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BfK No. 18 - January 1983

Cover Story
On our cover this issue we feature a still from the new BBC TV serial of Robert Westall's The Machine Gunners. There is a new Puffin with a tie-in cover, (0 14 03 0973 X, £1.10). We are most grateful to Puffin for their help in using this picture.

BfK No. 18 Articles

Editorial – January 1983

News and comment from the Editor.

The World of Children's Books: Part 5 – Readerland

In a new landfall we follow in the footsteps of the few who have so far explored...

Lifeline Two: Multi-cultural Books For Children

Judith Elkin introduces a new Lifeline Library series.

Authorgraph No.18: Robert Westall

Robert Westall interviewed by Pat Triggs.

Teenage Fiction Award

A report on the Young Observer/Rank prize.

Teenage Fiction - another uninspired year

An alternative view of 1982 from Steve Bowles.

Sound & Vision - January 1983

News and views about books on TV and in films.

Meet the Borribles

and their creator, Michael de Larrabeiti.

Getting Going with Poetry

The pick of recent anthologies.

BfK News - January 1983

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

All Children's Book Reviews in BfK No. 18

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

Under 5s

  • Paddington Goes Shopping ¦ Paddington at the Circus

    Michael Bond
  • Alfie Gets in first

    Shirley Hughes
  • Tim Mouse

    Judy Brook
  • A House is a House for Me

    Mary Ann Hoberman

Ages 5-8

  • Professor Branestawm's Pocket Motor Car

    Norman Hunter
  • Toby's Millions

    Morris Lurie
  • Littlenose the Marksman

    John Grant
  • Warton and the King of the Skies

    Russell Erickson
  • Bobby Brewster's Shadow

    H E Todd
  • Wayfarers All

    Kenneth Grahame
  • Tiggers Don't Climb Trees ¦ Piglet Does a Very Good Thing ¦ Eeyore Finds the Wolery

    A A Milne
  • Pigwig and the Pirates

    John Dyke
  • My Ballet Class

    Rachel Isadora

Ages 8-10

  • Goodnight Stories

    Meryl Doney
  • Scottish Folk Tales

    Ruth Manning-Sanders
  • MacPherson's Highland Fling

    Lavinia Derwent
  • Evil Eye

    Nicholas Fisk
  • Winged Magic

    Barbara Sleigh
  • George's Marvellous Medicine

    Roald Dahl

Ages 10-14

  • Nothing to be Afraid of

    Jan Mark
  • Alien Worlds

  • A Rag, a Bone and Hank of Hair

    Nicholas Fisk
  • Another Fine Mess

    Jan Needle
  • Mill Green on Stage

    Alison Prince
  • Mog and The Rectifier

    Chris Powling
  • The Tomorrow City

    Monica Hughes
  • Break Point

    Jeremy Burnham
  • The Terror Cubes

    Granville Wilson

Ages 14+

  • An Inch of Candle

    Alison Leonard
  • Ghost in the Water ¦ A Pattern of Roses

    Edward Chitham
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