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BfK No. 100 - September 1996

Cover Story
The cover illustration for our 100th issue is by Rosemary Wells for Iona Opie’s latest book, My Very First Mother Goose. Iona is the subject of our Authorgraph this month. We are grateful to Walker Books for their help in producing our September cover.

BfK No. 100 Articles

Editorial – September 1996

News and comment from the Editor.
My Pal William Brown

Garry Kilworth on writing for children.
Spot and His Owner

David Morton interviews Eric Hill.
Northern Lights and Christmas Miracles

Julia Eccleshare on this year's Carnegie and Greenaway Medals.
Authorgraph No.100: Iona Opie

Iona Opie interviewed by Nicholas Tucker.
Towards a Nascent Logodaedali...

George Hunt assesses dictionaries for children.
Big Books Are Brilliant!

Jill Bennett on an invaluable classroom asset.
Labels That Libel

Jeff Hynds with a warning to publishers.
Blind Spot: Aesop’s Fables

Geraldine McCaughrean on her dislike of Aesop's Fables.
Hundredth-Issue Hardbacks

Stephanie Nettell selects from the latest publications.
BfK Briefing – September 1996

Obituary * Awards * News * Letters to the Editor * Events
Remembering Eleanor Farjeon

Anne Harvey discusses Eleanor Farjeon.

All Children's Book Reviews in BfK No. 100

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

Under 5s

  • Wake Up Piglet
    Jan Barger

  • Where's My Kitten?
    Michèle Coxon

  • Oops-A-Daisy! and Other Tales for Toddlers
    Joyce Dunbar

  • Snap! Snap!
    Colin Hawkins
    Jacqui Hawkins

  • Over on the Farm
    Christopher Gunson

  • Mr Bear's Picnic
    Debi Gliori

  • You're a Genius, Blackboard Bear
    Martha Alexander

  • Lucy's Rabbit
    Jennifer Northway

  • The Train Ride
    June Crebbin
    Stephen Lambert

  • Badger's Parting Gifts
    Susan Varley

Ages 5-8

  • Tick-Tock ¦ What's Under the Bed? ¦ The World is Full of Babies!
    James Dunbar

  • Machines ¦ Materials ¦ Textures ¦ Tools ¦ Blue ¦ Green ¦ Red ¦ Yellow
    Karen Bryant-Mole

  • Flower Street Friends
    Diana Hendry

  • Invisible Stanley
    Jeff Brown

  • Willy the Wizard
    Anthony Browne

  • Marmaduke the Magic Cat
    Colin West

  • Making Faces
    Nick Butterworth

  • Mr Dunfilling and the Denture Adventure
    Rob Lewis

  • A First Puffin Picture Book of Stories from World Religions
    Annabel Shilson-Thomas

  • Herbert - Five Stories
    Ivor Cutler

  • The Great Book of Picture Puzzles
    Juliet Snape
    Charles Snape

  • The Little Prince and the Great Treasure Hunt
    Peter Kavanagh

  • Tick-Tock
    Eileen Browne

  • Dinosaur Roar!
    Paul Stickland
    Henrietta Stickland

  • Swinging on a Rainbow
    Charles Perkins

  • I Want My Dinner
    Tony Ross

  • How to Count Crocodiles

  • Badger's Parting Gifts
    Susan Varley

Ages 8-10

  • The Original Olympics
    Stewart Ross

  • Animals ¦ Landscapes ¦ Portraits ¦ Stories

  • The Upside-down Mice and Other Animal Stories

  • Skating on Sand
    Libby Gleeson

  • Dark at the Foot of the Stairs
    Eileen Moore

  • The Magic Fountain by HRH Princess Gloriana
    Roger McGough

  • The Dog Who Changed the World
    Robert Leeson

  • Storm Boy
    Paul Owen Lewis

  • Casting a Spell and Other Poems

  • Otherworlds - Poems of the mysterious

  • Street of Tall People ¦ Ganging Up
    Alan Gibbons

  • Pepe's Dog
    Helen Santos

  • It's Raining Cats and Dogs
    Pie Corbett

  • The Night I Was Chased By a Vampire
    Kaye Umansky

  • Wyvern Fall
    Toby Forward

  • The Bagthorpe Triangle
    Helen Cresswell

  • Jet Smoke and Dragon Fire
    Charles Ashton

Ages 10-14

  • Who Wrote That?
    Terrance Dicks

  • Racism
    Samidha Garg
    Jan Hardy

  • McDonald's
    William Gould

  • Space ¦ Time
    David Glover

  • Fault Line
    Graham Marks

  • Uncovered ¦ The Gizmo Again
    Paul Jennings

  • Blood Dance
    Louise Cooper

  • Bruno and the Crumhorn
    Ursula Dubosarsky

  • World-Eater
    Robert Swindells

  • The Weirdo
    Theodore Taylor

  • Molly
    Carol Drinkwater

  • Night Fright
    Jean Ure

  • Matt's Million
    Andrew Norriss

  • Frances Fairweather - Demon Striker
    Derek Smith

  • Double Act
    Jacqueline Wilson
    Sue Heap

  • Wilmot and Chips
    Alex Shearer

  • Closer, Closer
    Steve May

  • Criminal Records

  • How Come the Best Clues are Always in the Garbage?
    Linda Bailey

  • The Island of Summer
    Jenny Sullivan

  • Thundering Hooves

  • The Fear Man
    Ann Halam

  • Pulling the Plug on the Universe
    Maggie Prince

  • The Good Book
    Alan Durant

  • Weirdo's War
    Michael Coleman

Ages 14+

  • The Gathering Darkness
    Paula Fox

  • Sea Change
    Christine Purkis
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