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BfK No. 6 - January 1981

Cover Story
Jon Pertwee as Worzel, from the cover of Worzel Gummidge goes to the Seaside (Picture Puffin)

BfK No. 6 Articles

Editor's Page – January 1981

News and comment from the Editor.
The Tie-In Business

TV producers and Publishers explain.
Maggie

Joan Lingard talks about putting her books on the TV screen.
Authorgraph No.6 - Bernard Ashley

Bernard Ashley interviewed by Pat Triggs.
Talking Point

Kevin Jeffrey describes how his bookshop changed its outlook.
Turning a Book into a TV Series

Tony Bradman describes how the TV series was made.
Be Our Guest...

Poetry - a look at some new anthologies.
Multi-cultural Supplement

A follow-up to Books for Keeps No. 4.
Take Hart

Tony Hart talks about television, children and art.
BfK News - January 1981

News about what's happening in the children's book world.
Sound & Vision - January 1981

News and views about books on radio, TV and in films.
HOW TO... Make your Book Bonanza a Sickcess

David Bennett, Head of English at the George Spencer Comprehensive School in Stapleford, Nottingham, describes their Fungus the Bogeyman Book Bonanza.

All Children's Book Reviews in BfK No. 6

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

Under 5s

  • Topsy and Tim Can Garden ¦ Topsy and Tim Can Print in Colour
    Jean Adamson
    Gareth Adamson

  • Gingerbread Pigs and other rhymes
    Daphne Lister

  • I Have Two Homes
    Althea

  • Colours
    Gillian Youlden

  • Shapes
    Gillian Youlden

  • Sizes
    Gillian Youlden

  • Numbers
    Gillian Youlden

  • Reading ¦ Eating ¦ Helping ¦ The Cat, the Bird and the Tree ¦ Our Baby ¦ Dressing Up ¦ The Loose Tooth ¦ People in Stories ¦ Fire! ¦ Old Houses ¦ The Football Book ¦ Crocodiles are Dangerous

  • Sand Cake
    Frank Asch

  • Crazy Charlie
    Ruth Brown

  • Each Peach Pear Plum
    Janet Ahlberg
    Allan Ahlberg

Ages 5-8

  • Good Morning, Chick
    Mirra Ginsburg

  • Tilly's Rescue
    Faith Jaques

  • Quest for the Gloop
    Helen Nicoll
    Jan Pieńkowski

  • Animal Games ¦ Animal Tricks ¦ Seasons ¦ Animal Homes ¦ Animal Shapes
    Brian Wildsmith

  • Ben's Trumpet
    Rachel Isadora

  • Funnybones
    Janet Ahlberg
    Allan Ahlberg

  • Worzel Gummidge Goes to the Seaside
    Keith Waterhouse
    Willis Hall

  • The Six Bullerby Children
    Astrid Lindgren

  • The Lost Merbaby and The Wishing Nut Tree
    Margaret Baker

Ages 8-10

  • The Clover Club and the House of Mystery ¦ The Clover Club and the Mystery that Fell out of the Sky
    A D Langholm

  • The Day the Monster Came
    John Gray

  • The Secret Railway
    Elisabeth Beresford

  • The Stained Glass Window
    Penelope Lively

  • Johnny Morris's Animal Story Book ¦ Animal Stories

  • Everyone knows what a Dragon Looks Like
    Jay Williams

  • The Flight of the Magic Clog
    John Noakes

  • Pyewacket and Son
    Rosemary Weir

  • Brinsly's Dream
    Petronella Breinburg

Ages 10-14

  • Spotlight on Ballet
    Ian Woodward

  • How the Countryside was made
    Gordon Winter

  • Collecting Stamps ¦ Collecting Coins
    Neil Grant
    Peter Womersley

  • Collecting Football Programmes
    Phil Shaw

  • Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret ¦ Deenie ¦ Superfudge
    Judy Blume

  • Joe and The Gladiator ¦ The Nipper ¦ Lanky Jones
    Catherine Cookson

  • Twisters

  • The Victors
    John Harris

  • After the First Death
    Robert Cormier

  • Under Goliath
    Peter Carter

  • The Bonny Pit Laddie
    Frederick Grice

  • Catch Colt
    Mary O'Hara

  • The Fox Hole ¦ Over the Top
    Ivan Southall

  • Bridge to Terabithia
    Katherine Paterson

  • Outlaw Red
    Jim Kjelgaard

  • Grange Hill Goes Wild
    Robert Leeson
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