Alternative title: New Books for Boys and Girls
Issue Details: First known date: 1983... no. 89 October 1983 of Reading Time est. 1956 Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia
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Contents

* Contents derived from the , 1983 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Index : October 1982 to July 1983 : No. 85 to No. 88, Hilery Belton , Beverley Payne , Winsome Plumb , single work index
Index to Reading Time nos. 85 - 88, October 1982 - July 1983
(p. supplement)
Why Write for Children? -- Some Misconceptions and Some Truths, Christobel Mattingley , single work criticism (p. 9-11)
Children's Book of the Year Award, 1983 : A Judge's Report by Students at The Geelong College, Victoria, single work criticism
Eight students, Simon Chalmers, Naomi Druce, Sophie Gebhart, Michaela Manwaring, Sean Milne, Campbell Moody, Tim Neal and Andrew Rutherford argued and decided from the 1983 shortlisted books a winner and three runners-up for the Book of the Year Award. Their report was compiled before the announcement of the Children's Book Council of Australia's 1983 winners.
(p. 12-14)
Untitled, Eleanor Stodart , single work review
— Review of One Hungry Spider Jeannie Baker , 1982 single work picture book ;
(p. 16) Section: Picture Books
Untitled, Ann Young , single work review
— Review of The Sparrow's Story : At the King's Command Judith Crabtree , 1983 single work picture book ;
(p. 18) Section: Picture Books
Untitled, Halina Nowicka , single work review
— Review of The Magic Firesticks Percy Trezise , Dick Roughsey , 1983 single work picture book ;
(p. 29) Section: picture Books
Untitled, Lauren Harman , single work review
— Review of Possum Magic Mem Fox , 1983 single work picture book ;
(p. 31) Section: Picture Books
Untitled, Laurie Copping , single work review
— Review of Fall of a Clown Thurley Fowler , 1982 single work children's fiction ;
(p. 46) Section: Off and Away
Untitled, Joyce Fardell , single work review
— Review of The Left Overs Eleanor Spence , 1982 single work children's fiction ;
(p. 49) Section: Off and Away
Untitled, John Cohen , single work review
— Review of The Undercover Secret Colin Thiele , 1982 single work children's fiction ;
(p. 49) Section: Off and Away
Untitled, Ann Young , single work review
— Review of Kid's Times 1982 periodical (1 issues);
(p. 60) Section: Collections
Untitled, Peg Goode , single work review
— Review of The Fed Up Family Album : poems Doug MacLeod , 1983 selected work poetry ;
(p. 61) Section: Collections
Untitled, Carol Mills , single work review
— Review of A Letter from Sydney : Being a Long Epistle from Ray Lindsay to His Brother Jack Relating Mainly to Their Lives in Sydney in the Nineteen-twenties Raymond Lindsay , 1983 single work biography correspondence autobiography ;
(p. 73) Section: Of Professional Interest
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