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BfK No. 4 - September 1980

Cover story
Mother Goose Comes to Cable Street (Kestrel/Puffin), a collection of nursery rhymes chosen by Rosemary Stones and Andrew Mann, and illustrated by Dan Jones is featured on our cover this month. See Editor's Page for more.

BfK No. 4 Articles

Editor's Page – September 1980

News and comment from the Editor.
A Wider Heritage

Ruth Ballin, Jean Bleach and Josie Levine comment on the background to a booklist.
A Closer Look at Dinosaurs

Focus on a publisher.
A Name to Note

Steve Bowles meets Ann Harries.
Authorgraph No.4 - Farrukh Dhondy

Pat Triggs interviews Farrukh Dhondy.
Be Our Guest...

A taste of A Wider Heritage . Fifteen books chosen by Ruth Ballin, Jean Bleach and Josie Levine from their new NBL booklist.
Talking Point – Who Needs Multi-Ethnic Books?

Rosemary Stones asks who needs multi-ethnic books.
Jan Needle

Pat Triggs talks to Jan Needle.
How to... get children involved in books

Get children involved in books.
BfK News – September 1980

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

Harry Secombe is this year's Children's Book Weekpersonality.
Sound & Vision – September 1980

News and views about books on radio, TV and in films.
Languages for Life

A look at dual-language books.
The first of the Books for Keeps 'award' for BOOKS THAT WORK

The SBA Award.

All Children's Book Reviews in BfK No. 4

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

Under 5s

  • The Bossing of Josie
    Ronda Armitage
    David Armitage

  • Smile for Auntie
    Diane Paterson

  • The Rich Man and the Shoe-maker

  • Dorothy Edwards' Story Time One
    Dorothy Edwards

  • Cops and Robbers
    Janet Ahlberg
    Allan Ahlberg

  • The Worst Person in the World
    James Stevenson

  • Sam Who Never Forgets
    Eve Rice

  • The Cow Who Fell in the Canal
    Phyllis Krasilovsky

  • Jim and the Beanstalk
    Raymond Briggs

  • Mother Goose Comes to Cable Street
    Rosemary Stones
    Andrew Mann

  • The Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch
    Ronda Armitage
    David Armitage

  • The Rat Race
    Colin McNaughton

  • Cat and Mouse
    Rodney Peppé

  • Morris's Disappearing Bag
    Rosemary Wells

  • The Snowman
    Raymond Briggs

Ages 5-8

  • The Beautiful Take Away Palace
    Geraldine Kaye

  • Kassim Goes Fishing
    Geraldine Kaye

  • Kofi and the Eagle
    Geraldine Kaye

  • The Cherry Tree
    Ruskin Bond

  • The White Hippo
    Alexander McCall Smith

  • The Knight and the Dragon
    Tomie De Paola

  • How Do I Eat It? ¦ Hallo! How are You?
    Shigeo Watanabe
    Yasuo Ohtomo

  • Tortoise's Dream
    Joanna Troughton

  • The Third 'Did I Ever Tell You...?' Book
    Iris Grender

  • Katy and the Nurgla
    Harry Secombe

  • Country Tales to Tell
    Elizabeth Clark

  • Magic in the Air
    Phyllis Arkle

  • Jeremiah in the Dark Woods
    Janet Ahlberg
    Allan Ahlberg

  • Ginnie
    Ted Greenwood

Ages 8-10

  • The Eyes of the Amaryllis
    Natalie Babbitt

  • Star Ka'at
    Andre Norton
    Dorothy Madlee

  • Horse in a Million
    Patricia Leitch

  • At Madam Muriel's
    Mary Denison

  • Searching for Shona
    Margaret J Anderson

  • Private - Keep Out
    Gwen Grant

  • The Elm Street Lot
    Philippa Pearce

  • Macpherson's Skyscraper ¦ Macpherson's Island ¦ Macpherson's Highland Fling
    Lavinia Derwent

  • My Best Fiend
    Sheila Lavelle

  • Ned Kelly and the City of the Bees
    Thomas Keneally

  • Supergran
    Forrest Wilson

  • Nicholas on Holiday
    Rene Goscinny

  • Warton and the King of the Skies ¦ A Toad for Tuesday
    Russell Erickson

  • Patrick Comes to Puttyville
    Geoffrey Hayes

  • Bertie's Escapade
    Kenneth Grahame

Ages 10-14

  • The Methuen Book of Strange Tales

  • The Nine Lives of Montezuma
    Michael Morpurgo

  • The Exeter Blitz
    David Rees

Ages 14+

  • The Light of Day
    Othmar Franz Lang

  • Remember Last Summer ¦ Love You, Hate You, Just Don't Know

  • The Disappearance
    Rosa Guy

  • The Fox in Winter
    John Branfield

  • The Watch House
    Robert Westall

  • Hostage!
    James Hamilton-Paterson

  • The River Kings
    Max Fatchen

  • Scarf Jack
    P J Kavanagh
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