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BfK No. 37 - March 1986

Cover Story
The illustration on our cover is from Ben and the Bear, written and illustrated by Chris Riddell (0 7445 0480 5, £2.95), a title from a new series of Fun-to-Read Picture Books published by Walker Books. We are grateful to Walker Books for help in using this illustration.

BfK No. 37 Articles

Editor's Page – March 1986

News and comment from the Editor.
Anthologies – Past, Present and Future

Surveying the Scene. Pat Thomson investigates.
I'm Trying to Connect You

Terry Downie reports on a one-day Children's Book Conference organised by the Children's Bookselling Group of the Booksellers Association and the Children's Book Circle

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Sound & Vision – March 1986

News of books on film, TV and radio.
Authorgraph No 37 – Colin McNaughton

Colin McNaughton interviewed by Pat Triggs.
Trends in Reading

Cliff Moon examines the growth of the series as an aspect of the move to `real books' for beginner readers. Are they just mini-schemes in disguise?
Whatever happened to Willi Baum?

Eric Hadley wonders
BfK News – March 1986

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

All Children's Book Reviews in BfK No. 37

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

Under 5s

  • Badger's Parting Gifts
    Susan Varley

  • Lucy goes to playgroup ¦ Lucy helps in the garden ¦ Sam's visit to the zoo ¦ Sam goes shopping ¦ Ben's birthday party ¦ Katy goes to the seaside
    Rosemary Border

  • Postman Pat's Thirsty Day
    John Cunliffe

  • Mr Fox
    Gavin Bishop

  • After Dark
    Louis Baum

  • The Trouble with Jack
    Shirley Hughes

  • The Surprise
    George Shannon

  • Happy Birthday, Moon
    Frank Asch

  • New Clothes for Alex
    Mary Dickinson

  • Jump, Frog, Jump
    Robert Kalan

  • The Three Friends
    Susanne Kubler

Ages 5-8

  • Mabel's Story
    Jenny Koralek

  • Heggerty Haggerty and the Great Running Race ¦ Heggerty Haggerty and the Amazing Loaf of Bread ¦ Heggerty Haggerty and the Day at the Farm ¦ Heggerty Haggerty and the Flying Saucer
    Elizabeth Lindsay

  • Two Little Nurses
    Sian Victory

  • Time to get out of the bath, Shirley
    John Burningham

  • Jimmy's Boa Bounces Back
    Trinka Hakes Noble

  • Angelina Ballerina
    Katharine Holabird

  • Oink and Pearl
    Kay Chorao

  • The Crow and Mrs Gaddy
    Wilson Gage

  • Gloria
    A Vesey

  • Badger's Parting Gifts
    Susan Varley

Ages 8-10

  • Lionel's Finest Hour
    Linda Allen

  • The Return of the Antelope
    Willis Hall

  • The Hermit and the Bear
    John Yeoman

  • The Little Vampire Takes a Trip
    Angela Sommer-Bodenburg

  • Escape from Blood Castle
    Jenny Tyler
    Graham Round

  • Sick!
    Susan Stranks

  • My Dog Sunday
    Leila Berg

  • Harriet and the Haunted School
    Martin Waddell

  • The Gift Horse
    Alexa Romanes

  • The Shrieking Face
    Hazel Townson

Ages 10-14

  • The Adventures of Professor Challenger
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

  • Catch your Death
    John Gordon

  • Shivers
    Jane Ferguson

  • But Jasper Came Instead
    Christine Nostlinger

  • Mama's Going to Buy You a Mockingbird
    Jean Little

  • The Witch of Lagg
    Ann Cheetham

  • The Wooden Horse ¦ King Midas and His Gold ¦ King Arthur's Sword ¦ Joan of Arc

  • Trapped in the U.S.S.R.
    J J Fortune

  • The Boys who Disappeared
    Margaret Potter

  • The Fire in the Stone
    Colin Thiele

  • Norby's Other Secret
    Janet Asimov
    Isaac Asimov

  • You Remember Me
    Nicholas Fisk

  • The Duck Street Gang
    Denis Marray

  • Flying Backwards
    Barbara Giles

Ages 14+

  • Healer
    Peter Dickinson

  • Martini-on-the Rocks and other stories
    Susan Gregory

  • Rebels of the Heavenly Kingdom ¦ Bonnie Dundee
    Katherine Paterson

  • A Pitiful Place
    Jan Needle

  • No Place Like
    Gene Kemp

  • Devil on my Back
    Monica Hughes
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