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BfK No. 99 - July 1996

Cover Story
This month BfK features Jane Ray’s cover for The Twelve Dancing Princesses. We’re particularly delighted to have the opportunity to use this illustration as it enables us to say HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Orchard Books - they’re 10 this year! And also to thank them for their help in producing our July cover.

BfK No. 99 Articles

Editorial – July 1996

News and comment from the Editor.
Puppy Dogs’ Tales...

George Hunt meets Paul Jennings and Gary Paulsen.
Blue Bananas... The First Bunch

Gill Roberts on new additions to the popular Banana Books series.
Authorgraph No.99: Malorie Blackman

Malorie Blackman interviewed by Stephanie Nettell.
A Blooming Good Read - Ten Years of Orchard Books

David Morton celebrates the anniversary of a publishing house.
The Reading Scheme Is Dead... Long Live the Reading Scheme?

Annemarie Young on the development of Cambridge Reading.
The ‘F’ Factor

Mike Rouse celebrates the 'short and exciting' book.
Sophie or Sophistry?

Reynold Jones, a professional philosopher, investigates Sophie's World.
BfK Briefing – July 1996

Awards - Jay Heale and Nicholas Tucker report on The Hans Christian Andersen Award and the Carnegie Medal.
Visiting Uncle Albert

Russell Stannard on his 'Uncle Albert' series.

All Children's Book Reviews in BfK No. 99

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

Under 5s

  • Grandpa Comes to Stay
    Rob Lewis

  • Good Night, Sleep Tight
    Penelope Lively

  • Jig, Fig and Mrs Pig
    Peter Hansard

  • Squeaky Cleaners in a Muddle; Squeaky Cleaners in a Hole
    Vivian French
    Anna Currey

  • Look What I've Got
    Anthony Browne

  • The Big-Wide-Mouthed Toad-Frog and other stories; The King with Dirty Feet and other stories

  • Twenty Mini Mysteries You Can Solve
    Dina Anastasio

  • Ketchup on Your Cornflakes?; I went to the Zoopermarket; Don't Put Your Finger in the Jelly, Nelly!
    Nick Sharratt

  • Kipper's Book of Opposites; Kipper's Book of Weather; Kipper's Book of Counting
    Mick Inkpen

  • What's Up the Coconut Tree?; The Show-Off Mouse; The Odd Job Man and the Thousand Mile Boots
    A H Benjamin

  • Tickling Tigers
    Anna Currey

  • Animal Families; Animal Homes
    Colin Threadgall

  • Ten Out of Bed
    Penny Dale

  • So Much
    Trish Cooke

  • First Things First, A Baby's Companion
    Charlotte Voake

  • Ruff
    Jane Hissey

  • Big Fish, Little Fish
    Alan Durant
    Ant Parker

  • A Birthday Cake for Little Bear
    Max Velthuijs

  • Danny's Duck
    June Crebbin

Ages 5-8

  • The Pebble in my Pocket
    Meredith Hooper

  • Giraffes; Sharks
    Steve Parker

  • Levers; Wheel and Cogs
    Caroline Rush

  • The Littlest Dragon
    Margaret Ryan

  • Imagine You Are a Tiger
    Karen Wallace
    Peter Melnyczuk

  • One for Me, One for You
    Rita Phillips Mitchell

  • Mia the Beach Cat
    Wolfram Hanel
    Kirsten Hocker

  • Jake - The Adventures of an Unusual Dog
    Annette Butterworth

  • The Twelve Poodle Princesses
    Jan Pancheri

  • The Pond Year
    Kathryn Lasky

  • Dear Mum, Don't Panic
    Stephen Lewis

  • In Crack Willow Wood
    Sam McBratney

  • Mystery at Winklesea
    Helen Cresswell

  • Baba Yaga

  • Country Tales
    Elizabeth Clark

  • Baby Crow
    John A Rowe

  • Stinkerbell
    J J Murhall

Ages 8-10

  • Grasses
    Catherine Chambers

  • Mapping the Unknown
    Peter Chrisp

  • The Ghost Dog
    Pete Johnson

  • The Emperor's Gruckle Hound
    Kathryn Cave

  • Cybercats
    Garry Kilworth

  • Watch Out for the Giant-Killers!
    Colin McNaughton

  • Spilling the Magic
    Stephen Moore

  • How to Write Really Badly
    Anne Fine

  • The Giant Baby
    Allan Ahlberg

  • Delilah and the Dogspell
    Jenny Nimmo

  • Diggory and the Boa Conductor
    Philippa Gregory

  • Carlos and Little Wolf
    Lesley Harker

  • The True Story of Balto
    Natalie Standiford

  • Morris Macmillipede
    Mick Fitzmaurice
    Satoshi Kitamura

  • Soccer Mad
    Rob Childs
    Aiden Potts

  • My Barmy Aunt Boomerang, The Coolest Act in School
    Roy Apps

  • Ukrainian Folk Tales
    Christina Oparenko

  • Fearsome Tales for Fiendish Kids
    Jamie Rix
    Ross Collins

  • Bonechillers: Teacher Creature
    B R Haynes

  • How to Speak Chimpanzee
    Richard Brassey

Ages 10-14

  • Black and British
    David W Bygott

  • Introducing Gershwin; Introducing Mozart
    Roland Vernon

  • World of Soccer
    Michael Nevin

  • The Olympic Spirit
    Norman Barrett

  • The Norman Conquest
    Peter Chrisp

  • The Pebble in my Pocket
    Meredith Hooper

  • Farm
    Ned Halley

  • Electric Full Stops

  • Who'll Catch the Nightmares?
    Linda Kempton

  • Creepers
    Keith Gray

  • Daughter of Storms
    Louise Cooper

  • The Alibi
    Malcolm Rose

  • The Byzantium Bazaar
    Stephen Elboz

  • Tango's Baby
    Martin Waddell

  • Mr Tucket
    Gary Paulsen

  • Plundering Paradise
    Geraldine McCaughrean

  • Aliens Stole My Dad
    Bruce Coville

  • The Face at the Window
    Vivien Alcock

  • The Beat: Smokescreen
    David Belbin

  • How Could You Do This to Me, Mum?
    Rosie Rushton

  • Give Yourself a Hug
    Grace Nichols

Ages 14+

  • Burning Issues
    Allan Frewin Jones

  • Variations on a Dream
    Bette Paul
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