Home
  • Home
  • Latest Issue
  • Past Issues
  • Authors & Artists
  • Articles
  • Reviews
  • News
  • Forums
  • Search

Books for Keeps 2 - the children's book magazine online

  • View
  • Rearrange

Digital version – browse, print or download

Can't see the preview?
Click here!

How to print the digital edition of Books for Keeps: click on this PDF file link - click on the printer icon in the top right of the screen to print.

BfK Newsletter

Receive the latest news & reviews direct to your inbox!

BfK No. 2 - May 1980

Cover Story
This cover photograph shows parents and teachers Oakdale JMI School, Peterborough... who are actively involved with their children's bookshop. See How to... on page 26.

BfK No. 2 Articles

Editor's Page - May 1980

News and comment from the Editor.
A Comment on the Cuts

Richard Bourne takes an objective look.
Meet Beverley Mathias

Children's Books Officer at the National Book League.
Authorgraph No.2 – Penelope Lively

Penelope Lively interviewed by Pat Triggs.
Talking Point - What do school books mean?

Does what happens in the classroom affect what happens in the library and the bookshop? Are we sabotaging our own efforts to create enthusiastic readers?
Be Our Guest...

Steve Bowles reviews lower secondary books.
Vikings

Beverley Mathias offers some advice on how to cope with a Viking invasion.
How To... Turn a Bookshop into a Bridge

Ideas for parent involvement.
BfK News - May 1980

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

News and views about books on radio, TV and in films.
Willard Price

A look at the novels of Willard Price.
What's the book that worked best this year for you?

All Children's Book Reviews in BfK No. 2

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

Under 5s

  • Jeremy Mouse and Cat
    Althea

  • Tansy's Rescue ¦ Eeyore and the Broken Collar
    Elisabeth D Svendsen

  • The Magic Tree and the Flyaway Birds ¦ The Magic Tree and the Missing Acorn
    Hannah E Glease

  • Benjamin and the Box ¦ Benjamin Bounces Back ¦ Benjamin's Dreadful Dream
    Alan Baker

  • The Snowball
    Barbara Sleigh

  • The Enormous Turnip ¦ Rapunzel ¦ Ananse and the Sky God ¦ Wizard of Oz

  • Frog and Toad Together ¦ Little Chief ¦ Albert the Albatross ¦ A Kiss for Little Bear ¦ Tell Me Some More ¦ No Funny Business
    Arnold Lobel

  • One Panda
    Betty Youngs

Ages 5-8

  • Charlie, Emma and Alberic ¦ Oh Really, Rabbit!
    Margaret Greaves

  • The Ice Place
    Robert Swindells

  • Going to the Zoo Zoo for Sale ¦ Birds ¦ Birds from Africa ¦ Space Travel ¦ The Space Monster ¦ Cars ¦ The Red Racing Car ¦ Airport ¦ Flight into Danger

  • Look What I've Got!
    Anthony Browne

  • Velvet Paws and Whiskers
    Jean Chapman

  • A Treeful of Pigs
    Arnold Lobel

  • Mrs Fox's wedding

  • The Grape That Ran Away
    William Stobbs

  • Once in a Wood
    Eve Rice

Ages 8-10

  • The Reindeer and the Drum
    Rosalind Kerven

  • Marvello Simpson and the Lost Uncle
    Mary Sullivan

  • The Ghost and Bertie Boggin
    Catherine Sefton

  • The Voyage of QV66
    Penelope Lively

  • Whispering in the Wind
    Alan Marshall

  • Rebel on a Rock
    Nina Bawden

  • Harold and Bella, Jammy and I
    Robert Leeson

  • The Pinballs
    Betsy Byars

  • The Terrible Kidnapping of Cyril Bonhamy ¦ The Spy and the Mission of Staggering Importance ¦ Who Got Rid of Angus Flint? ¦ The Deadly Gang
    Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy

  • The Case of the Missing Masterpiece
    Terrance Dicks

  • Kings of Space
    Captain W E Johns

  • Goldenrod
    Jim Slater

  • The Battle of Bubble and Squeak
    Philippa Pearce

  • Help! I Am a Prisoner in a Toothpaste Factory ¦ The Boy with Illuminated Measles
    John Antrobus

  • Professor Branestawm Round the Bend
    Norman Hunter

  • The Fox Busters
    Dick King-Smith

  • Beyond the Midnight Mountains
    Frank Charles

  • Amazing Maisie
    Andro Linklater

  • The Seagull
    Penelope Farmer

  • Mr Bat's Great Invention
    Christine Nostlinger

  • Kipper's Turn
    Marjorie Darke

  • Long Ago When the Earth was Flat

Ages 10-14

  • Growing Up in the Fifties ¦ Growing Up in the Swinging Sixties
    Jeremy Pascall

  • A Star for the Latecomer
    Bonnie Zindel
    Paul Zindel

  • Goodbye Day
    Olive Dehn

  • The Shadow Guests
    Joan Aiken

  • A Rag, a Bone and a Hand of Hair
    Nicholas Fisk

  • The Keeper of the Isis Light
    Monica Hughes

  • The Power of Hoodoo
    Steve Bowles

  • A Candle in her Room
    Ruth M Arthur

  • The Guizer
    Alan Garner

  • The Summer of the Swans
    Betsy Byars

Ages 14+

  • Mods!

  • Dandelion Clocks
    Alfred Bradley
    Kay Jamieson

  • What About Tomorrow?
    Ivan Southall

  • Postmarked the Stars
    Andre Norton

  • No End to Yesterday
    Shelagh Macdonald

  • Collision Course
    Nigel Hinton
  • About us
  • Contact us
  • Help/FAQ
  • My Account