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BfK No. 64 - September 1990

Cover Story
The poem on our front cover is taken from Figgie Hobbin by Charles Causley, with illustrations by Gerald Rose, re-issued by Macmillan (0 333 12078 7, £7.50) in May 1990. Figgie Hobbin was first published in 1970 and has remained in print ever since. We are grateful to Macmillan for help in using this illustration.

BfK No. 64 Articles

Editor's Page – September 1990

News and comment from the Editor.
The Need For Story

Some things stay the same because they're rooted in the deepest fabric of our human being. One of those constancies is the need for story, story told and, more recently, for story read.
Authorgraph No.64 - Charles Causley

Charles Causley was interviewed by Morag Styles.
Information Books and Special Needs Awareness

We asked Dr John Quicke, author of Disability in Modern Children's Fiction, to look at in-print information books on children with special needs and to comment on them in the light of current educational policy.
LMS ... Libraries Must Suffer?

Margaret K
Faith's Farewell

Chris Powling talks to Faith Jaques about her Grand Finale.
Separated By The Same Language?

Mary Hoffman spans the US/English divide.
Of The Minstrel Kind

Margaret Meek pays tribute to Rosemary Sutcliff at Seventy.
The Best School Library In The Land?

The Pan-Macmillan Award, launched this year, is designed to track down this phenomenon. Eunice McMullen, who set up the Award, reports.
BfK News – September 1990

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

All Children's Book Reviews in BfK No. 64

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

Under 5s

  • The Amazing Story of Noah's Ark
    Marcia Williams

  • Teddy's Story ¦ Rabbit's Story
    Rose Impey

  • One Hungry Monster
    Susan Heyboer O'Keefe

  • Wake Up Mr B!
    Penny Dale

  • Bad Baby
    Nanette Newman

  • Come Out and Play, Little Mouse
    Robert Kraus

  • Making Friends ¦ Mum's Home ¦ This Little Nose ¦ Bend and Stretch
    Jan Ormerod

  • Annie's abc ¦ Annie's one to ten
    Annie Owen

  • Granny is a Darling
    Kady MacDonald Denton

  • 'Quack!' said the Billy Goat
    Charles Causley

Ages 5-8

  • Clean It! ¦ Wear It!
    Henry Pluckrose

  • Ants ¦ Ladybirds
    Barrie Watts

  • Wait and See
    Tony Bradman
    Eileen Browne

  • Monty, the Dog Who Wears Glasses
    Colin West

  • Summer in Small Street ¦ Will You Come on Wednesday?
    Geraldine Kaye

  • Grandad's Magic
    Bob Graham

  • Adelaide's Naughty Granny
    Hilary Sharpe

  • Green Monster Magic
    Marjorie Newman

  • Magic Mash
    Peter Firmin

  • Bad Egg: The True Story of Humpty Dumpty
    Sarah Hayes

  • Whiskers and Rhymes
    Arnold Lobel

  • Crumbling Castle
    Sarah Hayes

  • Ben's Big Day
    Dick Cate

  • King Tubbitum at the Fair
    Margaret Ryan

  • Goodbye Max
    Holly Keller

  • Wishwhat
    Alex Brychta

  • The One and Only Robin Hood
    Nigel Gray

  • When Dad Cuts Down the Chestnut Tree ¦ When Dad Fills In the Garden Pond
    Pam Ayres

  • The Donkey That Sneezed
    Val Biro

  • Miss Rumphius
    Barbara Cooney

Ages 8-10

  • Rocks ¦ Exploring Soil and Rocks ¦ The Changing Landscape
    Terry Jennings

  • Breakfast ¦ In the Post ¦ School Day ¦ Washday
    Lisa Chaney

  • Uncle in the Attic ¦ Skeleton at School
    Jan Needle

  • Bill's New Frock
    Anne Fine

  • Horses in the Gallery
    Jane Ayres

  • The Adventures of Rama and Sita
    Ruskin Bond

  • Private Nose
    J R Taylor

  • Rip Van Winkle ¦ The Star Maiden
    Washington Irving

  • Young Indiana Jones and The Plantation Treasure

  • Blackbeard the Pirate
    Victor Ambrus

  • Twisted Truth
    Elsie McCutcheon

  • Orange Cake for Tea
    Anne De Menezes

  • The Voyage of QV66
    Penelope Lively

  • Tom's Tale
    Judith Stinton

  • So Much to Tell You
    John Marsden

  • Rook
    Gabriel Alington

Ages 10-14

  • The Winning Formula
    Charles Hughes

  • The Science of Life
    Clint Twist

  • Chimps ¦ Hippos ¦ Lions¦ Pandas
    Jane Goodall

  • Killing Mr Griffin
    Lois Duncan

  • Freddie and the Enormouse
    Hugh Scott

  • The Last Rabbit: A collection of green poems

  • The Phantom of the Opera ¦ The Case of the Missing Teeth
    Keith Brumpton

  • The Time and Space of Uncle Albert
    Russell Stannard

  • Worlds Apart
    Jill Murphy

  • The Worm Charmers
    Nicholas Fisk

  • Two Weeks with the Queen
    Morris Gleitzman

  • A Summer to Die
    Lois Lowry

  • Ffangs the Vampire Bat and The Kiss of Truth
    Ted Hughes

  • The Time Tree
    Enid Richemont

  • Out of Step
    Jane Corbett

  • In at the Shallow End
    Hannah Cole

  • Antar and the Eagles
    William Mayne

Ages 14+

  • Yesterday's Daughter
    Patricia Calvert

  • Mightier than the Lipstick

  • Misfits and Rebels
    Jenny Oldfield

  • When I Dance
    James Berry

  • Catch
    Stephen Bowkett

  • Fanfare for a Teenage Warrior in Love
    Terry Edge
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