Betsey

    Malorie Blackman
  • Monster's Terrible Toothache; Monster and Frog Get Fit

    Rose Impey
  • I Want To Be

    Tony Ross

Ages 8-10

  • The Bayeux Tapestry

    Norman Denny
  • Newspapers; Post Office

    Philippa Perry
    Stephen Gibbs
  • Seaside Town

    Neil Thomson
  • The Worst Witch; The Worst Witch Strikes Again; A Bad Spell for the Worst Witch

    Jill Murphy
  • A Web of Stories

    Grace Hallworth
  • My Grandmother's Stories

    Adèle Geras
  • Non-stop Nonsense Singapore Style; Opus Britannica

    Stephanie McGurk
  • Wondercrump Poetry!

    Jennifer Curry
  • Billy Pink's Private Detective Agency

    Garry Kilworth
  • Amber Brown is not a crayon

    Paula Danziger
  • The Revolting Wedding

    Mary Hooper
  • The Animal Parade

    Dick King-Smith
  • Jonah, a Whale of a Tale

    John Ryan
  • The Scribblers of Scumbagg School

    Wes Magee
  • Naughtiest Stories

    Barbara Ireson
  • The Fright; Who's Talking?

    Jean Ure
  • Jolly Roger

    Colin McNaughton

Ages 10-14

  • The Most Amazing Pop-Up Science Book

    Jay Young
  • Balls, Bangs and Flashes ¦ Germs, Jabs and Laughing Gas ¦ Whirrs, Watts and Whooshes

    Meredith Hooper
  • The London Bus and Tube Book

    Nicola Baxter
  • The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

    R L Stevenson
  • Vlad the Drac

    Ann Jungman
  • The Place Between

    Hugh Scott
  • The Mennyms

    Sylvia Waugh
  • The Electric Kid

    Garry Kilworth
  • The House of Rats

    Stephen Elboz
  • The Rope Carrier

    Theresa Tomlinson
  • Shiloh

    Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
  • The Giver

    Lois Lowry
  • The Silence Trap

    Gloria Whelan
  • Roundabout

    Gene Kemp
  • The Iron Woman

    Ted Hughes
  • The Magic Apostrophe

    Jenny Sullivan
  • The White Nights of St Petersburg

    Geoffrey Trease
  • I Know an Old Lady ... a funny sort of joke book

    Brough Girling
  • The Writing on the Wall

    Terence Copley
  • In Deep Water

    Michelle Magorian
  • Underrunners

    Margaret Mahy
  • Coming Down to Earth

    Susan Price

Ages 14+

  • Frankenstein

    Mary Shelley
  • The Song of Gail and Fludd

    Philip Gross
  • Plex

    Philip Gross
  • Virtual Sexual Reality

    Chloë Rayban
  • White Out

    Anthony Masters
  • Letters from the Inside

    John Marsden
  • The Cool Boffin

    Pete Johnson
  • The Tin Princess

    Philip Pullman
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