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BfK No. 22 - September 1983

Cover Story
The illustration on our cover is from the new paperback edition of S. E. Hinton's The Outsiders (Fontana Lions 0 00 671427 7, £1.00). We are grateful to Fontana Lions for making it possible to use it.

BfK No. 22 Articles

Editorial – September 1983

News and comment from the Editor.

Looking for a Teenage Audience

A review of two major book and film tie-ins.

Pocket Bears

The story behind a new picture paperback series.

Authorgraph No.22: S E Hinton

S E Hinton interviewed by Pat Triggs.

Information Please: Books and Computers

Peter Usborne explores the Micro Jungle

Terry Downie reports on choosing which books to buy

Neil Ardley discusses present problems and future prospects as a writer of Computer books.

Sound & Vision – September 1983

News about books on TV and radio.

Lifeline Two No.5: Stories for the Middle/Secondary Years

Part five of Judith Elkin's six part series.

May We Recommend... Robert Swindells

Pat Thomson introduces Robert Swindells.

BfK News – September 1983

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

All Children's Book Reviews in BfK No. 22

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

Under 5s

  • A Pet for Mrs Arbuckle

    Gwenda Smyth
  • Timothy Goes to School

    Rosemary Wells
  • Three Little Pigs ¦ Three Bears ¦ Red Riding Hood ¦ Billy Goats Gruff

  • Numbers ¦ Shapes ¦ Sizes ¦ Colours ¦ Time ¦ ABC ¦ Homes ¦ Weather

    Jan Pieńkowski
  • Park Animals ¦ Country Animal ¦ Woodland Animals ¦ Farm Animals

    David Lloyd
  • Rebekah and the Slide

    Christine Parker
  • I Can see ¦ I Can Hear

    Peter Curry
  • Snowy Days ¦ Sunny Days

Ages 5-8

  • Animal Camouflage

    Ljiljana Rylands
  • The Squirrel ¦ The Frog

    Margaret Lane
  • The String Family in Summer

    Patricia Cleveland-Peck
  • Arlo the Dandy Lion

    Morris Lurie
  • Mrs. Pepperpot Again

    Alf Prøysen
  • Tigger is Unbounced ¦ Pooh Invents a New Game ¦ A House is Built at Pooh Corner for Eeyore

    A A Milne
  • A Bad Spell for the Worst Witch

    Jill Murphy
  • Oliver Button is a Sissy

    Tomie De Paola
  • Mike and Spike

    Lydia Warwick
  • Molly Moves Out

    Susan Pearson

Ages 8-10

  • The Prodigal Son ¦ Miracles by the Sea ¦ Jonah and the Whale ¦ Adam and Eve

  • What Difference Does it Make, Danny?

    Helen Young
  • Arthur v. the Rest

    Alan Coren
  • Loser Weepers ¦ The Bee Rustlers

    Jan Needle
  • Mr Browser and the Comet Crisis

    Philip Curtis
  • Odd to the Rescue

    James Roose-Evans
  • The Steel Bank

    Wendy Green
  • The Great Ice Cream Crime

    Hazel Townson

Ages 10-14

  • Friends and Sisters

    Sandy Asher
  • Ring-Rise, Ring-Set

    Monica Hughes
  • Constellations

  • The Hollow Land

    Jane Gardam
  • The Hammerhead Light

    Colin Thiele
  • The Magicians of Caprona

    Diana Wynne Jones
  • Robot Revolt

    Nicholas Fisk
  • The Taste of Fear

    Vera Boyle
  • Falling Angels

    K M Peyton
  • The Right Hand Man

    K M Peyton
  • Gregory's Girl

    Gerald Cole
  • A Spy at Mill Green

    Alison Prince
  • The Black Stallion's Challenge

    Walter Farley
  • Traveller

    Anne De Roo
  • Harry Pay the Pirate

    Robert Nye
  • The Time of the Witch

    Mary Downing Hahn
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