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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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