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BfK No. 7 - March 1981

Cover Story
Bunyip Bluegum & friends, Nurse Matilda and Flat Stanley, Dandy, Beano and Topper characters, Asterix.

BfK No. 7 Articles

Editorial – March 1981

News and comment from the Editor.
What is Humour?

Lance Salway talks about humorous books and recommends Odes to raise some necessary laughter.
Asterix and his Creators

Anthea Bell talks about Translating Goscinny and Tony Bradman meets Uderzo.
Authorgraph No.7: Beverley Cleary

Beverly Cleary interviewed by Pat Triggs.
HOW TO... Stock Your bookshop

Brian Joyce who runs a bookshop at St. Thomas More Catholic Primary School suggests it's important to Learn from Your customers.
If I had some money I would buy this book

Children look at non-fiction.
Is Everything Dandy with Beano

Brian Walsh and Nicholas Tucker consider comics from two points of view.
BfK News - March 1981

News about what's happening in the children's book world.
Opinion: Celebrity Snares

Steve Bowles swipes at Celebrity Snares.
Sound & Vision - March 1981

News and views about books on radio, TV and films.
You Tell Me

Roger McGough and Michael Rosen prove that poetry can be fun too.
SBA Services & Publications

All Children's Book Reviews in BfK No. 7

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

Under 5s

  • A Special Swap
    Sally Wittman

  • Desmond and the Monsters
    Althea

  • Rapunzel
    The Brothers Grimm

  • Nursery Rhymes

  • Splodges
    Malcolm Carrick

  • Doodle's Homework
    John Ryan

  • Clotilda's Magic
    Jack Kent

  • Mog's Mumps
    Helen Nicoll
    Jan Pieńkowski

Ages 5-8

  • The Tale of the Crooked Crab ¦ Bridget and William ¦ Flames in the Forest ¦ Dinner Ladies Don't Count
    Delia Huddy

  • The Rug that Grew ¦ Dragon Earth ¦ The Bugbear ¦ The Year One
    Adèle Geras

  • Fox Tricks ¦ Penny and the Piglets ¦ Dennis and the Flying Saucer ¦ Nicki
    Aidan Chambers

  • Tim and Ginger ¦ Tim and Charlotte ¦ Tim's Friend Towser
    Edward Ardizzone

  • Panda
    Susan Bonners

  • Here's Sam ¦ The Magician who Kept a Pub, and other stories
    Dorothy Edwards

  • Laura, Alice's New Puppy
    Philippe Dumas

Ages 8-10

  • The Boy in The Bible
    Lavinia Derwent

  • A Dinosaur called Minerva
    Tessa Krailing

  • The Quicksilver Horse
    Anne Digby

  • Dancer in the Wings
    Jean Richardson

  • Kick Off
    Michael Hardcastle

  • Coyote the Trickster
    Gail Robinson
    Douglas Hill

  • Star Ka'at World ¦ Star Ka'ats and the Plant People
    Andre Norton
    Dorothy Madlee

  • Mouldy's Orphan
    Gillian Avery

  • The Three Musketeers ¦ A Journey to the Centre of the Earth

  • The Fastest Gun Alive and Other Night Adventures
    David Henry Wilson

  • Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the Stolen Diamonds
    David A Adler

  • Grasshopper and the Unwise Owl
    Jim Slater

  • The Otter Who Wanted to Know
    Jill Tomlinson

Ages 10-14

  • Landings
    Dennis Hamley

  • It's My Life
    Robert Leeson

  • Richard Bolitho - Midshipman
    Alexander Kent

  • The Fib
    George Layton

  • Lassie Come Home
    Eric Knight

  • Stormy
    Jim Kjelgaard

  • Tig's Crime
    T R Burch

  • The Lost World
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

  • Take the Long Path
    Joan De Hamel

  • Crisis on Conshelf Ten
    Monica Hughes

  • Mouldy's Orphan
    Gillian Avery
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