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BfK No. 88 - September 1994

Cover Story
This month our cover features The Wheel of Surya (see Authorgraph for details), with artwork by Caroline Binch. The paperback of Jamila Gavin’s book was published by Mammoth in July 1994 and we’re most grateful to them for their help in using this illustration.

BfK No. 88 Articles

Editorial – September 1994

News and comment from the Editor.

I Din Do Nuttin... to Gregory Cool

Rosemary Stones on BfK's updated Multicultural Guide.

Series Titles Reviews

Some of the latest, chosen by Steve Rosson.

Authorgraph No.88: Jamila Gavin

Jamila Gavin interviewed by Stephanie Nettell.

It Began in a Forest Rest-house

Ruskin Bond on how he became a reader.

Blind Spot: Self-Portrait of the Laureate of Nonsense

Rachel Anderson on Edward Lear.

A Poet on Poetry

Judith Nicholls assesses recent titles.

BfK Briefing – September 1994

News * Publications * Events * Awards

Generous Vendors

Morag Styles introduces A Caribbean Dozen.

All Children's Book Reviews in BfK No. 88

Under 5s
Ages 5-8
Ages 8-10
Ages 10-14
Ages 14+
Books About Children's Books

Under 5s

Emily's House

Niko Scharer
Eat Your Dinner

Virginia Miller
A Shop Full of Kittens

Ian Penney
What Happened to Wilfred Bear

Abigail Pizer
The Pig in the Pond

Martin Waddell
Toot! Toot! I'm Going Shopping

Sally Grindley
Little Red Tractor To the Rescue; The Day Jeremy Came to Stay

Colin Reeder

Ages 5-8

Paper; Metal; Rock and Stone; Wood

Henry Pluckrose
The Fit Fat Cat

Wendy Smith
The Dog Who Had Kittens

Polly M Robertus
The Ghost at Codlin Castle and Other Stories

Dick King-Smith
Betsey Biggalow the Detective

Malorie Blackman
Jessy and the Bridesmaid's Dress

Rachel Anderson
Donkey Magic

Caroline Sutherland
Tippu

David Day
Let's Get a Pet... or maybe not!

Harriet Ziefert
Lily and the Present

Christine Ross

Ages 8-10

I Come From China; China

Anita Ganeri
Birds; Mammals; Insects; Reptiles

Anita Ganeri
How Would You Survive as an Aztec?

Fiona Macdonald
Anglo-Saxon Village; Tudor Farmhouse

Monica Stoppleman
When Hunger Calls

Bert Kitchen
Cyril MC

Mary Hoffman
Zoo

Anthony Browne
The Rain Forest Storybook

Rosalind Kerven
Smart Girls

Robert Leeson
The Dancing Bear

Michael Morpurgo
Two's Company

Jackie Kay
Fire on the Wind

Geoffrey Trease
Blue Bird

Maurice Maeterlinck

Ages 10-14

Greenpeace; World Wide Fund for Nature

Paul Brown
Fossils; Mushrooms and Fungi

Chris Pellant
Desert

Miranda Macquitty
Land of the Four Winds

Veronica Freeman Ellis
A Bone from a Dry Sea

Peter Dickinson
Dog Bites Goalie

Michael Hardcastle
Flour Babies

Anne Fine
Lucky

Roger McGough
Throwaways

Ian Strachan
The Great Elephant Chase

Gillian Cross
The Rag Bag Family

Yvonne Coppard
Boom Boom Loopy and the Rainforest Remedy

Mark Foster
Phillip Burrows
No Friend of Mine

Ann Turnbull
Ghost Song

Susan Price
The Puffin Book of Science Fiction

Nicholas Fisk

Ages 14+

The Boy in the Bubble

Ian Strachan
The Year of the Stranger

Allan Campbell Mclean
In Love with an Urban Gorilla

Steve Skidmore
Steve Barlow
They Do Things Differently There

Jan Mark
Tunes for Bears to dance to -

Robert Cormier
One More River

Lynne Reid Banks

Books About Children's Books

The Oxford Book of Children’s Stories

Jan Mark
The Oxford Book of Schooldays

Mary Cadogan
Robert Louis Stevenson

Frank McLynn
A Slender Reputation

Kathleen Hale
Bill Peet - An Autobiography