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Download Bfk 16 September 1982 •vi • m 1 m «M* wtmmmmmmmmmmmammm2 BOOKS FOR KEEPS No. 16 SEPTEMBER 1982 Special Announcement for can be obtained on subscription by sending a cheque or all Books for Keeps readers postal order to the Subscription Secretary, SBA, 1 Effingham Road, Lee, London SE12 8NZ. Tel: 01-852 4953 Annual subscription for six issues: £5.00 UK, £8.00 overseas. Single copies direct from the SBA: 85p UK, £1.35 overseas. Or use the Dial-a-Sub service on 01-852 4953. Editorial correspondence: In the November issue of Extra! can be sold on or given away to Pat Triggs children through your school bookshop, in 36 Ravenswood Road Books for Keeps we are going your library, at your book fair, via your Bristol, Avon, BS6 6BW to publish a special, eight- PTA or in your classroom. It would help us Tel: 0272 49048 enormously if you placed your order (see page, full colour supplement below for details) in advance — to give us Subscriptions and advertising: designed for children between an idea of the likely demand and to enable Richard Hill 7 and 13. We're calling it us to despatch your additional copies (you'll 1 Effingham Road be getting one anyway with your November Lee, London, SE12 8NZ issue of Books for Keeps) as soon as EXTRA! possible in November. Tel: 01-852 4953 If you like the sound of Extra!, use the Our purpose is to provide something that special order form with this September copy does for your children what Books for of Books for Keeps now. Keeps does for you — inform, entertain and Prices are as follows: interest about books. Extra! Extra! will feature Raymond Briggs, the Quantity Price per copy author/illustrator, and his characters — Fungus, Father Christmas, Snowman . 5-10 18p There'll be something to do on pop-ups from 11-20 17p Ron van der Meer (you too can be a paper 21-30 16p engineer), something to bend brains from 31-40 15P Johnny Ball, something to ponder from John 41-50 14p Craven, something to (a)muse from Mike Over 50 13P Rosen and Spike Milligan, plus jokes, All prices include postage. Minimum order: riddles, etc. 5 copies. Greek Near Eastern LIBRARY OF Mythology Mythology THE WORLD'S Egyptian Mythology Myths& Scandinavian Legends Mythology Mythology H This library reveals the myths of each culture together with the art forms they have inspired. Beautifully produced and illustrated throughout in colour and black and white, there will be eighteen titles. £6.95 each Now Available: * Greek Mythology * Near Eastern Mythology * Egyptian Mythology *Scandinavian Mythology * African Mythology * Japanese Mythology Published end 1984: Further titles published end 1983: * The World's Myths & Legends * Oceanic Mythology * Indian Mythology * Roman Mythology * North American Indian Mythology * Persian Mythology if Chinese Mythology * Mexican & Central * European Mythology * Christian Mythology American Mythology * Celtic Mythology •k South American Mythology The Hamlyn Group BOOKS FOR KEEPS No. 16 SEPTEMBER 1982 3 Contents EDITOR'S PAGE The Northern Myths 4 Kevin Crossley-Holland invites us to consider our natural heritage September and another school year. Time for something grand, exciting, larger than life. Time for a sense of perspective. Where Gods and Heroes better to find all that than in myths and A short annotated booklist of legends, the theme for this issue of Books northern myths and legends for Keeps. Kevin Crossley-Holland offers a persuasive invitation to the world of the On the wall behind him at the working end Norse myths (page 4). His book for adults of the room hangs a collection of harness for Reviews on the subject (Deutsch and Penguin) makes carriage horses. For twelve years he kept a Current paperbacks fascinating reading. We may be able to look pony in the back garden (the garage was forward to a children's version from Deutsch stable and coach house) and he still has four next year. Meanwhile there are other lovingly restored equipages. Horses were the Hardback Harvest 12 sources to be found on our booklist (page 6). first things he drew and he spent a lot of his Pat Triggs picks books for childhood in the stables in Vauxhall Walk developing readers; Steve Bowles Our cover is from a superb new picture-book version of Beowulf — a real super hero if were he was born. Horses and London's past looks at short story collections ever there was one! Kevin Crossley-Holland fascinate him and on his press he produced and science fiction / and Charles Keeping share the honours in the most beautiful lithographs of old London what appears to have been a collaboration buildings, mostly stables. 'I never exhibit them or sell them. I do them for my own Authorgraph No. 16 14 without communication. Both are very familiar with the story: Kevin Crossley- pleasure.' Brian Wildsmith Holland, an Anglo-Saxon scholar, has done His other work he has to see reproduced in a verse translation and a version for schools books. 'If you saw the originals of The The World of Children's 17 radio; Charles Keeping illustrated Rosemary Highwayman next to the book you'd be Sutcliff s Dragon Slayer. Both have their Books surprised. There's a tremendous amount lost. own ideas about it. You can read how The originals are much richer, much more Part 4: The Production People Keeping approached doing the pictures on powerful, they've got more guts, more page 20. For Kevin Crossley-Holland it's substance. Printing has softened them. The the story of a struggle between good and evil proofs I've seen of Beowulf look better, you Keeping on Illustrating 20 — black and white with no shades of grey Charles Keeping talks about his can see it's richer. And it's the same printer. except perhaps room to feel pity for the Maybe a different man made the plates. I've approach to illustrating books exiled Grendel because, although essentially a great respect for printers but how it's done evil, he is recognisably human and not a does make a difference.' Choosing a Good Book 23 dragon or monster. Jean Bird reports on her research They worked independently but the result is Those were the Days with eleven-plus readers a satisfyingly rich piece of storytelling, verbally and visually. They both will be With both Charles Keeping and Brian discussing the book before an audience at Wildsmith in this issue we've got two Lifeline Library 4 24 the Cheltenham Festival of Literature in legendary figures from our own golden age of picture books. And Brian reminded us of Elaine Moss chooses ten novels October. It should be a fascinating encounter. another, Mabel George, who started it all off at Oxford University Press. 'She was a Sound and Vision 25 visionary. And she knew printing. She was News about books on the large Printing The Highwayman merciless with printers. Look at the early editions of my books. The printing is and small screen As the creator of so many picture books and twice winner of the Kate Greenaway Award, beautiful.' Charles Keeping had quite a lot to contribute Looking back twenty years Brian Wildsmith Talking Point 26 to our exploration of how picture books are remembers it as a time of high idealism. 'We James Riordan ask? 'Where have produced (see World of Children's Books 4, were trying to influence and educate all the folk heroines gone?' The Production People, page 17). We went children's perceptiveness and awareness. to talk to him at home in Bromley and found Something's happened. Somehow it's all him working in his comfortably cluttered slipped away and we're back to little mice in News 28 living room using his printing press as a trousers.' Well Pelican, Brian's new book is desk, and surrounded by the piano, the certainly not that. It's a 64 page (!) picture television set, rows of stuffed dolls made by book of great charm and beauty — and it his daughter and all the paraphernalia of costs less than £5. Those co-editions Mabel family life. 'We've got thirteen rooms in this dreamed up are still paying off. - the magazine of the house but we all seem to end up in this one.' School Bookshop Association Meg and Mog — fading away SEPTEMBER 1982 No. 16 I'm sure Brian Wildsmith would be less concerned about attitudes in books today if ISSN: 0143-909X he spent some time with people like Jan Editor: Pat Triggs Pierikowski and Jim Riordan (see page 26) Designer: Alec Davis who care very much. It was seeing Jan Typesetting by: Curtis Typesetting, buying up a bunch of badly printed Picture Gloucester Puffins to present to Tony Lacey, the editor Printed by: Surrey Fine Arts, Redhill at Puffins, that made me decide we needed Surrey to visit the Production People. The pages of the Meg and Mog books Jan picked out © School Bookshop Association 1982 ranged from the rich bright shiny red they No. 16 September 1982 were meant to be to a dismal matt pinky brown. The customers at that book event Registered office: learned a lot from the artist himself about National Book League, Book House, what they were supposed to be getting. 45 East Hill, Wandsworth, London SW18. We've also been spending time with another perfectionist, Raymond Briggs. But more about that in November, when we plop up again (Sorry, Fungus). Cover Book Meanwhile don't forget to order lots of On our cover this issue we feature an Extra copies for the kids. You won't regret illustration by Charles Keeping from Beowulf it.
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