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BfK No. 1 - March 1980

Cover Story
The first issue of Books for Keeps ever published! But we couldn't afford full-colour!  Illustration from The Enormous Crocodile by Roald Dahl, picture by Quentin Blake. Published by Joanathon Cape and Puffin Books.

BfK No. 1 Articles

Welcome to Books for Keeps!
Editorial - March 1980

News and comment from the Editor.
The Importance of Stories

Richard Hill invites you to reflect.
Authorgraph No.1: Quentin Blake

Quentin Blake interviewed by Pat Triggs.
Talking Point - Is our reading scheme really necessary?

Do some of the things done in schools, primary and secondary, actually discourage children from seeing books and reading in a positive way?
How to - keep the interest going

Getting started in a school bookshop is one thing; keeping going is quite another. What is the secret of the thriving bookshop? There's no one simple answer to that - but in this issue there are some clues.
Be Our Guest...

Reviews from school bookshops.
BfK News - March 1980

News about what's happening in the children's book world.
Sound & Vision - March 1980

News and views about books on radio, TV and in films.
Doing something with the Grange Hill Kids

Robert Leeson talks about his latest book.
The School Bookshop Association Revamped

Pat Triggs and Richard Hilll outline new thinking about the School Bookshop Association.

All Children's Book Reviews in BfK No. 1

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

Under 5s

  • The Aardvark Who Wasn't Sure
    Jill Tomlinson

  • The Adventures of Badger's Set
    Emil Pacholek

  • The Mother Goose Treasury
    Raymond Briggs

  • Come Back Stork
    Patricia Gray

  • Mrs. Wobble the Waitress and Mr. Biff the Boxer ¦ Mrs. Plug the Plumber and Mr. Cosmo the Conjuror ¦ Miss Jump the Jockey and Master Salt the Sailor's Son
    Allan Ahlberg
    Janet Ahlberg

  • Dragons, Witches, Giants
    Christopher Rawson
    Stephen Cartwright

  • Cannonball Simp
    John Burningham

Ages 5-8

  • Penny and the Captain
    Jane Breskin Zalben

  • A Skeleton in the Cupboard
    Nicholas Tucker

  • A Nice Day Out
    Dick Cate

  • Mrs Vinegar
    Simon Stern

  • Grasshopper on the Road
    Arnold Lobel

  • Fairy Tales
    Alison Uttley

  • The Little Girl and the Tiny Doll
    Edward Ardizzone
    Aingelda Ardizzone

  • It's Too Frightening for Me!
    Shirley Hughes

  • The Rocking Horse Secret
    Rumer Godden

  • Tim in Danger, Tim to the Lighthouse
    Edward Ardizzone

  • Squirrels
    Brian Wildsmith

  • Cannonball Simp
    John Burningham

Ages 8-10

  • Bobby Brewster's Potato
    H E Todd

  • The Runaway Serf
    Geoffrey Trease

  • The Giant at the Ford
    Ursula Synge

  • The Fattest Dwarf of Nosegay
    Paul Biegel

  • Ramona and her Mother
    Beverly Cleary

  • Bored - Nothing to Do
    Peter Spier

  • The Anti-Colouring Book
    Susan Striker
    Edward Kimmel

  • Charmed Life
    Diana Wynne Jones

  • Earthquake
    Andrew Salkey

  • Beware of this Shop
    Carol Beach York

  • Jill Graham and the Secret of the Silent Pool ¦ Jill Graham and the Adventure of the Man Who Vanished ¦ Nancy Drew: The Clue in the Crumbling Wall ¦ The Hardy Boys: The Secret of the Old Mill
    Lesley Chase

Ages 10-14

  • The Good Master and The Singing Tree (its sequel)
    Kate Seredy

  • Daddy Long-Legs
    Jean Webster

  • Wounded Knee
    Dee Brown

  • The Fledglings
    John Harris

  • The Mist Lizard
    Marc Alexander

  • Life with Lisa
    Sybil Burr

  • The Ghost Diviners
    Elisabeth Mace

  • East of Midnight
    Tanith Lee

  • The Night Watch
    Jenny Overton

  • Olympics 1980
    Norman Barrett

  • The Pocket Calculator
    L R Carter
    E Huzan

  • New Mathematics
    L C Pascoe

  • Fun with Numbers
    Michael Holt

  • Think of a Number
    Johnny Ball

  • Keep Running
    Margaret Storey

  • Grange Hill Rules OK?
    Robert Leeson

  • The Ravelled Thread
    John Lucarotti

  • Philip Hall Likes Me. I Reckon Maybe
    Bette Greene

  • My Mate Shofiq
    Jan Needle

  • Conrad's War
    Andrew Davies

  • Penny's Way
    Mary K Harris

Ages 14+

  • Tex
    S E Hinton

  • New Patches for Old
    Christobel Mattingley

  • The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    Douglas Adams

  • Song for a Dark Queen
    Rosemary Sutcliff
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