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BfK No. 62 - May 1990

Cover Story
The illustration on our cover is taken from One World by Michael Foreman, published by Andersen Press, (0 86264 289 2, £6.95). We are grateful to Andersen Press for their help in using this illustration and to Michael Foreman for the article.

BfK No. 62 Articles

Editor's Page - May 1990

News and comment from the Editor.
The Birth of a Book

Michael Foreman on the slow emergence of One World.
Big Books

Penny Smith takes a step back to look at why, how and which...
A Designer Looks at Picture Books

Douglas Martin reflects on the past, present and future of what the book trade calls `flats'.
Authorgraph No. 62 – Helen Oxenbury

Helen Oxenbury interviewed by Stephanie Nettell.
What is a Child?

Ralph Steadman takes a personal view.
On The Level

Jeff Hynds, with a little help from his young friends, assesses this year's Spring picture books.
AWARDS - Mother Goose and The Guardian Award

MOTHER GOOSE 89 - Elaine Moss gives the judge's verdictand for The Guardian Award Stephanie Nettell reports.
BfK News - May 1990

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

All Children's Book Reviews in BfK No. 62

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

Under 5s

  • Come to Town ¦ In Our House
    Anne Rockwell

  • Jamaica's Find
    Juanita Havill

  • Who's Afraid of the Ghost Train?
    Frank Rodgers

  • The Cake That Mack Ate
    Rose Robart

  • Little Miss Muffet
    Ian Beck

Ages 5-8

  • A Family of Tortoises
    Elvig Hansen

  • My Apple ¦ My Boat ¦ My Cake ¦ My Jumper
    Kay Davies
    Wendy Oldfield

  • Friends and Brothers
    Dick King-Smith

  • Ghost's Hour, Spook's Hour
    Eve Bunting

  • The Wizard Party
    Thelma Lambert

  • Our Horrible Friend
    Hannah Cole

  • Tim and Ginger ¦ Tim in Danger ¦ Tim to the Lighthouse ¦ Tim's Friend Towser ¦ Tim and Charlotte ¦ Tim All Alone
    Edward Ardizzone

  • Tales from the Shop that Never Shuts
    Martin Waddell

  • The Magic Camera
    Adèle Geras

  • Over the Moon and Far Away
    Margaret Nash

  • Albertine, Goose Queen
    Michael Morpurgo

  • Going Out with Hatty
    Jenny Koralek

  • Barnabas Walks
    William Mayne

  • The Little Peacock's Gift
    Cherry Denman

  • Fancy Nancy in Disguise
    Ruth Craft

  • Animal Characters
    Jean Christian Knaff

  • The Smelly Book
    Babette Cole

  • The King of Kennelwick Castle
    Colin West

  • The Oddjob Man and the Thousand Mile Boots
    Jean Kenward

Ages 8-10

  • Bianca
    Joan Phipson

  • Pig in the Middle
    Sam Llewellyn

  • Jackaroo
    Cynthia Voigt

  • Race Against Time
    Rosemary Hayes

  • Hard and Fast
    Linda Newbery

  • Max All Over
    Marilyn Kaye

  • The Other Darker Ned
    Anne Fine

  • Great Comfort
    Geraldine Kaye

  • The Underground Conspiracy
    Catherine Storr

  • Best Friends
    Anthony Smith

  • Hetty's First Fling
    Diana Hendry

  • Ally, Ally, Aster
    Ann Halam

  • The Tripods: When The Tripods Came
    John Christopher

  • Taking Root

  • A Visit to Folly Castle
    Nina Beachcroft

  • The Devil's Other Storybook
    Natalie Babbitt

  • The Adventures of Brer Rabbit

  • Maid Marian and Her Merry Men: How the Band got Together ¦ Maid Marian and Her Merry Men: Robert the Incredible Chicken
    Tony Robinson

  • Maid Marian and her Merry Men

  • Matilda
    Roald Dahl

  • Wagstaffe the Wind-Up Boy
    Jan Needle

  • Mrs Circumference
    Catherine Storr

  • Anastasia Morningstar
    Hazel Hutchins

  • Count Boris Bolescu and the Black Pudding ¦ My Uncle Albert ¦ Princess Florizella
    Ann Jungman

  • My Friend Walter
    Michael Morpurgo

  • Friends and Brothers
    Dick King-Smith

  • Hoppity-Gap
    Chris Powling

Ages 10-14

  • The New Oxford School Atlas
    Patrick Wiegand

  • Down the Plughole ¦ What a Load of Rubbish ¦ Poison Beware! ¦ Worm's Eye View
    Thompson Yardley

  • Castles, Pyramids and Palaces
    Caroline Young

  • Sammy Streetsinger ¦ Snow White in New York
    Charles Keeping

Ages 14+

  • Charles Dickens ¦ D H Lawrence
    Christopher Martin

  • Goodbye and Keep Cold
    Jenny Davis

  • So Long at the Fair
    Hadley Irwin

  • The Troublemakers
    Roger Parkes

  • And I Heard a Bird Sing
    Rosa Guy

  • Catch the Moon
    Sue Welford

  • Heartache: A Book of Love Stories

  • The Masque of the Red Death and other stories; Perhaps You Should Talk to Someone and other stories
    Julia Eccleshare

  • Holding Me Here
    Pam Conrad

  • Me and Luke
    Audrey O'Hearn

  • Love All

  • Out of the Sun
    Peggy Woodford

  • Alex
    Tessa Duder

  • Double Take
    June Oldham

  • Roscoe's Leap
    Gillian Cross

  • Someday My Prince Won't Come

  • A Haunting Refrain
    Alison Prince

  • After the Dancing Days
    Margaret Rostkowski

  • Secrets Not Meant to be Kept
    Gloria D Miklowitz
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